{"id":31957,"date":"2019-02-21T04:45:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T04:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=31957"},"modified":"2019-02-22T19:23:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T19:23:14","slug":"stereoscopic-views-of-tropical-pacific-convection-during-mode-6-testing-for-goes-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/31957","title":{"rendered":"Stereoscopic views of Tropical Pacific Convection (and Tropical Storm Wutip) during Mode 6 Testing for GOES-17"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GOES-17 Band 2 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) Imagery (Left) and Himawari-8 Band 3 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) from 2000 UTC on 20 February to 0450 UTC on 21 February 2019 (Click to play animated gif)<\/p><\/div>\n

GOES-17 is typically operational using Mode 3 Scanning, in which mode Full Disk images are acquired every 15 minutes (in addition to a PACUS sector every 5 minutes and two mesoscale sectors every minute).\u00a0 NOAA\/NESDIS plans a transition to operational Mode 6 scanning at some point in Spring, and testing for that is ongoing.\u00a0 In Mode 6, Full Disk images are acquired every 10 minutes (while maintaining the 5-minute PACUS imagery and two 1-minute Mesoscale sectors), a Full Disk sequencing that aligns with Himawari-8 Full Disk image acquisition.\u00a0 This means that stereoscopic views using GOES-17 (overhead at 137.2\u00ba W) and Himawari-8 (overhead at 140.8\u00ba E) can be created with a 10-minute time step when GOES-17 is in Mode 6 (vs. every 30 minutes when GOES-17 is operating in Mode 3, as shown here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The stereoscopic animation above shows tropical convection that was trailing western Pacific then-Tropical Storm Wutip (link 1<\/a>,\u00a0 link 2<\/a> on Typhoon Wutip);\u00a0 The three-dimensions apparent in the stereoscopic imagery allow for easy identification of vertical shear — over the southwestern corner of the image, for example.<\/p>\n

Tropical Storm Wutip was on the extreme limb of GOES-17’s field of view on 20-21 February; nevertheless, data could be used to view the storm, in stereo, with Himawari-8. That animation is shown below.\u00a0 Wutip is on the western edge of the imagery.<\/p>\n

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GOES-17 Band 2 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) Imagery (Left) and Himawari-8 Band 3 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) from 1900 UTC on 20 February to 0450 UTC on 21 February 2019 (Click to play animated gif)<\/p><\/div>\n

Himawari-8 imagery is courtesy the Japan Meteorological Agency, JMA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOES-17 is typically operational using Mode 3 Scanning, in which mode Full Disk images are acquired every 15 minutes (in addition to a PACUS sector every 5 minutes and two mesoscale sectors every minute).\u00a0 NOAA\/NESDIS plans a transition to operational Mode 6 scanning at some point in Spring, and testing for that is ongoing.\u00a0 In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":31960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-17","category-himawari-8"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31957","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31957"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31989,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31957\/revisions\/31989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}