{"id":28304,"date":"2018-06-02T22:59:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T22:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=28304"},"modified":"2018-06-04T03:17:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T03:17:44","slug":"turbulence-associated-with-transverse-banding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/28304","title":{"rendered":"Turbulence associated with transverse banding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Check out the transverse banding from WI to TN ahead of the shortwave! Plenty of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/turbulence?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#turbulence<\/a> pireps to go along! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/aviationweather?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#aviationweather<\/a> VIS loop from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CODMeteorology?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CODMeteorology<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YVyxwYJ6Wz\">pic.twitter.com\/YVyxwYJ6Wz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeremy Smith (@WX_Overlord) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WX_Overlord\/status\/1002964051306205185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>GOES-16<em> (GOES-East)<\/em> Near-Infrared &#8220;Cirrus&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band04.pdf\"><strong>1.37 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), Mid-level Water Vapor (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band09.pdf\"><strong>6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Upper-level Water Vapor (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band08.pdf\"><strong>6.2 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the evolution of this transverse banding &#8212; a cloud signature often associated with turbulence &#8212; early in the day on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20180602.html\">02 June 2018<\/a><\/strong>.<\/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\/06\/180602_goes16_cirrus_water_vapor_turbulence_pireps_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/G16_CIRRUS_WATER_VAPOR_PIREPS_TB_02JUN2018_960x427_B498_2018153_171729_0003PANELS_00040.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 Near-Infrared \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Near-Infrared &#8220;Cirrus&#8221;<em> (1.37 \u00b5m, left),<\/em> Mid-level Water Vapor <em>(6.9 \u00b5m, center)<\/em> and Upper-level Water Vapor<em> (6.2 \u00b5m, right)<\/em> images, with hourly pilot reports of turbulence [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>A toggle between 1-km resolution Aqua MODIS Water Vapor (6.7 \u00b5m) and Cirrus (1.37 \u00b5m) images at 1842 UTC is shown below; the transverse banding was beginning to dissipate around that time.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/180602_1848utc_aqua_modis_water_vapor_cirrus_pireps_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/180602_1848utc_aqua_modis_water_vapor_cirrus_pireps_anim.gif\" alt=\"Aqua MODIS Water Vapor (6.7 \u00b5m) and Cirrus (1.37 \u00b5m) images, with pilot reports of turbulence [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aqua MODIS Water Vapor<em> (6.7 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Cirrus<em> (1.37 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with pilot reports of turbulence [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the transverse banding from WI to TN ahead of the shortwave! Plenty of #turbulence pireps to go along! #aviationweather VIS loop from @CODMeteorology pic.twitter.com\/YVyxwYJ6Wz \u2014 Jeremy Smith (@WX_Overlord) June 2, 2018 GOES-16 (GOES-East) Near-Infrared &#8220;Cirrus&#8221; (1.37 \u00b5m), Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m) and Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 \u00b5m) images (below) showed the evolution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":28306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,21,74,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aqua","category-aviation","category-goes-16","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28304","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=28304"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28316,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28304\/revisions\/28316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}