{"id":23894,"date":"2017-05-04T22:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T22:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=23894"},"modified":"2017-05-05T20:22:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T20:22:33","slug":"small-eddy-and-coastal-jet-off-the-coast-of-northern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23894","title":{"rendered":"Small Eddy and coastal jet off the coast of Northern California"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) from 1245 through 2200 UTC on 4 May 2017 (Click to play mp4 animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the two GOES-16 Mesoscale Sectors was moved from its default position<\/a> over the eastern United States and placed over the west coast of the United States on 4 May 2017. This allowed 1-minute imagery of a small-scale coastal eddy between Cape Mendocino<\/a> and Pt. St. George<\/a> near Crescent City, above, and an associated coastal jet. (Click here to play 300-meg Animated Gif<\/a>; alternatively, this animation<\/a> shows the eddy from 1600-1900 UTC as displayed in AWIPS (courtesy Dan Miller, WFO DLH))<\/p>\n

A zoomed-in Visible animation of the coastal eddy is shown below; NWS Eureka described<\/a> it as “one of the best examples of these coastal eddies seen in quite a while”.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images, with hourly surface reports plotted in yellow (Click to animate)<\/p><\/div>\n

GOES-16 Visible 0.64 \u00b5m imagery is able to capture not only the eddy, but also the northerly low-level jet that develops off the coast of Cape Mendocino, swiftly moving clouds southward around that feature. A small eddy also develops south of Cape Mendocino. Note also the abundance of cirrus clouds flowing northward along the coast.<\/p>\n

The dimensions of this eddy are approximately 70 km in the along-shore direction and 55 km perpendicular to the shore, yet GOES-16 is able to capture and resolve many small-scale cloud bands. The small cloud band streaming south around Cape Mendocino, for example, is only about 6 km wide and is well-resolved; if GOES-16 becomes GOES-East at 75 W Longitude, this is the type of resolution that can be expected in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that none of the models (including the hourly RTMA<\/a>, below) resolved this eddy feature.<\/p>\n

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) image, with RTMA surface winds {Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

Thanks to Dan Miller, Science and Operations Officer (SOO) in Duluth for calling this awesome feature to our attention!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing. One of the two GOES-16 Mesoscale Sectors was moved from its default position over the eastern United States and placed over the west coast of the United States on 4 May 2017. This allowed 1-minute imagery of a small-scale coastal eddy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":23895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23894","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23894"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23923,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23894\/revisions\/23923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}