{"id":386,"date":"2007-04-11T23:23:19","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T23:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2007\/04\/11\/undular-bore-over-the-gulf-coast-region\/"},"modified":"2007-06-06T14:36:49","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T14:36:49","slug":"undular-bore-over-the-gulf-coast-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/386","title":{"rendered":"Undular bore over the Gulf Coast region"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-12<\/a><\/p>\n

GOES-12 visible channel images (above; Java animation<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> revealed an undular bore<\/strong><\/a> that was propagating southeastward across the Gulf Coast region of the US on 11 April 2007<\/strong><\/a>. This feature was aligned along a pre-frontal trough axis<\/strong><\/a> that was located ahead of an advancing cold front. A closer view of the southwestern end of the bore (below; Java animation<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> shows the fine wave cloud structure as the feature moved over the Gulf of Mexico (the wave train contained as many as 15-20 individual, narrow “roll cloud” bands). Rawinsonde data from Corpus Christi and Brownsville Texas<\/strong><\/a> showed that a very pronounced temperature inversion<\/em> was present in the 1200-2300 ft (360-700 m)<\/strong> layer above the surface, which likely acted as a ducting mechanism for the bore; GOES-12 10.7\u00c2\u00b5m InfraRed (IR) imagery<\/strong><\/a> exhibited fairly warm (+12 to +16 C)<\/strong> brightness temperatures in the area of the bore clouds, suggesting that those cloud features were at or below the top of the inversion. Note how the northward-moving marine layer cloud features that were present offshore appeared to dissipate with the passage of the undular bore. A similar case was seen in that same general region on GOES-10 rapid-scan imagery on 19 March 1998<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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GOES-12 visible channel images (above; Java animation) revealed an undular bore that was propagating southeastward across the Gulf Coast region of the US on 11 April 2007. This feature was aligned along a pre-frontal trough axis that was located ahead of an advancing cold front. A closer view of the southwestern end of the bore […]<\/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":[10,19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-12","category-marine-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}