{"id":3448,"date":"2009-09-17T22:33:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T22:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=3448"},"modified":"2009-09-18T15:51:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T15:51:44","slug":"super-typhoon-choi-wan-15w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/3448","title":{"rendered":"Super Typhoon Choi-Wan (15W)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"MTSAT-1R<\/a>

MTSAT-1R IR images<\/p><\/div>\n

MTSAT-1R 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed Super Typhoon Choi-Wan (17W) as it reached Category 5<\/strong><\/a> intensity over the western North Pacific Ocean during the 15 September <\/strong>– 16 September 2009<\/strong> period. The eye of the typhoon was quite large (which moved just to the south of Pagan in the Northern Mariana Islands),<\/em> with a very cold rings of convection seen during the various eyewall replacement cycles (as also seen on this MIMIC animation<\/strong><\/a>)<\/em>. A time series of the Advanced Dvorak Technique (ADT) intensity estimate from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site is shown below.<\/p>\n

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\"Advanced<\/a>

Advanced Dvorak Technique intensity estimates for Choi-Wan<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"MODIS<\/a>

Terra MODIS IR image (14 September)<\/p><\/div>\n

A pair of 1-km resolution MODIS images show the dramatic change in satellite appearance of Choi-Wan, from one with a ragged eye surrounded by cloud tops as cold as -87\u00c2\u00ba C<\/strong> (darker purple color enhancement)<\/em> on 14 September (above)<\/strong><\/em> to more of a classic\u00c2\u00a0 annular structure with a large and well-defined eye on 15 September (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\"MODIS<\/a>

Aqua MODIS IR image (15 September)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MTSAT-1R 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images (above) showed Super Typhoon Choi-Wan (17W) as it reached Category 5 intensity over the western North Pacific Ocean during the 15 September – 16 September 2009 period. The eye of the typhoon was quite large (which moved just to the south of Pagan in the Northern Mariana Islands), with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modis","category-mtsat","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448","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=3448"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3453,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions\/3453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}