{"id":40175,"date":"2021-03-10T23:59:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T23:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=40175"},"modified":"2021-03-12T16:50:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T16:50:29","slug":"cyclone-habana-in-the-south-indian-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/40175","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Habana in the South Indian Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210310_ewsG1_infrared_Cyclone_Habana_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/G13_IR_HABANA_10MAR2021_B4_2021069_121500_GOES-13_0001PANEL_FRAME0000024.GIF\" alt=\"US Space Force EWS-G1 Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"641\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Space Force EWS-G1 Infrared Window <em>(10.7 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210310_ewsG1_infrared_Cyclone_Habana_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>US Space Force EWS-G1 Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m) images<em><strong> (above)<\/strong> <\/em>displayed the well-defined eye and eyewall structure of Cyclone Habana in the South Indian Ocean on 10 March 2021. This was the second period of Category 4 intensity (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210310_adt_Habana.gif\"><strong>ADT<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210310_satcon_Habana.png\"><strong>SATCON<\/strong><\/a>) during the life cycle of Habana.<\/p>\n<p>Meteosat-8 Infrared images with contours of <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/misc\/winds\/info.winds.shr.html\"><strong>deep-layer wind shear<\/strong><\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that Habana was moving through an environment of relatively low shear.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210310_meteosat8_infrared_shear_Habana_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210310_meteosat8_infrared_shear_Habana_anim.gif\" alt=\"Meteosat-8 Infrared images, with contours of deep-layer wind shear [click to enlarge]\" width=\"643\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meteosat-8 Infrared images, with contours of deep-layer wind shear [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Meteosat-8 Infrared images with an overlay of 1505 UTC Metop ASCAT winds <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> depicted a fairly uniform distribution of winds within the eyewall region, as Habana developed an annular structure.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210310_meteosat8_infrared_ascat_Habana_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210310_meteosat8_infrared_ascat_Habana_anim.gif\" alt=\"Meteosat-8 Infrared images, with a plot of Metop ASCAT winds [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meteosat-8 Infrared images, with a plot of Metop ASCAT winds [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) images from DMSP-16 at 1139 UTC and DMSP-18 at 2327 UTC are shown below.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210310_1139utc_dmsp16_ssmis_Habana.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210310_1139utc_dmsp16_ssmis_Habana.gif\" alt=\"DMSP-16 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) image at 1139 UTC [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">DMSP-16 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) image at 1139 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210310_2327utc_dmsp18_ssmis_Habana.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210310_2327utc_dmsp18_ssmis_Habana.gif\" alt=\"DMSP-18 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) image at 2327 UTC [click to enlarge]\" width=\"643\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">DMSP-18 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) image at 2327 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Space Force EWS-G1 Infrared Window (10.7 \u00b5m) images (above) displayed the well-defined eye and eyewall structure of Cyclone Habana in the South Indian Ocean on 10 March 2021. This was the second period of Category 4 intensity (ADT | SATCON) during the life cycle of Habana. Meteosat-8 Infrared images with contours of deep-layer wind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":40184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,92,58,79,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dmsp","category-ews-g1","category-metop","category-microwave","category-satellite-winds","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40175","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=40175"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40201,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40175\/revisions\/40201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}