{"id":28863,"date":"2018-07-10T21:49:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T21:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=28863"},"modified":"2018-07-11T13:16:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T13:16:07","slug":"hurricane-chris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/28863","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Chris"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, left)<\/em> and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m, right)<\/em> images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed Chris as it rapidly intensified (ADT<\/strong><\/a> | SATCON<\/strong><\/a>) to a Category 1 Hurricane by 2100 UTC (NHC discussion<\/strong><\/a>) on 10 July 2018.<\/p>\n

A toggle between 375-meter resolution NOAA-20 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures as cold as -81\u00baC (violet enhancement)<\/em> in a convective burst just northeast of the eye. [Note: the 1821 UTC NOAA-20<\/strong><\/a> images are incorrectly labeled as Suomi NPP images]<\/p>\n

\"NOAA-20<\/a>

NOAA-20 VIIRS Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Earlier in the day, a GPM satellite GMI Microwave (85 GHz) image from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that Tropical Storm Chris had not yet formed a closed eye at 1326 UTC.<\/p>\n

\"GPM<\/a>

GPM GMI Microwave (85 GHz)<\/em> image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>However, a MIMIC-TC<\/strong><\/a> animation spanning the 0000 to 1925 UTC time period (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the eye formation process completing as the estimated maximum speed (Vmax) increased from 60 to 75 knots.<\/p>\n

\"MIMIC-TC<\/a>

MIMIC-TC morphed microwave image product [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images (above) showed Chris as it rapidly intensified (ADT | SATCON) to a Category 1 Hurricane by 2100 UTC (NHC discussion) on 10 July 2018. A toggle between 375-meter resolution NOAA-20 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":28871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,79,78,47,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-microwave","category-noaa-20","category-other-satellites","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28863","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=28863"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28880,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28863\/revisions\/28880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}