{"id":38518,"date":"2020-10-09T06:40:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T06:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=38518"},"modified":"2020-10-09T13:38:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T13:38:15","slug":"typhoon-chanhom-south-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/38518","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Chanhom south of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_38521\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/10\/H84Panel_ChanHom-20201008_2314_to_20201009_0532anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38521\" class=\"wp-image-38521\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/10\/H84Panel_ChanHom-20201008_231443.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 Target Sector over Typhoon Chanhom, 2314 UTC 8 October to 0532 UTC 9 October (Click to animate). Band 2, Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, upper left); Band 5 &#8220;Snow\/Ice&#8221; (1.61 \u00b5m, upper right); Band 10, Low-level Water Vapor (7.3 \u00b5m, lower left); Band 13, Clean Window (10.4 \u00b5m, lower right)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Multi-spectral views from Himawari-8&#8217;s &#8220;Target Sector&#8221; that provides 2-minute imagery, above, show weakening Typhoon Chan-hom south of Japan. The Typhoon shows a sheared structure, with the surface circulation southwest of the main convection, a shift that is especially evident in the Band 5 1.61 \u00b5m channel that differentiates between low clouds containing water droplets and upper clouds containing ice crystals. (Himawari data courtesy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/jma\/indexe.html\">Japan Meteorological Agency<\/a>.)\u00a0 A 24-hour animation (ending at 0500 UTC on 9 October) of <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/10\/EPAC_Chanhom_ending_0500_09Octobermimictpw_wpac_latest.gif\">Mimic Total Precipitable water<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mtpw2\/product.php?color_type=tpw_nrl_colors&amp;prod=wpac&amp;timespan=24hrs&amp;anim=anigf\">from this site<\/a>) shows that the storm is surrounded by dry air to the north and west.<\/p>\n<p>An analysis of Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit (AMSU) Channel 7 (54.94 GHz), below, (from <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/\">this site<\/a>) shows a warm anomaly over the storm.\u00a0 Atmospheric shear (200-850 mb) is also shown in this figure, and the storm is approaching a region of high shear.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38520\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/10\/AMSUCh7_and_shear_0300_09Oct.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38520\" class=\"wp-image-38520\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/10\/AMSUCh7_and_shear_0300_09Oct.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/10\/AMSUCh7_and_shear_0300_09Oct.png 1100w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/10\/AMSUCh7_and_shear_0300_09Oct-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/10\/AMSUCh7_and_shear_0300_09Oct-1024x689.png 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/10\/AMSUCh7_and_shear_0300_09Oct-768x517.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AMSU Channel 7 temperatures, 0058 UTC on 9 October 2020; Wind shear (contoured in green, yellow and red) from 850-200 mb, 0300 UTC on 9 October 2020 (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multi-spectral views from Himawari-8&#8217;s &#8220;Target Sector&#8221; that provides 2-minute imagery, above, show weakening Typhoon Chan-hom south of Japan. The Typhoon shows a sheared structure, with the surface circulation southwest of the main convection, a shift that is especially evident in the Band 5 1.61 \u00b5m channel that differentiates between low clouds containing water droplets and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":38522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,47,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-8","category-other-satellites","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38518","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38518"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38528,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38518\/revisions\/38528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}