{"id":40443,"date":"2021-03-31T23:06:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T23:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=40443"},"modified":"2021-05-26T21:26:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T21:26:43","slug":"nucaps-description-of-a-post-frontal-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/40443","title":{"rendered":"NUCAPS&#8217; description of a post-frontal atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_40444\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/GOES16-ABIBand02-LapseRate_MixR_20210331_1901stepanim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40444\" class=\"wp-image-40444\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/GOES16-ABIBand02-LapseRate_MixR_20210331_1901stepanim.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"654\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 ABI Band 02 (0.64 \u00b5m) visible imagery, 1901 UTC, and NUCAPS estimates of Lapse Rate and Mixing Ratio at 925-700 mb, and 700-300 mb (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The animation above cycles through <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/GOES16-ABIBand02-20210331_190127.png\">GOES-16 Visible Imagery<\/a> (0.64 \u00b5m) at 1901 UTC as well as simultaneous observations (from NUCAPS) of Lapse Rates (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/LapseRate700-300-20210331_190127.png\">925-700 mb<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/LapseRate700-300-20210331_190127.png\">700-300 mb<\/a>) and Mixing Ratio (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/MixR925-700-20210331_190127.png\">925-700 mb<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/MixR700-300-20210331_190127.png\">700-300<\/a> mb). Thermodynamic information from NUCAPS complements information about the atmosphere that can be inferred by the GOES-16 imagery.<\/p>\n<p>There are very strong low-level (925-700) lapse rates around Missouri behind the cold front that stretches over the south.\u00a0 \u00a0The atmosphere there is also very dry.\u00a0 The smaller lapse rates at higher altitudes (700-300) also are in a region of very dry air.\u00a0 \u00a0NUCAPS Soundings from <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/NUCAPS_Sounding_DSM_31March2021.png\">Des Moines<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/NUCAPS_Sounding_MKC_31March2021.png\">Kansas City<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/NUCAPS_Sounding_STL_31March2021.png\">St Louis<\/a> show the inversion that exists between the steep low-level lapse rates and smaller upper-level lapse rates.  There is a much smaller change in lapse rates over the southeastern United States, with small stability all through the troposphere.<\/p>\n<p>NUCAPS thermodynamic fields also capture the relatively moist air within the cloud features in northeastern Iowa, with strong low-level lapse rates on either side of the cloud field there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The animation above cycles through GOES-16 Visible Imagery (0.64 \u00b5m) at 1901 UTC as well as simultaneous observations (from NUCAPS) of Lapse Rates (925-700 mb and 700-300 mb) and Mixing Ratio (925-700 mb and 700-300 mb). Thermodynamic information from NUCAPS complements information about the atmosphere that can be inferred by the GOES-16 imagery. There are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":40448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,78,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-noaa-20","category-nucaps"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40443","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=40443"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40956,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40443\/revisions\/40956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}