{"id":3712,"date":"2009-10-23T23:21:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T23:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=3712"},"modified":"2010-05-20T15:50:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T15:50:25","slug":"snow-cover-in-colorado-kansas-and-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/3712","title":{"rendered":"Snow cover in Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/10\/091023_modis_vis_snowice_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MODIS visible and 2.1 \u00c2\u00b5m near-IR snow\/ice channel images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/10\/091023_modis_vis_snowice_anim.gif\" alt=\"MODIS visible and 2.1 \u00c2\u00b5m near-IR snow\/ice channel images\" width=\"480\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS visible and 2.1 \u00c2\u00b5m near-IR snow\/ice channel images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>AWIPS images of the MODIS visible and 2.1 \u00c2\u00b5m near-IR &#8220;snow\/ice&#8221; channels <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> showed areas of snow cover across parts of eastern Colorado, far northwestern Kansas, and Nebraska on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20091023.html\">23 October 2009<\/a><\/strong>. Snow is a strong absorber at the 2.1 \u00c2\u00b5m wavelength, so it appears very dark on the snow\/ice channel image.<\/p>\n<p>The corresponding MODIS Land Surface Temperature product <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed significantly colder LST values in the middle to upper 30s F <em>(darker green colors)<\/em> where the snow cover was deeper. There was a lack of surface reports in the exact areas of deeper snow cover, except for Limon in eastern Colorado <em>(station identifier KLIC), <\/em>which was reporting a surface air temperature of 39\u00c2\u00ba F at the time.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/10\/091023_modis_lst_metar_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MODIS Land Surface Temperature product + surface METAR data\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/10\/091023_modis_lst_metar_anim.gif\" alt=\"MODIS Land Surface Temperature product + surface METAR data\" width=\"480\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS Land Surface Temperature product + surface METAR data<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Snowfall amounts from this particular storm <em>(which moved through the region on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20091022.html\">22 October<\/a><\/strong>) <\/em> included 15 inches at Elizabeth, Colorado, 12 inches at Brady, Nebraska, and 4 inches at Saint Francis, Kansas. These locations are marked on a MODIS Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) true color image  from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ge.ssec.wisc.edu\/modis-today\/index.php?satellite=t1&#038;product=true_color&#038;date=2009_10_23_296&#038;overlay_sector=false&#038;overlay_state=true&#038;overlay_coastline=true&#038;sector=USA2&#038;resolution=1000m\">SSEC MODIS Today<\/a><\/strong> site <em>(<strong>below,<\/strong> displayed using Google Earth).<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/10\/091023_modis_truecolor_google.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MODIS true color image (displayed using Google Earth)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/10\/091023_modis_truecolor_google.jpg\" alt=\"MODIS true color image (displayed using Google Earth)\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS true color image (displayed using Google Earth)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AWIPS images of the MODIS visible and 2.1 \u00c2\u00b5m near-IR &#8220;snow\/ice&#8221; channels (above) showed areas of snow cover across parts of eastern Colorado, far northwestern Kansas, and Nebraska on 23 October 2009. Snow is a strong absorber at the 2.1 \u00c2\u00b5m wavelength, so it appears very dark on the snow\/ice channel image. The corresponding MODIS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,12,45,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-earth","category-modis","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712","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=3712"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5669,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions\/5669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}