{"id":35566,"date":"2020-02-04T23:59:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T23:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=35566"},"modified":"2020-02-09T02:53:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T02:53:27","slug":"transverse-banding-over-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/35566","title":{"rendered":"Transverse banding over California"},"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\/200204_goes17_visible_cirrus_pireps_CA_transverse_banding_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/02\/ca_cirrus-20200204_215025.png\" alt=\"GOES-17 \" width=\"643\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-17 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible<em> (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Near-Infrared &#8220;Cirrus&#8221; <em>(1.37 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with pilot reports of turbulence [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/02\/200204_goes17_visible_cirrus_pireps_CA_transverse_banding_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23225\"><strong>Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-17 <em>(GOES-West)<\/em> &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Near-Infrared &#8220;Cirrus&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band04.pdf\"><strong>1.37 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images<em><strong> (above)<\/strong><\/em> displayed widespread &#8220;transverse banding&#8221; &#8212; elongated cirrus elements oriented perpendicular to the ambient jet stream flow &#8212; that was migrating southward across California on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20200204.html\"><strong>04 February 2020<\/strong><\/a>. This satellite signature is an indicator of potential turbulence, which in this case did indeed result in several pilot reports of light to moderate turbulence.<\/p>\n<p>One of the pilot reports over Salinas, California at 2150 UTC<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) at an altitude of 30,000 feet &#8212; this suggests that the aircraft might have been flying just above or below the actual cirrus bands.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/02\/200204_2150utc_goes17_visible_pirep_CAT_CA.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/02\/200204_2150utc_goes17_visible_pirep_CAT_CA.png\" alt=\"GOES-17 &quot;Red&quot; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) image with a pilot report of Clear Air Turbulence at 2150 UTC [click to enlarge]\" width=\"641\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-17 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible <em>(0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> image with a pilot report of Clear Air Turbulence at 2150 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Near-Infrared &#8220;Cirrus&#8221; (1.37 \u00b5m) images (above) displayed widespread &#8220;transverse banding&#8221; &#8212; elongated cirrus elements oriented perpendicular to the ambient jet stream flow &#8212; that was migrating southward across California on 04 February 2020. This satellite signature is an indicator of potential turbulence, which in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":35590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation","category-goes-17"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35566","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=35566"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35580,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35566\/revisions\/35580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}