{"id":21827,"date":"2016-08-27T23:18:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T23:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=21827"},"modified":"2016-08-29T18:09:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T18:09:44","slug":"typhoon-lionrock-in-the-west-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/21827","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Lionrock in the West Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Track<\/a>

Track of Typhoon Lionrock [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Typhoon Lionrock (12W) in the West Pacific Ocean briefly intensified to Category 4<\/strong><\/a> during the northeastward motion segment of its rather unusual track (above)<\/strong><\/em> — the intensity estimate from the Advanced Dvorak Technique<\/strong><\/a> peaked at 112.4 knots from 2140 UTC on 26 August to 0630 UTC on 27 August (plot<\/strong><\/a> | text<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n

During this period of intensification, 2.5 minute interval rapid-scan Himawari-8 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images (below; <\/strong>also available as a large 85 Mbyte animated<\/strong><\/a> GIF<\/strong><\/a>)<\/em> revealed complex patterns of cloud-top radial and transverse banding. Surface mesoscale vortices were also seen at times within the open eye feature.<\/p>\n

\"Himawari-8<\/a>

Himawari-8 0.64 \u00b5m Visible (top) and 10.4 \u00b5m Infrared Window (bottom) images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>A few hours later, the Category 3 intensity typhoon continued to exhibit a well-defined eye structure in both DMSP-15 SSMI Microwave (85 GHz) and Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images around 18 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"DMSP-15<\/a>

DMSP-15 SSMI Microwave (85 GHz) and Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>During the nighttime hours preceding the intensification to Category 4, a comparison of Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images (below; <\/strong>courtesy<\/em> of William Straka, SSEC)<\/strong><\/em> showed the eye of Lionrock at 1631 UTC on 26 August.<\/p>\n

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n

===== 28 August Update =====<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Himawari-8<\/a>

Himawari-8 0.64 \u00b5m Visible (top) and 10.4 \u00b5m Infrared Window (bottom) images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>Typhoon Lionrock again intensified to a Category 4 storm on 28 August; a comparison of 2.5 minute interval rapid-scan Himawari-8 Visible (0.64\u00a0\u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.4\u00a0\u00b5m) images is shown above (also available as a large 68 Mbyte animated GIF<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Typhoon Lionrock (12W) in the West Pacific Ocean briefly intensified to Category 4 during the northeastward motion segment of its rather unusual track (above) — the intensity estimate from the Advanced Dvorak Technique peaked at 112.4 knots from 2140 UTC on 26 August to 0630 UTC on 27 August (plot | text). During this period […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":21829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,62,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dmsp","category-himawari-8","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21827"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21846,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21827\/revisions\/21846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}