{"id":30685,"date":"2018-11-13T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=30685"},"modified":"2018-12-01T22:07:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T22:07:37","slug":"mesoscale-convective-system-in-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/30685","title":{"rendered":"Mesoscale Convective System in Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/11\/181113_goes16_infraredWindow_glm_Argentina_mcs_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/11\/G16_IR_GLM_ARGENTINA_MCS_13NOV2018_2018317_101654_GOES-16_0001PANEL.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window <em>(10.3 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with GLM Groups plotted in cyan\/green [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>In support of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/illinois.edu\/relampago\/home\"><strong>RELAMPAGO-CACTI<\/strong><\/a> field experiment, GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> had a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23225\">Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/a><\/strong> centered over northeastern Argentina on 13 November 2018 &#8212; and 1-minute &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band13.pdf\"><strong>10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images with plots of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/spacesegment\/glm.html\"><strong>GLM<\/strong><\/a> Groups <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed a large and long-lived Mesoscale Convective System moving eastward across <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/11\/181113_1230utc_goes16_infrared_glm_realearth.png\"><strong>far northeastern Argentina<\/strong><\/a> and expanding into southern Paraguay and southeastern Brazil. Note the large amount of lightning in the anvil region far southeast of the core of the convection.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">GLM groups are great, but full flash footprints are fantastic. Here&#8217;s a movie of 13 Nov 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NOAASatellitePA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NOAASatellitePA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/goesglm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@goesglm<\/a> data for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RELAMPAGO2018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RELAMPAGO2018<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MriT3tv9kF\">https:\/\/t.co\/MriT3tv9kF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Bruning (@deeplycloudy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deeplycloudy\/status\/1062546004434661376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/center>The corresponding GOES-16 Infrared animation without lightning data is shown below. Minimum cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures often reached -90\u00baC and colder <em>(yellow pixels embedded within darker violet regions)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/11\/181113_goes16_infraredWindow_Argentina_mcs_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/11\/G16_IR_ARGENTINA_MCS_13NOV2018_2018317_101654_GOES-16_0001PANEL.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 &quot;Clean&quot; Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"639\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window<em> (10.3 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>A comparison of NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images using <a href=\"https:\/\/re.ssec.wisc.edu\/s\/SXLTu\"><strong>RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> provided a very detailed view of the MCS at 1703 UTC. On the Infrared image, storm-top signatures often associated with severe thunderstorms included a well-defined <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/doi\/10.1175\/WAF1022.1\"><strong>enhanced-V<\/strong><\/a> <em>(with a pronounced cold\/warm couplet)<\/em> situated over the Paraguay\/Argentina border, and a &#8220;warm trench&#8221; surrounding the cold overshooting top at the vertex of the enhanced-V over extreme southern Paraguay.<\/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\/11\/181113_1703utc_noaa20_viirs_truecolor_infrared_Argentina_mcs_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/11\/181113_1703utc_noaa20_viirs_truecolor_infrared_Argentina_mcs_anim.gif\" alt=\"NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images at 1703 UTC [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images at 1703 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>The warm trench signature was also evident on 2-km resolution GOES-16 Infrared imagery at that same time <em><strong>(below),<\/strong><\/em> just west of Posadas, Argentina <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/11\/181113_SARP_SFCMG.GIF\"><strong>SARP<\/strong><\/a>. However, the warm trench surrounding the small overshooting top was only apparent from 1700 to 1705 UTC &#8212; so it was remarkable timing to have an <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/11\/181113_noaa20_overpasses.gif\"><strong>overpass<\/strong><\/a> of the NOAA-20 satellite capture the brief signature in greater detail (at 375-meter resolution). A similar short-lived small overshooting top was seen at the vertex of the enhanced-V signature for the 6-minute period centered at <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/11\/181113_1652utc_goes16_infraredWindow_glm_Argentina_mcs_anim\"><strong>1652 UTC<\/strong><\/a>.<\/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\/11\/181113_1703utc_goes16_infraredWindow_glm_Argentina_mcs_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/11\/181113_1703utc_goes16_infraredWindow_glm_Argentina_mcs_anim.gif\" alt=\"GOES-16 &quot;Clean&quot; Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) image at 1703 UTC, with and without GLM Groups plotted in cyan\/green [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window <em>(10.3 \u00b5m)<\/em> image at 1703 UTC, with and without GLM Groups plotted in cyan\/green [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In support of the RELAMPAGO-CACTI field experiment, GOES-16 (GOES-East) had a Mesoscale Domain Sector centered over northeastern Argentina on 13 November 2018 &#8212; and 1-minute &#8220;Clean&#8221; Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images with plots of GLM Groups (above) showed a large and long-lived Mesoscale Convective System moving eastward across far northeastern Argentina and expanding into southern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":30687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,30,78,53,45,3,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-lightning","category-noaa-20","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-severe-convection","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30685","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=30685"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30918,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30685\/revisions\/30918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}