{"id":28394,"date":"2018-06-06T18:09:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T18:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=28394"},"modified":"2018-06-07T10:49:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T10:49:24","slug":"why-mesoscale-sectors-matter-tropical-storm-aletta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/28394","title":{"rendered":"Why Mesoscale Sectors matter:  Tropical Storm Aletta"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28395\" style=\"width: 611px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/ABIG16Band02_MESO_1422_1741anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28395\" class=\"wp-image-28395\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/ABIG16Band02_MESO_1422_1741anim-768x706.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/ABIG16Band02_MESO_1422_1741anim-768x706.gif 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/ABIG16Band02_MESO_1422_1741anim-300x276.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) Imagery, 1422-1741 UTC on 6 June 2018 (Click to animate)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The first Tropical Storm, Aletta, of the eastern Pacific Ocean basin has been named. One-minute imagery from a moveable Mesoscale Sector, above as an animated gif (or <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/ABIG16Band02_MESO_1422_1741anim.mp4\">here<\/a> as an mp4), shows a distinct low-or mid-level circulation center moving out from under higher clouds in the northeast quadrant of the storm at about <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/ABIG16Band02_MESO2-20180606_162131.png\">1621 UTC<\/a>, being even more obvious at <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/ABIG16Band02_MESO2-20180606_163631.png\">1636 UTC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The GOES-16 CONUS Sector scans at 5-minute intervals. The southern boundary of the CONUS sector (15\u00ba N Latitude), however, bisects this tropical storm, <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/ABIG16Band02_CONUS-20180606_152231.png\">as shown at this link<\/a>, and is therefore unhelpful for center diagnostics. Full Disk imagery captures the storm evolution at a 15-minute time step that is too coarse to provide a smooth animation. (Just two years ago, the time resolution for this storm formation would have been every 3 hours, as that was the time cadence for a Full Disk from GOES-13! GOES-16 really is life-changing for those who view satellite animations.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Tropical Storm, Aletta, of the eastern Pacific Ocean basin has been named. One-minute imagery from a moveable Mesoscale Sector, above as an animated gif (or here as an mp4), shows a distinct low-or mid-level circulation center moving out from under higher clouds in the northeast quadrant of the storm at about 1621 UTC, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":28398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28394","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28394"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28415,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28394\/revisions\/28415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}