{"id":2525,"date":"2009-05-08T06:56:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T06:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2009-05-10T02:23:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T02:23:13","slug":"mountain-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/2525","title":{"rendered":"Mountain waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/05\/090508_modis_goes_wv_anim.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MODIS 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m and GOES-12 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/05\/090508_modis_goes_wv_anim.gif\" alt=\"MODIS 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m and GOES-12 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images\" width=\"479\" height=\"458\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m and GOES-12 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m &quot;water vapor channel&quot; images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m and the 4-km resolution GOES-12 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m &#8220;water vapor channel&#8221; images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> demonstrate the advantage of better spatial resolution for the detection of small-scale features such as the mountain waves that had formed over much of New Mexico and the adjacent states on <a title=\"08 May 2009 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20090508.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>08 May 2009<\/strong><\/a>. A small amount of parallax shift is also evident on the GOES-12 image, with the features being displaced slightly to the northwest.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of mountain waves implies the potential for turbulence <em>(especially when the wave patterns interfere, as they do in this particular case)<\/em> &#8212; however, very few aircraft were flying in the area at that hour, and there was only one pilot report of light turbulence at 36,000 feet near the Arizona\/New Mexico border.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/05\/Pirep_Turb_260-500_20090508_0500.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MODIS water vapor image + pilot reports\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/05\/Pirep_Turb_260-500_20090508_0500.png\" alt=\"MODIS watr vapor image + pilot reports\" width=\"480\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS water vapor image + pilot reports<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m and the 4-km resolution GOES-12 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m &#8220;water vapor channel&#8221; images (above) demonstrate the advantage of better spatial resolution for the detection of small-scale features such as the mountain waves that had formed over much of New Mexico and the adjacent states on 08 May 2009. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-goes-12","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","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=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2527,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions\/2527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}