{"id":360,"date":"2007-01-05T22:59:19","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T22:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2007\/01\/05\/goes-10-south-american-coverage-during-goes-12-rso\/"},"modified":"2007-02-09T14:51:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T14:51:19","slug":"goes-10-south-american-coverage-during-goes-12-rso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/360","title":{"rendered":"GOES-10: South American coverage during GOES-12 RSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"GOES-12 vs GOES-10 coverage\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/01\/2PANEL_RSO_COLOR.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" align=\"middle\" title=\"GOES-12 vs GOES-10 coverage\" alt=\"GOES-12 vs GOES-10 coverage\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/01\/2PANEL_RSO_COLOR.GIF\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During periods when the GOES-12 imager is placed into Rapid Scan Operations <em>(<strong>RSO<\/strong>)<\/em> &#8212; as was the case on <a title=\"05 January 2007 daily weather map\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20070105.html\"><strong>05 January 2007<\/strong><\/a> to monitor severe convection over the southeastern US &#8212; the coverage of the southern 2\/3  of the South American continent is limited to only 1 image every 3 hours (when GOES-12 does a <em>full disk<\/em> scan). The color-enhanced IR window (IRW) image comparison above shows the difference in South American coverage between GOES-12 (in RSO) and GOES-10 (in routine operations) at 20:25\/20:28 UTC, and Java animations of <a title=\"GOES-12 IR images (Java animation)\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/01\/070105_g12.html\"><strong>GOES-12<\/strong><\/a> and <a title=\"GOES-10 IR images (Java animation)\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/01\/070105_g10.html\"><strong>GOES-10<\/strong><\/a> imagery from that day further demonstrate  the value of having the GOES-10 satellite positioned at 60\u00c2\u00ba W longitude to support the Earth Observation Partnership of the Americas (<a title=\"EOPA project\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.strategies.org\/EOPA.html\"><strong>EOPA<\/strong><\/a>) project. During the GOES-12 RSO period<em><strong>,<\/strong><\/em> which began at 18:30 UTC on that day, the entire South American continent was sampled 3-4 times per hour with GOES-10, allowing southern hemisphere meterologists to monitor the widespread convection and other phenomena that were occurring over that continent. The latest GOES-10 sounder and imager  products are available on the <a title=\"GOES-10 imagery\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/rt\/goes10.php\"><strong>CIMSS GOES Realtime Derived Products<\/strong><\/a> site.<br \/>\n<a title=\"GOES-10 IR image\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/01\/EXP_G10_IMAGER_15.GIF\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During periods when the GOES-12 imager is placed into Rapid Scan Operations (RSO) &#8212; as was the case on 05 January 2007 to monitor severe convection over the southeastern US &#8212; the coverage of the southern 2\/3 of the South American continent is limited to only 1 image every 3 hours (when GOES-12 does a [&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":[14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-10","category-goes-12"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","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=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}