{"id":24232,"date":"2017-06-26T23:59:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T23:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=24232"},"modified":"2017-06-27T23:34:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T23:34:38","slug":"hurricane-dora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/24232","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Dora"},"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\/06\/170626_goes16_visible_infrared_Hurricane_Dora_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/06\/958x638_GOES16A_B213_G16_VIS_IR_DORA_26JUN2017_2017178_000719_0002PANELS.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div><em>** GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing **<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2017\/DORA.shtml?\"><strong>Dora<\/strong><\/a> became the first hurricane of the Eastern Pacific 2017 season on 26 June, and was also the first hurricane to be sampled by GOES-16. On Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/education\/docs\/ABI-bands-FS\/ABI%20Fact%20Sheet%20Band%202.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Infrared Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/education\/docs\/ABI-bands-FS\/ABI_Band_13_FS_CLEAN_LW_IR_FINAL.pdf\"><strong>10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images<em><strong> (above),<\/strong> <\/em>Dora displayed an improving appearance as the day progressed &#8212; mesovortices were seen within the eye on Visible imagery, while the overall eye\/eyewall structure improved as the eye diameter increased on Infrared Window imagery.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the morning, a comparison between DMSP-17 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) and GOES-15 Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m) images from the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed\u00a0 that a well-defined eye was more apparent on microwave imagery. Dora was moving over fairly warm <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/06\/170625_2235utc_Dora_sst.jpeg\"><strong>Sea Surface Temperatures<\/strong><\/a>, and was also in an environment characterized by low values of <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/06\/170626_goes15_visible_wind_shear_Dora_anim.gif\"><strong>deep-layer wind shear<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/06\/170626_1315utc_goes15_infrared_dmsp17_ssmis_microwave_Dora_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/06\/170626_1315utc_goes15_infrared_dmsp17_ssmis_microwave_Dora_anim.gif\" alt=\"DMSP-17 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) and GOES-15 Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"509\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">DMSP-17 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) and GOES-15 Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>** GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational data and are undergoing testing ** Dora became the first hurricane of the Eastern Pacific 2017 season on 26 June, and was also the first hurricane to be sampled by GOES-16. On Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images (above), Dora displayed an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":24234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,43,74,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dmsp","category-goes-15","category-goes-16","category-satellite-winds","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24232","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=24232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24260,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24232\/revisions\/24260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}