{"id":40966,"date":"2021-05-27T12:59:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T12:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=40966"},"modified":"2021-05-30T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T14:56:10","slug":"subtropical-storm-in-the-south-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/40966","title":{"rendered":"Subtropical storm in the South Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-17<\/a>

GOES-17 “Red” Visible (0.64 um)<\/em> images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-17 (GOES-West)<\/em> “Red” Visible (0.64 um<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong> <\/em>showed the development of a subtropical storm in the South Pacific Ocean (just northeast of New Zealand) on 27 May 2021. Surface analyses from the New Zealand Met Service<\/strong><\/a> are available here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

GOES-17 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 um<\/strong><\/a>) images (below)<\/strong><\/em> highlighted the curved band of cold-topped convection wrapping into the deepening storm.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-17<\/a>

GOES-17 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 um)<\/em> images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A NOAA-20 Infrared Window (11.45 um) image viewed using RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed a higher resolution view of the band of cold clouds wrapping into the system at 1206 UTC.<\/p>\n

\"NOAA-20<\/a>

NOAA-20 Infrared Window (11.45 um)<\/em> image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>With ample illumination from the Moon — in the Waning Gibbous phase, at 98% of Full — a Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 um)<\/em> image (below)<\/strong><\/em> provided a high-quality “visible image at night” at 1256 UTC (12:56 am NZST).<\/p>\n

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 um)<\/em> image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP ATMS Microwave (183.3 GHz)<\/em> image (credit: Derrick Herndon, CIMSS) [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A Suomi NPP ATMS Microwave (183.3 GHz) image (above)<\/strong><\/em> portrayed the spiral band wrapping into the core of the system at 1256 UTC, while a cross section of Suomi NPP ATMS Brightness Temperature anomaly (below)<\/em><\/strong> depicted the deep warm core (shades of green)<\/em> characteristic of the subtropical cyclone.<\/p>\n

\"Cross<\/a>

Cross section of Suomi NPP ATMS Brightness Temperature anomaly (credit: Derrick Herndon, CIMSS) [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 um) images (above) showed the development of a subtropical storm in the South Pacific Ocean (just northeast of New Zealand) on 27 May 2021. Surface analyses from the New Zealand Met Service are available here. GOES-17 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 um) images (below) highlighted the curved band of cold-topped convection […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":40968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,80,78,53,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atms","category-goes-17","category-noaa-20","category-real-earth","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40966","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=40966"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40990,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40966\/revisions\/40990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}