{"id":35538,"date":"2020-02-03T23:59:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T23:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=35538"},"modified":"2020-02-04T03:13:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T03:13:29","slug":"severe-turbulence-over-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/35538","title":{"rendered":"Severe turbulence over Arizona and New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/02\/200203_goes16_waterVapor_turbulence_AZ_NM_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/02\/nm_wv_tb-20200203_223108.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m) images, with pilot reports of turbulence [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"643\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Mid-level Water Vapor <em>(6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with pilot reports of turbulence [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/02\/200203_goes16_waterVapor_turbulence_AZ_NM_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> Mid-level Water Vapor (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band09.pdf\"><strong>6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images<em><strong> (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed numerous orographic waves over eastern Arizona and western New Mexico on 03 February 2020. There were several high-altitude pilot reports of turbulence across that region, including severe turbulence associated with mountain waves at 43,000 feet and at 39,000 feet<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em>. The turbulence encounter at 39,000 feet noted an aircraft speed fluctuation of +\/- 20 knots, along with a drop in altitude of 1600 feet.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/02\/200203_2231utc_goes16_waterVapor_pilotReport.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/02\/200203_2231utc_goes16_waterVapor_pilotReport.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m) image, with pilot report of severe turbulence at 43,000 feet [click to enlarge]\" width=\"642\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Mid-level Water Vapor <em>(6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> image, with pilot report of severe turbulence at 43,000 feet [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/02\/200203_2336utc_goes16_waterVapor_pilotReport.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/02\/200203_2336utc_goes16_waterVapor_pilotReport.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m) image, with pilot report of severe turbulence at 39,000 feet [click to enlarge]\" width=\"642\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Mid-level Water Vapor <em>(6.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> image, with pilot report of severe turbulence at 39,000 feet [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m) images (above) showed numerous orographic waves over eastern Arizona and western New Mexico on 03 February 2020. There were several high-altitude pilot reports of turbulence across that region, including severe turbulence associated with mountain waves at 43,000 feet and at 39,000 feet (below). The turbulence encounter at 39,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":35540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation","category-goes-16"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35538","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=35538"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35545,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35538\/revisions\/35545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}