{"id":23628,"date":"2017-04-04T18:59:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T18:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=23628"},"modified":"2017-04-06T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T15:00:34","slug":"fogstratus-dissipation-1-minute-goes-16-vs-15-30-minute-goes-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23628","title":{"rendered":"Fog\/stratus dissipation: 1-minute GOES-16 vs 15-30 minute GOES-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/04\/170404_goes16_goes13_visible_fog_AL_GA_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/04\/G16_G13_VIS_WXS_AL_04APR2017_958x638_B21_00033_2017094_121856_0002PANELS.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 0.64 \u00b5m Visible (left) and GOES-13 0.63 \u00b5m Visible (right) images, with surface reports of fog plotted in yellow [click to play animation] \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Visible (0.64\u00b5m, left) and GOES-13 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m, right) images, with surface reports of fog plotted in yellow [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div><em>** The GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing. **<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Widespread fog and stratus had developed across southern Alabama and western Georgia during the pre-dawn hours on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20170404.html\"><strong>04 April 2017<\/strong><\/a>. After sunrise, a comparison of 1-minute interval GOES-16 and 15-30 minute interval GOES-13 visible imagery <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> demonstrated the advantage of more frequent scans to monitor the dissipation of fog and stratus. The improved spatial resolution of the GOES-16 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/education\/docs\/ABI-bands-FS\/ABI%20Fact%20Sheet%20Band%202.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;Red visible&#8221; band &#8212; 0.5 km at satellite sub-point, vs 1 km for GOES-13 &#8212; also aided in the detection of smaller-scale river valley fog features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>** The GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing. ** Widespread fog and stratus had developed across southern Alabama and western Georgia during the pre-dawn hours on 04 April 2017. After sunrise, a comparison of 1-minute interval GOES-16 and 15-30 minute interval GOES-13 visible imagery (above) demonstrated the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fog-detection","category-goes-13","category-goes-16"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23628","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=23628"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23666,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23628\/revisions\/23666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}