{"id":30878,"date":"2018-11-26T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T23:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=30878"},"modified":"2018-12-04T05:09:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T05:09:25","slug":"goes-17-goes-16-true-color-composite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/30878","title":{"rendered":"GOES-17 \/ GOES-16 True Color Composite"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"GOES-17<\/a>

GOES-17 \/ GOES-16 True Color RGB composite [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n

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

A composite of GOES-17 and GOES-16 True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) imagery (above)<\/strong><\/em> was created by blending a total of 59 north-south swaths — each swath within +\/- 23 minutes of “local Noon” (for example, the blue swaths using GOES-16<\/strong><\/a>) — during the period beginning at 1115 UTC on 26 November (over the eastern Atlantic Ocean and far western Africa, using GOES-16)<\/em> and ending at 0200 UTC on 27 November 2018 (over the western Pacific Ocean, using GOES-17)<\/em>. Since the GOES-16\/17 ABI<\/strong><\/a> does not have a true “Green” (0.51 \u00b5m) spectral band, that component of the RGB image is simulated using other Near-Infrared bands.<\/p>\n

For perspective, the GOES-17\/GOES-16 True Color composite is overlaid on a global “Blue Marble” background (below)<\/strong>,<\/em> which helps to emphasize the total areal coverage provided by the GOES-R<\/strong><\/a> constellation.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-17<\/a>

GOES-17 \/ GOES-16 True Color RGB composite [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Notable Northern Hemisphere features seen in the imagery include (1) a pair of strong mid-latitude cyclones in the North Atlantic<\/strong><\/a>, (2) a large storm in the Gulf of Alaska<\/strong><\/a> with a trailing cold front moving inland along the west coast of North America, (3) two storms in the West Pacific<\/strong><\/a>, and (4) convective cloud bands along the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) in the tropical Atlantic and Pacific basins (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Surface<\/a>

Surface analyses from 12 UTC on 26 November to 00 UTC on 27 November [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Kudos to Rick Kohrs (SSEC) for masterfully perfecting the blending technique to create these composite GOES images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* GOES-17 imagery posted here is preliminary and non-operational * A composite of GOES-17 and GOES-16 True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) imagery (above) was created by blending a total of 59 north-south swaths — each swath within +\/- 23 minutes of “local Noon” (for example, the blue swaths using GOES-16) — during the period beginning at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":30882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,80,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-goes-17","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30878","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=30878"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30948,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30878\/revisions\/30948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}