{"id":383,"date":"2007-04-03T23:55:48","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T23:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2007\/04\/03\/fogstratus-off-the-us-east-coast\/"},"modified":"2007-04-04T21:49:59","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T21:49:59","slug":"fogstratus-off-the-us-east-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/383","title":{"rendered":"Fog\/stratus off the US East Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"GOES-12 3.9\u00c2\u00b5m IR image\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/04\/070403_G12_IR2_40A.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"361\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"GOES-12 3.9\u00c2\u00b5m IR image\" title=\"GOES-12 3.9\u00c2\u00b5m IR image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/04\/070403_G12_IR2_40A.GIF\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A shallow bank of fog and stratus cloud was moving southward along the Delaware\/Maryland\/Virginia coast during the pre-dawn and early morning hours on <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"03 April 2007 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20070403.html\"><strong>03 April 2007<\/strong><\/a>. GOES-12 3.9\u00c2\u00b5m InfraRed (IR) imagery <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic\">(above; <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"GOES-12 3.9\u00c2\u00b5m IR images (Java animation)\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/04\/070403_g12_ir2.html\">Java animation<\/a>)<\/span> shows that the fog\/stratus feature appeared to be &#8220;channeled&#8221; along the colder waters  that were located immediately offshore (between the coastline and the warmer Gulf Stream waters farther offshore) &#8212; sea surface temperatures the previous afternoon were <strong>45-55\u00c2\u00ba F<\/strong> on  the <a title=\"AWIPS MODIS SST image\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/04\/070402_modis_sst.jpg\"><strong>MODIS SST product<\/strong><\/a>. The fog dissipated over the warmer water (and also over land as the warm April sun heated the surface), while the fog immediately off the coast continued to move southward over the patch of colder waters. A comparison of the <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"GOES and MODIS fog\/stratus product images\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/04\/070403_modis_goes_fog.jpg\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">GOES and MODIS fog\/stratus product<\/span><\/a> around 03\/04 UTC revealed that the edges of the fog\/stratus  were much sharper on the 1-km resolution MODIS imagery (and the 4-km resolution GOES fog\/stratus product exhibited some &#8220;false signal&#8221; off the Virginia coast at that time).<\/p>\n<p>GOES-12 visible imagery <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic\">(below; <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"GOES-12 visible images (Java animation)\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/04\/070403_g12_vis.html\">Java animation<\/a>)<\/span> showed better details of the fog\/stratus with the 1-km resolution channel; it is interesting to note that the fog\/stratus appeared to thicken as a &#8220;shock wave&#8221; formed along the leading edge upon reaching Cape Henry in the Norfolk\/Virginia Beach area (<strong>MODIS true color images: <a title=\"Terra MODIS true color image\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/eosdb.ssec.wisc.edu\/modisdirect\/terra\/calibratedImages\/2007\/093\/2007-04-03_1521-1530_HNOR_010403_QKM.jpg\">Terra<\/a> | <a title=\"Aqua MODIS true color image\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/eosdb.ssec.wisc.edu\/modisdirect\/aqua\/calibratedImages\/2007\/093\/2007-04-03_1839-1852_HNOR_010403_QKM.jpg\">Aqua<\/a><\/strong>).<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"GOES-12 visible image\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/04\/070403_G12_VIS_13A.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"GOES-12 visible image\" title=\"GOES-12 visible image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2007\/04\/070403_G12_VIS_13A.GIF\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shallow bank of fog and stratus cloud was moving southward along the Delaware\/Maryland\/Virginia coast during the pre-dawn and early morning hours on 03 April 2007. GOES-12 3.9\u00c2\u00b5m InfraRed (IR) imagery (above; Java animation) shows that the fog\/stratus feature appeared to be &#8220;channeled&#8221; along the colder waters that were located immediately offshore (between the coastline [&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":[13,19,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fog-detection","category-goes-12","category-marine-weather","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","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=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}