{"id":30714,"date":"2018-11-15T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T23:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=30714"},"modified":"2018-11-18T19:29:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T19:29:24","slug":"goes-17-arrives-at-its-goes-west-position-of-137-2o-w-longitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/30714","title":{"rendered":"GOES-17 arrives at its GOES-West position of 137.2\u00ba W longitude"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1500 UTC Full Disk images of the 16 ABI bands from GOES-17 [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>\n

* GOES-17 images posted here are preliminary and non-operational *<\/em><\/p>\n

GOES-17 arrived at its GOES-West position of 137.2\u00ba W longitude on 13 November 2018, and began to transmit imagery via GOES Re-Broadcast (GRB) at 1500 UTC and the AWIPS Satellite Broadcast Network (SBN) at 1700 UTC on 15 November (NOAA\/NESDIS article<\/strong><\/a>). A toggle between Full Disk images of the 16 ABI<\/strong><\/a> spectral bands from GOES-17 at 1500 UTC is shown above, with a 16-panel multi-band animation from 1515-2300 UTC shown below..<\/p>\n

\"Full<\/a>

Full Disk images from the 16 ABI bands of GOES-17 [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>Full Disk GOES-17 Low-level (7.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), Mid-level (6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Upper-level (6.2 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) Water Vapor images\u00a0 are shown below.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-17<\/a>

GOES-17 Low-level (7.3 \u00b5m),<\/em> Mid-level (6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Upper-level (6.2 \u00b5m)<\/em> Water Vapor images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>The improved spatial resolution of GOES-17 (vs GOES-15) was very obvious at higher latitudes — a closer look at GOES-17 Water Vapor imagery (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed good detail associated with a gale-force occluded low in the Gulf of Alaska and a weaker low in the Bering Sea (surface analyses<\/strong><\/a>). Note that signatures of the higher terrain of mountain ranges across south-central and southeastern Alaska could be seen on the 7.3 \u00b5m and to a lesser extent the 6.9 \u00b5m images.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-17<\/a>

GOES-17 Low-level (7.3 \u00b5m),<\/em> Mid-level (6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Upper-level (6.2 \u00b5m)<\/em> Water Vapor images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>After sunrise, GOES-17 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (below)<\/strong><\/em> provided a compelling view of the snow-covered Alaska Range (which includes Denali at 20,320 feet \/ 6,194 meters),<\/em> the Wrangell Mountains (which includes Mt. Wrangell at 14,163 feet \/ 4,317 meters)<\/em> and the Chugach Mountains (which includes Mount Marcus Baker, 13,176 feet \/ 4,016 meters)<\/em>. In particular, note the long shadows cast by Denali and the Alaska Range in the upper left portion of the images.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-17<\/a>

GOES-17 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly plots of surface reports [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>For a short time a GOES-17 Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> was positioned over Hawai’i, providing images at 1-minute intervals (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-17<\/a>

GOES-17 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly plots of surface observations [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands could be seen on the far western limb of Full Disk GOES-17 images (below)<\/strong><\/em>. A few isolated tropical thunderstorms could be seen developing and collapsing in the vicinity of the islands.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-17<\/a>

GOES-17 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly plots of surface observations [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A portion of West Antarctica<\/strong><\/a> could be seen on the far southern limb of GOES-17 Full Disk images, along with a storm system in the South Pacific Ocean (below)<\/strong><\/em>. Through gaps in the clouds, the northern edge of the Antarctic sea ice<\/strong><\/a> (source<\/strong><\/a>) was also evident in the Visible imagery.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-17<\/a>

GOES-17 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) <\/em>and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Over the Lower 48 states, AWIPS images of 1-minute GOES-17 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) data (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the smoke and thermal anomaly (darker red pixels near the center of the images)<\/em> associated with the ongoing Camp Fire<\/strong><\/a> in northern California.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-17<\/a>

GOES-17 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly plots of surface reports [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Farther to the south in central California, a comparison of 1-minute Shortwave Infrared images from GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> and GOES-17 revealed differences in the size and orientation of hot pixels of the Adler\/Mountaineer\/Moses Fires<\/strong><\/a> burning northeast of Porterville KPTV\u00a0 in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada<\/strong><\/a>. These differences were due to the view angle from the 2 satellites — 62 degrees from GOES-16 over the Atlantic Ocean, vs. only 41 degrees from GOES-17 over the Pacific Ocean. There was a navigational jump with GOES-17 from 1831-1837 UTC, so those images were removed from the animation.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 vs GOES-17 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* GOES-17 images posted here are preliminary and non-operational * GOES-17 arrived at its GOES-West position of 137.2\u00ba W longitude on 13 November 2018, and began to transmit imagery via GOES Re-Broadcast (GRB) at 1500 UTC and the AWIPS Satellite Broadcast Network (SBN) at 1700 UTC on 15 November (NOAA\/NESDIS article). A toggle between Full […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":30716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-17"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30714","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=30714"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30754,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30714\/revisions\/30754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}