{"id":37807,"date":"2020-07-28T23:59:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T23:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=37807"},"modified":"2020-08-01T02:59:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T02:59:36","slug":"vortices-downwind-of-the-kuril-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/37807","title":{"rendered":"Vortices downwind of the Kuril Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 655px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\" https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/07\/200728_himawari8_visible_Kuril_Islands_vortices_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/07\/HIM08_VIS_KURIL_VORTICES_28JUL2020_B3_2020211_000000_HIMAWARI-8_0001PANEL_FRAME00031.GIF\" alt=\"Himawari-8 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"645\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation | MP4]<\/p><\/div><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/jma\/indexe.html\">JMA<\/a><\/strong> Himawari-8 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong> <\/em>showed trains of vortices extending downwind (southeast) of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kuril_Islands\"><strong>Kuril Islands<\/strong><\/a> on 28-29 July 2020 (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/07\/200728_200729_WestPacific_surface_analyses_anim.gif\"><strong>surface analyses<\/strong><\/a>). One unusual aspect of these features was the development of small cloud elements within the cloud-free &#8220;hole&#8221; portion of some of the vortices.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T to Santiago Gass\u00f3 for alerting us to this interesting case.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Himawari animation (fwd\/bkwd) confirms it, condensation starts inside the clean holes which remain as cloud after the surrounding dissipates. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CIMSS_Satellite?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CIMSS_Satellite<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOESguy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GOESguy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BLx2hqKdEo\">https:\/\/t.co\/BLx2hqKdEo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PW6xNHQsWd\">pic.twitter.com\/PW6xNHQsWd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Santiago Gass\u00f3 (@SanGasso) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SanGasso\/status\/1288456670193037312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JMA Himawari-8 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images (above) showed trains of vortices extending downwind (southeast) of the Kuril Islands on 28-29 July 2020 (surface analyses). One unusual aspect of these features was the development of small cloud elements within the cloud-free &#8220;hole&#8221; portion of some of the vortices. H\/T to Santiago Gass\u00f3 for alerting us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":37811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-8"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37807","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=37807"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37818,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37807\/revisions\/37818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}