{"id":26333,"date":"2017-12-14T16:51:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T16:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=26333"},"modified":"2017-12-15T15:31:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T15:31:27","slug":"goes-16-is-on-station-at-75-2ow-ready-to-become-goes-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/26333","title":{"rendered":"GOES-16 is on-station at 75.2\u00baW, ready to soon become GOES-East"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Full-Disk Mid-level Water Vapor images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>* GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing *<\/em><\/p>\n

The GOES-16 satellite finished its eastward drift from the initial check-out position at 89.5\u00ba West longitude, arriving at 75.2\u00ba West on 11 December 2017 — and should officially be declared the operational GOES-East satellite by 20 December<\/strong><\/a>. Shown here are some of the first GOES-16 images that began flowing on 14 December via GOES Rebroadcast (GRB) and the Satellite Broadcast Network (SBN): Full Disk Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) (above)<\/strong><\/em> and “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) (below)<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Similar Full Disk animations of Lower-level (7.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Upper-level (6.2 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) Water Vapor images are available here<\/strong><\/a> and here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Full-Disk Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Taking a closer look at the 15-minute Full Disk Visible imagery (below),<\/strong><\/em> smoke from wildfires burning in Southern California could seen moving a considerable distance to the southwest over the Pacific Ocean. Note that the smoke features became brighter toward sunset — this was due to a more favorable forward scattering<\/em> geometry between the sun, the smoke and the satellite sensors.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>Since the atmospheric column over that region of the Pacific was quite dry (as seen in the Water Vapor imagery), the Near-Infrared “Cirrus” (1.37 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (below)<\/strong><\/em> were able to display a subtle signature of the smoke features — recall that the strength of the 1.37 \u00b5m spectral band is detection of particles that are efficient scatterers of light<\/em> (such as cirrus ice crystals, volcanic ash, dust and smoke).<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Near-Infrared “Cirrus” (1.37 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>The 2 examples below show that GOES-16 CONUS sector coverage and resolution over the western US is still quite good (even with the large satellite viewing angle).<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) image of the southwestern US [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images, showing smoke plumes and thermal signatures of wildfires in Southern California [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A multi-panel image featuring all 16 spectral bands of the GOES-16 ABI<\/strong><\/a> at 1537 UTC is shown below.<\/p>\n

\"Multi-panel<\/a>

Multi-panel images showing all 16 bands of the GOES-16 ABI [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Realtime GOES-16 ABI imagery can be found at: https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/data\/geo\/#\/animation?satellite=goes-16<\/strong><\/a> and https:\/\/re.ssec.wisc.edu\/s\/QFMBi<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing * The GOES-16 satellite finished its eastward drift from the initial check-out position at 89.5\u00ba West longitude, arriving at 75.2\u00ba West on 11 December 2017 — and should officially be declared the operational GOES-East satellite by 20 December. Shown here are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":26356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-16"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26333","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=26333"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26367,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26333\/revisions\/26367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}