{"id":32983,"date":"2019-04-18T06:55:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T06:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=32983"},"modified":"2019-04-20T03:50:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T03:50:39","slug":"ice-in-the-sea-of-okhotsk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/32983","title":{"rendered":"Ice in the Sea of Okhotsk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Himawari-8 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>JMA<\/strong><\/a> Himawari-8 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> revealed circulations of ice within the Sea of Okhotsk<\/strong><\/a> (east of Sakhalin Island — station identifier UHSS is Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia) on 17-18 April 2019. Wind stress from an occluded Gale Force Low moving through that region on the previous day (surface analyses<\/strong><\/a>) likely helped to enhance some of the ice circulations.<\/p>\n

In a comparison of Himawari-8 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Near-Infrared “Snow\/Ice” (1.61 \u00b5m) images (below)<\/strong>,<\/em> note that the ice appears much darker than cloud features (since ice is a strong absorber of radiation at the 1.61 \u00b5m wavelength).<\/p>\n

\"Himawari-8<\/a>

Himawari-8 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, left)<\/em> and Near-Infrared “Snow\/Ice” (1.61 \u00b5m, right)<\/em> images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Thanks to Thomas Birchard (NWS Honolulu) for bringing this interesting feature to our attention!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JMA Himawari-8 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images (above) revealed circulations of ice within the Sea of Okhotsk (east of Sakhalin Island — station identifier UHSS is Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia) on 17-18 April 2019. Wind stress from an occluded Gale Force Low moving through that region on the previous day (surface analyses) likely helped to enhance some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":32999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-8"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32983","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=32983"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33000,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32983\/revisions\/33000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}