{"id":36509,"date":"2020-05-02T23:59:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T23:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=36509"},"modified":"2020-05-05T20:53:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T20:53:05","slug":"boundary-layer-waves-over-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/36509","title":{"rendered":"Boundary layer wave clouds over Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200502_goes16_visible_pireps_KS_waves_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/ks_vis_pireps-20200502_215111.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 \" width=\"643\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible <em>(0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with plots of pilot reports of turbulence and AIRMET boundaries [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200502_goes16_visible_pireps_KS_waves_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16<em> (GOES-East)<\/em> &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed widespread boundary layer wave clouds across much of Kansas and far eastern Colorado on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20200502.html\"><strong>02 May 2020<\/strong><\/a>. Although there was a temporary outage of pilot report data from 18-19 UTC, there was one pilot report of light turbulence over Hays, Kansas (KHYS) at an altitude of 6500 feet at <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200502_2041utc_goes16_visible_turbulence_pirep.png\"><strong>2041 UTC<\/strong><\/a>. An AIRMET for the potential of turbulence below 7000 feet had been issued at <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200502_1626utc_goes16_visible_airmet.png\"><strong>14 UTC<\/strong><\/a>. There was a hint of some wave interference, which may have enhanced turbulence potential.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a subtle signature of these waves seen in GOES-16 Low-level Water Vapor (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band10.pdf\"><strong>7.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200502_goes16_waterVapor_pireps_KS_waves_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/ks_wv_pireps-20200502_215111.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 Low-level Water Vapor (7.3 \u00b5m) images, with plots of pilot reports of turbulence and AIRMETs boundaries [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"641\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Low-level Water Vapor <em>(7.3 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with plots of pilot reports of turbulence and AIRMETs boundaries [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200502_goes16_waterVapor_pireps_KS_waves_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images (above) showed widespread boundary layer wave clouds across much of Kansas and far eastern Colorado on 02 May 2020. Although there was a temporary outage of pilot report data from 18-19 UTC, there was one pilot report of light turbulence over Hays, Kansas (KHYS) at an altitude of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":36511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36509","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\/36509","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=36509"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36519,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36509\/revisions\/36519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}