{"id":33383,"date":"2019-05-30T22:59:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T22:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=33383"},"modified":"2024-04-02T18:38:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T18:38:35","slug":"actinoform-clouds-or-actiniae-in-the-central-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/33383","title":{"rendered":"Actinoform clouds (or actinae) in the central Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/190530_goes17_visible_Pacific_Ocean_actiniae_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/G17_VIS_ACTINAE_30MAY2019_2019150_225119_GOES-17_0001PANEL.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-17 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images, with 3-hourly plots of ship wind reports [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"641\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-17 \u201cRed\u201d Visible <em>(0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with 3-hourly plots of ship wind reports [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/190530_goes17_visible_Pacific_Ocean_actiniae_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-17 <em>(GOES-West)<\/em> \u201cRed\u201d Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the mesoscale cyclonic circulations of actinoform clouds (or &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/wxwise\/swirl\/actinae2.htm\"><strong>actinae<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;) within the marine boundary layer stratocumulus cloud field over the central Pacific Ocean on 30 May 2019.<\/p>\n<p>This type of cloud feature was originally identified in <a href=\"https:\/\/photolib.noaa.gov\/Collections\/NOAA-In-Space\/Imagery\/Visible-Imagery\/emodule\/707\/eitem\/23039\"><strong>TIROS-V imagery<\/strong><\/a> over the Pacific Ocean in 1962 <em><strong>(below),<\/strong><\/em> and was featured in the first Monthly Weather Review &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/ee\/TIROS_5_radial_clouds_monthly_review_%28Oct._7%2C_1962%29-repair.jpg\"><strong>Picture of the Month<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; series in January 1963.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/1963_tirosV_actinoform.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/1963_tirosV_actinoform.jpg\" alt=\"TIROS-V image of actinoform clouds over the western Pacific Ocean on 07 October 1962 [click to enlarge]\" width=\"641\" height=\"623\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">TIROS-V image of actinoform clouds over the western Pacific Ocean on 07 October 1962 [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-17 (GOES-West) \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images (above) revealed the mesoscale cyclonic circulations of actinoform clouds (or &#8220;actinae&#8220;) within the marine boundary layer stratocumulus cloud field over the central Pacific Ocean on 30 May 2019. This type of cloud feature was originally identified in TIROS-V imagery over the Pacific Ocean in 1962 (below), and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":33387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-17","category-tiros"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33383","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=33383"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37366,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33383\/revisions\/37366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}