{"id":24914,"date":"2017-08-30T19:42:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T19:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=24914"},"modified":"2017-09-01T00:54:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T00:54:23","slug":"increase-in-turbidity-near-the-texas-gulf-coast-following-harvey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/24914","title":{"rendered":"Increase in Turbidity near the Texas Gulf Coast following Hurricane Harvey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Terra MODIS True-Color imagery off the Texas Gulf Coast on 23 and 30 August, 2017<\/strong> (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

MODIS Today<\/a> imagery from 23 August<\/a> (pre-Harvey) (cropped<\/a>) and 30 August<\/a> (post-Harvey) (cropped<\/a>), above, show an enormous increase in turbidity in the nearshore waters off the coast of Texas. Further, many of the rivers change their appearance to brown and flooding in the post-Harvey image. (River gauges in flood stage<\/a>; Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n

A similar toggle using Suomi NPP VIIRS Imagery, from this site<\/a>, also from 23 August<\/a> and 30 August<\/a>, is shown below. The increase in turbidity was due to a combination of strong winds and runoff from very heavy rainfall<\/a> associated with the hurricane.<\/p>\n

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Suomi NPP True-Color imagery off the Texas Gulf Coast on 23 and 30 August, 2017<\/strong> (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

Suomi NPP VIIRS Products include a River Flood estimate, developed by Sanmei Li and others at George Mason University. The toggle below from RealEarth<\/a> shows Suomi NPP VIIRS True Color at 1904 UTC<\/a>, and the River Flood Product<\/a> for the same time.<\/p>\n

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Suomi NPP VIIRS True-Color imagery off the Texas Gulf Coast, 1904 UTC on 30 August, 2017, and the Suomi NPP River Flood Product at the same time<\/strong> (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

(Thanks to Bill Taylor and John Stoppkotte, NWS in N. Platte NE, for noting this!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MODIS Today imagery from 23 August (pre-Harvey) (cropped) and 30 August (post-Harvey) (cropped), above, show an enormous increase in turbidity in the nearshore waters off the coast of Texas. Further, many of the rivers change their appearance to brown and flooding in the post-Harvey image. (River gauges in flood stage; Source) A similar toggle using […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":24928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,53,49,71,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heavy-rain-flooding","category-modis","category-real-earth","category-suomi_npp","category-terra","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24914","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=24914"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24968,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24914\/revisions\/24968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}