{"id":25,"date":"2006-08-31T21:01:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T21:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2006\/08\/31\/goes-13-data-during-eclipse-period\/"},"modified":"2009-03-04T20:06:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T20:06:46","slug":"goes-13-data-during-eclipse-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/25","title":{"rendered":"GOES-13: Data during eclipse period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the important changes made to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osd.noaa.gov\/GOES\/goes_n.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GOES-N\/O\/P<\/strong><\/a> series of satellites is the addition of increased onboard battery capacity to enable the satellites to continue to provide imager and sounder data during the Spring and Fall season &#8220;eclipse periods&#8221;. During these eclipse periods (which can last 1-3 hours), the GOES satellites are in the Earth&#8217;s shadow, so their solar panels cannot provide power to all of the satellite instrument payloads.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a comparison of GOES-12 and <a title=\"GOES-13\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/g13_report\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GOES-13<\/strong><\/a> 10.7 micrometer IR (&#8220;IR window&#8221;) data, showing convective rain bands associated with <a title=\"Ernesto\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic\/real-time\/atlantic\/storm\/HURPLOT2.GIF\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tropical Storm Ernesto<\/strong><\/a>. At 04:02 UTC <em><strong>(below, left)<\/strong><\/em>, one of the rain bands (with cloud top temperatures of -60 to -70 C, denoted by the red to black color enhancement) is moving inland across southeastern Georgia with light rain begining along the coast at Brunswick. However, no GOES-12 images are available between 04:15 UTC <em><strong>(below, right)<\/strong><\/em> and 06:15 UTC, a period when this particular convection was exhibiting a trend of cooling cloud top temperatures. A <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/misc\/blog\/060831_g12_g13_ir4.mov\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>QuickTime animation<\/strong><\/a> (22 images, 5.2 MB file size) shows that GOES-13 IR data was available during this ~2 hour eclipse period, allowing the cloud top temperature trends of these convective rain bands to be monitored continuously.<br \/>\n<a title=\"GOES-12 \/ GOES-13 IR (pre-eclipse)\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/08\/060831_g12_g13_ir4_8.GIF\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image24\" title=\"GOES-12\/GOES-13 IR images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/08\/060831_g12_g13_ir4_8.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-12\/GOES-13 IR images\" width=\"219\" height=\"165\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><a title=\"GOES-12 \/ GOES-13 IR (during eclipse)\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/08\/060831_g12_g13_ir4_9.GIF\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image26\" title=\"GOES-12\/GOES-13 IR images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/08\/060831_g12_g13_ir4_9.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-12\/GOES-13 IR images\" width=\"220\" height=\"167\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the important changes made to the GOES-N\/O\/P series of satellites is the addition of increased onboard battery capacity to enable the satellites to continue to provide imager and sounder data during the Spring and Fall season &#8220;eclipse periods&#8221;. During these eclipse periods (which can last 1-3 hours), the GOES satellites are in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-13","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","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=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}