{"id":34859,"date":"2019-10-22T12:59:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T12:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=34859"},"modified":"2019-10-29T15:25:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T15:25:01","slug":"convectively-generated-gravity-waves-off-the-coast-of-western-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/34859","title":{"rendered":"Convectively-generated gravity waves off the coast of Western Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/191020_191022_himawari8_upperLevelWaterVapor_Australia_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/HIM08_WV8_AUS_20_22OCT2019_B8_2019293_205000_HIMAWARI-8_0001PANEL_FRAME00036.GIF\" alt=\"Himawari-8 Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"643\" height=\"483\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 Upper-level Water Vapor <em>(6.2 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/191020_191022_himawari8_upperLevelWaterVapor_Australia_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/jma\/indexe.html\"><strong>JMA<\/strong><\/a> Himawari-8 Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 \u00b5m) images<em><strong> (above)<\/strong><\/em> revealed 2 distinct pulses of long-lived gravity waves that propagated northward\/northwestward\/westward from the coast of Western Australia during the 20-22 October 2019 period. These waves appear to have been generated by thunderstorms near and along the coast &#8212; and traveled as far northward as Christmas Island (station identifier YPXM) and the Lesser Sunda Islands.<\/p>\n<p>The corresponding Himawari-8 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m) images are shown below.<\/p>\n<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\/10\/191020_191022_himawari8_midLevelWaterVapor_Australia_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/HIM08_WV9_AUS_20_22OCT2019_B9_2019293_205000_HIMAWARI-8_0001PANEL_FRAME00036.GIF\" alt=\"Himawari-8 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"641\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 Mid-level Water Vapor <em>(6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/191020_191022_himawari8_midLevelWaterVapor_Australia_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JMA Himawari-8 Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 \u00b5m) images (above) revealed 2 distinct pulses of long-lived gravity waves that propagated northward\/northwestward\/westward from the coast of Western Australia during the 20-22 October 2019 period. These waves appear to have been generated by thunderstorms near and along the coast &#8212; and traveled as far northward as Christmas Island [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-himawari-8"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34859","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=34859"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34875,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34859\/revisions\/34875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}