{"id":299,"date":"2006-12-07T23:50:36","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T23:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2006\/12\/07\/goes-13-first-day-of-post-launch-science-test\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T18:11:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T18:11:50","slug":"goes-13-first-day-of-post-launch-science-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/299","title":{"rendered":"GOES-13: First Day of Post-Launch NOAA Science Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"GOES-13 visible channel image\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/061207_g13_vis_les_121.GIF\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" align=\"middle\" title=\"GOES-13 visible channel image\" id=\"image297\" alt=\"GOES-13 visible channel image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/061207_g13_vis_les_121.GIF\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"07 December 2006 daily weather map\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20061207.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>07 December 2006<\/strong><\/a> was the first day of the <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"GOES-13 Science Test\" href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/projects\/goes%5Fn\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>GOES-13 post-launch NOAA science test<\/strong><\/a>. The satellite was placed into Rapid Scan Operations mode, to monitor the development of lake-effect snow (LES) bands across the Great Lakes region. GOES-13 visible channel imagery <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> depicted well-defined, persistent LES bands that had developed over Lake Huron (<a title=\"Exeter ONT radar image\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/061207_1920_cwso_radar.gif\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Exeter, Ontario radar<\/strong><\/a>) and Georgian Bay (<a title=\"King City ONT radar image\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/061207_1920_cwrk_radar.gif\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>King City, Ontario radar<\/strong><\/a>)  &#8212; a <a title=\"GOES-13 visible animation (Java applet)\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/061207_g13_vis_1.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Java animation of GOES-13 visible images<\/strong><\/a>  shows these LES bands moving inland over southeastern Ontario, where they produced  18-35 inches of snow  <em>(including 12 inches in a 3 hour period)<\/em> in what was one of the worst snowstorms in nearly 3 decades for <a title=\"London Free Press news article\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/lfpress.ca\/newsstand\/CityandRegion\/2006\/12\/09\/2703402-sun.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>London, Ontario<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\nGOES-13 visible images centered farther to the south <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed  a particularly long LES band that was moving off  Lake Michigan and drifting southeastward across southwestern lower Michigan, northeastern Indiana, and southwestern Ohio (<a title=\"GOES-13 visible animation (Java applet)\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/061207_g13_vis_2.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Java animation<\/strong><\/a>). This LES band deposited as much as 11 inches of new snow in southwestern Michigan, with 5-6 inches falling farther downstream in parts of northeastern Indiana. A <a title=\"GOES-13 visible image (08 Dec 2006)\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/061208_g13_vis_les_in_1.GIF\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>GOES-13 visible image from the following morning<\/strong><\/a> shows several narrow streaks of snow cover (oriented northwest to southeast across Indiana and Ohio), many of which were left by the LES bands seen on 07 December.<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"GOES-13 visible channel image\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/061207_g13_vis_les_in_121.GIF\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"486\" height=\"366\" align=\"middle\" title=\"GOES-13 visible channel image\" id=\"image298\" alt=\"GOES-13 visible channel image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/061207_g13_vis_les_in_121.GIF\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>07 December 2006 was the first day of the GOES-13 post-launch NOAA science test. The satellite was placed into Rapid Scan Operations mode, to monitor the development of lake-effect snow (LES) bands across the Great Lakes region. GOES-13 visible channel imagery (above) depicted well-defined, persistent LES bands that had developed over Lake Huron (Exeter, Ontario [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-13","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","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=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55499,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/55499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}