{"id":32496,"date":"2019-03-17T21:59:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T21:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=32496"},"modified":"2019-03-19T15:46:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T15:46:54","slug":"signatures-of-fresh-snowfall-in-the-dakotas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/32496","title":{"rendered":"Signatures of fresh snowfall in the Dakotas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/190317_goes16_snowIce_ND_MN_fresh_snowfall_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/nd_snowiice-20190317_170718.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 Near-Infrared \" width=\"642\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Near-Infrared &#8220;Snow\/Ice&#8221; <em>(1.61 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/190317_goes16_snowIce_ND_MN_fresh_snowfall_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> Near-Infrared &#8220;Snow\/Ice&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band05.pdf\"><strong>1.61 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> depicted the signature of northwest-to-southeast oriented swaths of fresh snowfall<em> (lighter gray shades)<\/em> which had recently fallen on top of the aged <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/190316_snowcover.png\"><strong>snow pack<\/strong><\/a> across North Dakota on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20190317.html\"><strong>17 March 2019<\/strong><\/a>. As discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/32333\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>, the surface of the preexisting snow cover had experienced rapid melting several days earlier, which increased its \u201cwater to ice crystal\u201d ratio &#8212; making it appear <strong>darker<\/strong>, since water is a stronger absorber of radiation at the 1.61 \u00b5m wavelength.<\/p>\n<p>A similar (albeit broader and more continuous) northwest-southeast swath of fresh snowfall was seen across South Dakota <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/190317_goes16_snowIce_SD_fresh_snowfall_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sd_snowice-20190317_190218.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 Near-Infrared &quot;Snow\/Ice&quot; (1.61 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"642\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Near-Infrared &#8220;Snow\/Ice&#8221; <em>(1.61 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/190317_goes16_snowIce_SD_fresh_snowfall_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>The radar-derived 24 hour precipitation ending at 12 UTC on 17 March is shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/190317_12utc_24hour_precipitation.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/190317_12utc_24hour_precipitation.png\" alt=\"24-hour precipitation ending at 12 UTC on 17 March [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">24-hour precipitation ending at 12 UTC on 17 March [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) Near-Infrared &#8220;Snow\/Ice&#8221; (1.61 \u00b5m) images (above) depicted the signature of northwest-to-southeast oriented swaths of fresh snowfall (lighter gray shades) which had recently fallen on top of the aged snow pack across North Dakota on 17 March 2019. As discussed here, the surface of the preexisting snow cover had experienced rapid melting several days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":32498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32496","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=32496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32499,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32496\/revisions\/32499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}