{"id":3829,"date":"2009-11-12T06:12:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T06:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2009-11-15T06:06:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T06:06:30","slug":"enhanced-turbidity-along-the-gulf-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/3829","title":{"rendered":"Enhanced turbidity of waters along the Gulf Coast"},"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\/11\/MODIS_sep-nov_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MODIS true color images (30 September, 01 November, 10 November)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/11\/MODIS_sep-nov_anim.gif\" title=\"MODIS true color images (30 September, 01 November, 10 November)\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS true color images (30 September, 01 November, 10 November)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A sequence of three MODIS true color images from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ge.ssec.wisc.edu\/modis-today\/index.php?satellite=a1&#038;product=true_color&#038;date=2009_11_12_316&#038;overlay_sector=false&#038;overlay_state=true&#038;overlay_coastline=true&#038;sector=USA7&#038;resolution=2000m\">SSEC MODIS Today<\/a><\/strong> site <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> showed an increasing level of turbidity of the water along the Gulf Coast &#8212; the 3 images are from 30 September, 01 November, and 10 November 2009. This increase in turbidity can be directly attributed to the runoff of sediment-rich water due to heavy precipitation across much of the Gulf Coast states from late October into early  November, as shown in the 14-day observed precipitation map <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong>. <em>Special thanks to Steve Davis and Jeff Craven at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crh.noaa.gov\/mkx\/\">National Weather Service forecast office at Milwaukee\/Sullivan<\/a> for creating\/capturing these  images and bringing this case to our attention!<\/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\/11\/14DayPrecipNov122009.PNG.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"14-day observed precipitation\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/11\/14DayPrecipNov122009.PNG.png\" title=\"14-day observed precipitation\" width=\"480\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">14-day observed precipitation<\/p><\/div>\n<p>AWIPS images of the MODIS Sea Surface Temperature (SST) product <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> showed that the Gulf of Mexico  immediately offshore was significantly colder due to this discharge of sediment-rich water from rivers draining from the Gulf Coast states &#8212; SST values were in the low to mid 60s F <em>(darker green colors)<\/em> right along the coast, compared to the mid 70s to near 80\u00c2\u00ba F <em>(darker red colors)<\/em> farther offshore.<\/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\/11\/091110-12_modis_sst_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MODIS Sea Surface Temperature product (November 10 - 12)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/11\/091110-12_modis_sst_anim.gif\" title=\"MODIS Sea Surface Temperature product (November 10 - 12)\" width=\"480\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS Sea Surface Temperature product (November 10 - 12)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sequence of three MODIS true color images from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) showed an increasing level of turbidity of the water along the Gulf Coast &#8212; the 3 images are from 30 September, 01 November, and 10 November 2009. This increase in turbidity can be directly attributed to the runoff of sediment-rich [&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":[16,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heavy-rain-flooding","category-marine-weather","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829","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=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3832,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions\/3832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}