{"id":37655,"date":"2020-07-16T18:59:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T18:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=37655"},"modified":"2020-07-17T19:26:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T19:26:28","slug":"turbulence-associated-with-transverse-banding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/37655","title":{"rendered":"Turbulence associated with transverse banding"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Near-Infrared \u201cCirrus\u201d (1.38 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>As a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) over Kansas and Oklahoma decayed during the morning hours of 16 July 2020<\/strong><\/a>, GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Near-Infrared \u201cCirrus\u201d (1.38 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> depicted widespread transverse banding<\/strong><\/a> — tendrils of cirrus clouds oriented perpendicular to the upper-tropospheric wind flow<\/strong><\/a> — along the northern periphery of the MCS. An AIRMET<\/strong><\/a> was issued for that region (advising of moderate turbulence between 30,000 and 43,000 feet<\/strong><\/a>), and there were numerous Pilot Reports (PIREPs) of light to moderate turbulence in the general vicinity of these transverse banding features.<\/p>\n

A GOES-16 Turbulence Probability product<\/strong><\/a> (below)<\/strong><\/em> did show scattered pockets of 25-35% probability in the transverse banding region. However, this product is designed to diagnose turbulence potential in the vicinity of features such as fronts and fields of convection.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 Turbulence Probability product, with plots of PIREPs and AIRMETs [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Such transverse banding cloud features are frequently observed around the periphery of decaying MCSs (for example, June 2018<\/strong><\/a> and July 2016<\/strong><\/a>) and in the vicinity of strong upper-tropospheric jet streaks (for example, February 2020<\/strong><\/a> and March 2016<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) over Kansas and Oklahoma decayed during the morning hours of 16 July 2020, GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) and Near-Infrared \u201cCirrus\u201d (1.38 \u00b5m) images (above) depicted widespread transverse banding — tendrils of cirrus clouds oriented perpendicular to the upper-tropospheric wind flow — along the northern periphery of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":37657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37655","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\/37655","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=37655"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37663,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37655\/revisions\/37663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}