{"id":36755,"date":"2020-05-18T18:59:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T18:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=36755"},"modified":"2020-05-20T02:54:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T02:54:07","slug":"cyclone-amphan-in-the-bay-of-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/36755","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Amphan in the Bay of Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200517_200518_meteosat8_infrared_Amphan_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/MET08_IR_AMPHAN_18MAY2020_B9_2020139_120000_METEOSAT-8_0001PANEL_FRAME00073.GIF\" alt=\"Meteosat-8 Infrared Window (10.8 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"642\" height=\"482\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meteosat-8 Infrared Window<em> (10.8 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200517_200518_meteosat8_infrared_Amphan_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eumetsat.int\/website\/home\/index.html\"><strong>EUMETSAT<\/strong><\/a> Meteosat-8 Infrared Window (10.8 \u00b5m) images<em><strong> (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed Cyclone Amphan during the period when it was rapidly intensifying to a Category 5 storm (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200518_adt_Amphan.gif\"><strong>ADT<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200518_satcon_amphan.gif\"><strong>SATCON<\/strong><\/a>) by 06 UTC on 18 May 2020. In fact, Ampham became the strongest tropical cyclone on record in the Bay of Bengal basin.<\/p>\n<p>NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images as viewed using <a href=\"http:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> provided a more detailed view of Amphan shortly before the time of its peak intensity.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200518_07utc_noaa20_viirs_trueColorRGB_infraredWindow_Cyclone_Amphan_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200518_07utc_noaa20_viirs_trueColorRGB_infraredWindow_Cyclone_Amphan_anim.gif\" alt=\"NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color RGB and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"641\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color RGB and Infrared Window<em> (11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>On the following night, toggles between VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed a subtle signature of mesospheric airglow waves propagating northward away from the center of Cyclone Amphan.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200518_1938utc_suomiNPP_viirs_dayNightBand_infraredWindow_Cyclone_Amphan_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200518_1938utc_suomiNPP_viirs_dayNightBand_infraredWindow_Cyclone_Amphan_anim.gif\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band <em>(0.7 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Infrared Window<em> (11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> images (credit: William Straka, CIMSS) [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200518_2028utc_noaa20_viirs_dayNightBand_infraredWindow_Cyclone_Amphan_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200518_2028utc_noaa20_viirs_dayNightBand_infraredWindow_Cyclone_Amphan_anim.gif\" alt=\"NOAA-20 VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images (credit: William Straka, CIMSS) [click to enlarge]\" width=\"641\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA-20 VIIRS Day\/Night Band<em> (0.7 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Infrared Window <em>(11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> images (credit: William Straka, CIMSS) [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EUMETSAT Meteosat-8 Infrared Window (10.8 \u00b5m) images (above) showed Cyclone Amphan during the period when it was rapidly intensifying to a Category 5 storm (ADT | SATCON) by 06 UTC on 18 May 2020. In fact, Ampham became the strongest tropical cyclone on record in the Bay of Bengal basin. NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color Red-Green-Blue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":36765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,78,53,45,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meteosat","category-noaa-20","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36755","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=36755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36764,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36755\/revisions\/36764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}