{"id":27566,"date":"2018-03-27T23:59:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T23:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=27566"},"modified":"2018-03-30T15:27:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:27:46","slug":"stable-boundary-layer-roll-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/27566","title":{"rendered":"Stable boundary layer roll clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<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\/2018\/03\/180327_goes16_visible_AL_MS_GA_TN_stable_air_gravity_waves_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/960x1280_AGOES16_B2_G16_VIS_WAVES_MS_AL_TN_27MAR2018_2018086_210219_0001PANEL.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 &quot;Red&quot; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images, with hourly surface observations plotted in yellow [click to play MP4 animation | Animated GIF also available]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible<em> (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly surface observations plotted in yellow [click to play MP4 animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/180327_goes16_visible_AL_MS_GA_TN_stable_air_gravity_waves_anim.gif\"><strong>Animated GIF<\/strong><\/a> also available]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16<em> (GOES-East)<\/em> &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) imagery<em><strong> (above)<\/strong> <\/em>showed the formation of widespread stable boundary layer roll clouds across parts of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20180327.html\"><strong>27 March 2018<\/strong><\/a>. With a relatively cool and stable boundary layer across the region, the gradual southwesterly return flow of moisture immediately above the surface\u00a0<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> led to the development of these wave cloud features.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/180327_KBMX_RAOBS.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/180327_KBMX_RAOBS.GIF\" alt=\"Birmingham, Alabama rawinsonde reports [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Birmingham, Alabama rawinsonde reports [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/180327_KJAN_RAOBS.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/180327_KJAN_RAOBS.GIF\" alt=\"Jackson, Mississippi rawinsonde reports [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackson, Mississippi rawinsonde reports [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; GOES-16 (GOES-East) &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) imagery (above) showed the formation of widespread stable boundary layer roll clouds across parts of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee on 27 March 2018. With a relatively cool and stable boundary layer across the region, the gradual southwesterly return flow of moisture immediately above the surface\u00a0 (below) led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":27568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27566","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=27566"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27574,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27566\/revisions\/27574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}