{"id":39088,"date":"2020-12-01T18:19:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T18:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=39088"},"modified":"2021-01-10T20:09:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T20:09:33","slug":"daily-viirs-true-color-images-from-noaa-20-for-the-great-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/39088","title":{"rendered":"Daily VIIRS True-Color images from NOAA-20 for the Great Lakes in November 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_39091\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/noaa20_viirs_true_color_November2020LakeErieStepanim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39091\" class=\"wp-image-39091\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/noaa20_viirs_true_color_20201101_173723_LakeErieannot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daily true-color images from NOAA-20 VIIRS over Lake Erie, 1-30 November 2020 (Click to animate)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>CIMSS provides sectorized VIIRS true-color imagery for each of the five Great Lakes, and for the entire Great Lakes basin at the Direct Broadcast ftp site (<a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.ssec.wisc.edu\/pub\/eosdb\/j01\/viirs\/\">ftp:\/\/ftp.ssec.wisc.edu\/pub\/eosdb\/j01\/viirs\/<\/a> and <a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.ssec.wisc.edu\/pub\/eosdb\/npp\/viirs\">ftp:\/\/ftp.ssec.wisc.edu\/pub\/eosdb\/npp\/viirs<\/a> for NOAA-20 and Suomi-NPP, respectively). The imagery above shows NOAA-20 images saved from that site and merged together to make an animation (except for 12, 13, 14 November. <em>Mea Culpa<\/em>) over Lake Erie. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/noaa20_viirs_true_color_November2020LakeErieStepanim.mp4\">here<\/a> to view the animation as an mp4. (Additional animations for the other Great Lakes have also been created:\u00a0 Lake Ontario in <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/noaa20_viirs_true_color_November2020LakeOntarioStepanim.gif\">animated gif<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/noaa20_viirs_true_color_November2020LakeOntarioStepanim.mp4\">mp4<\/a>) Lake Huron in <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/noaa20_viirs_true_color_November2020LakeHuronStepanim.gif\">animated gif<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/noaa20_viirs_true_color_November2020LakeHuronStepanim.mp4\">mp4<\/a> ; Lake Michigan in <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/noaa20_viirs_true_color_November2020LakeMichiganStepanim.gif\">animated gif<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/noaa20_viirs_true_color_November2020LakeMichiganStepanim.mp4\">mp4<\/a>; Lake Superior in <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/noaa20_viirs_true_color_November2020LakeSuperiorStepanim.gif\">animated gif<\/a> ; <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/noaa20_viirs_true_color_November2020LakeSuperiorStepanim.mp4\">mp4<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The daily views allow a user to view slow changes in the Lake&#8217;s circulation &#8212; when skies are clear. Such was the case on 8, 9 and 10 November, shown below. A slow anticyclonic motion in the widest part of central Lake Erie is apparent.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39090\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/noaa20_viirs_true_color_20201108_09_10_LakeErieannotStep.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39090\" class=\"wp-image-39090\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/12\/noaa20_viirs_true_color_20201108_09_10_LakeErieannotStep.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39090\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA-20 VIIRS true-color imagery over Lake Erie on 8, 9, and 10 November 2020 (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIMSS provides sectorized VIIRS true-color imagery for each of the five Great Lakes, and for the entire Great Lakes basin at the Direct Broadcast ftp site (ftp:\/\/ftp.ssec.wisc.edu\/pub\/eosdb\/j01\/viirs\/ and ftp:\/\/ftp.ssec.wisc.edu\/pub\/eosdb\/npp\/viirs for NOAA-20 and Suomi-NPP, respectively). The imagery above shows NOAA-20 images saved from that site and merged together to make an animation (except for 12, 13, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":39090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noaa-20"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39088","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=39088"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39617,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39088\/revisions\/39617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}