{"id":315,"date":"2006-12-12T19:22:05","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T19:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2006\/12\/12\/goes-13-images-at-30-second-intervals\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T21:32:58","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T21:32:58","slug":"goes-13-images-at-30-second-intervals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/315","title":{"rendered":"GOES-13: Images at 30-Second Intervals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/061212_g13_vis_srso_2.mov\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"GOES-13 visible images (QuickTime animation)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/061212_g13_vis_srso_50.GIF\" title=\"GOES-13 visible images (QuickTime animation)\" id=\"image314\" alt=\"GOES-13 visible images (QuickTime animation)\" align=\"middle\" height=\"361\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20061212.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"12 December 2006 daily weather map\"><strong>12 December 2006<\/strong><\/a> (Day 6 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/projects\/goes_n\/\" title=\"GOES-13 NOAA Science Test\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GOES-13 post-launch NOAA Science Test<\/strong><\/a>), the GOES-13 satellite was placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) mode, providing images at <em>30-second intervals<\/em> for the entire day. A 200-image QuickTime animation of visible imagery <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> shows the development of convection along an advancing cold frontal boundary during the late morning into the early afternoon hours; isolated <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/061212_spc_wwa.jpg\" title=\"SPC watches\/warnings\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>severe thunderstorm warnings<\/strong><\/a> were issued for counties in eastern Mississippi (however, no reports of severe weather were received from these particular storms). Previous GOES satellites have provided 30-second interval imagery during special test periods (for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/wmovl\/VRL\/Tutorials\/ADVIMGRY\/rrsd2.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"GOES-8 30-second imagery\"><strong>GOES-8 in 1996)<\/strong><\/a>, but such SRSO test periods were much shorter (about 10 minutes total duration).<\/p>\n<p>A QuickTime animation of GOES-13 10.7\u00c2\u00b5m IR images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> reveals fairly cold cloud top temperatures (around -55 to -60 C, orange to red enhancement), but no &#8220;enhanced-v&#8221; signature was observed.  A few cloud to ground (CG) lightning strikes were seen in the vicinity of the strongest convection, but flash rates were quite low (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/061212_awips_goes_modis_ir_ltg.jpg\" title=\"GOES, MODIS IR with CG lightning strikes\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GOES-12, MODIS IR images with CG strikes<\/strong><\/a>).<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/061212_g13_ir4_srso.mov\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"GOES-13 10.7\u00c2\u00b5m IR images (QuickTime animation)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/12\/061212_g13_ir4_150.GIF\" title=\"GOES-13 IR images (QuickTime animation)\" id=\"image318\" alt=\"GOES-13 IR images (QuickTime animation)\" align=\"middle\" height=\"367\" width=\"485\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 December 2006 (Day 6 of the GOES-13 post-launch NOAA Science Test), the GOES-13 satellite was placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) mode, providing images at 30-second intervals for the entire day. A 200-image QuickTime animation of visible imagery (above) shows the development of convection along an advancing cold frontal boundary during the [&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":[11,30,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-13","category-lightning","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","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=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}