{"id":376,"date":"2007-03-13T23:59:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T23:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2007\/03\/13\/actinae-in-the-eastern-pacific-ocean\/"},"modified":"2018-11-28T20:05:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T20:05:48","slug":"actinae-in-the-eastern-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/376","title":{"rendered":"Actinoform Clouds (Actinae) in the Eastern Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" title=\"GOES-11 visible image\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/03\/070313_goes11_visible_actinae_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/03\/070313_G11_ACTINAE_30.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-11 Visible (0.65 \u00b5m) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-11 Visible <em>(0.65 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Shortwave Infrared <em>(3.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-11<em> (GOES-West)<\/em> Visible (daytime) and 3.9 \u00b5m Shortwave Infrared (nighttime) imagery<em><strong> (above)<\/strong><\/em> revealed an interesting cyclonic vortex which was propagating westward across the eastern North Pacific Ocean on 13-14 March 2007. The radial banded cloud features that form such a cloud &#8220;swirl&#8221; are known as <em>actinae<\/em> or <a title=\"actinoform clouds\" href=\"http:\/\/ams.allenpress.com\/archive\/1520-0477\/85\/10\/pdf\/i1520-0477-85-10-1585.pdf\"><strong>actinoform clouds<\/strong><\/a>, and they are occasionally seen in the marine stratocumulus cloud field over the Pacific Ocean (one such case was <a title=\"June 1997 case\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/misc\/970617.html\"><strong>June 1997<\/strong><\/a>). This type of cloud pattern was first observed back in 1962 on <a title=\"TIROS V imagery \" href=\"http:\/\/www.photolib.noaa.gov\/htmls\/spac0162.htm\"><strong>TIROS V imagery<\/strong><\/a> near Hawaii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-11 (GOES-West) Visible (daytime) and 3.9 \u00b5m Shortwave Infrared (nighttime) imagery (above) revealed an interesting cyclonic vortex which was propagating westward across the eastern North Pacific Ocean on 13-14 March 2007. The radial banded cloud features that form such a cloud &#8220;swirl&#8221; are known as actinae or actinoform clouds, and they are occasionally seen in [&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":[10,18,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-11","category-marine-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","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=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30866,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/30866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}