{"id":41302,"date":"2021-06-28T12:43:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T12:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=41302"},"modified":"2021-08-10T13:07:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T13:07:29","slug":"sar-winds-over-lake-michigan-compared-with-radar-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/41302","title":{"rendered":"SAR Winds over Lake Michigan compared with Radar winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_41303\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/RCM3_SHUB_2021_06_28_12_01_08_0678196868_087.36W_43.19N_VV_C5_GFS05CDF_wind.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41303\" class=\"wp-image-41303\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/RCM3_SHUB_2021_06_28_12_01_08_0678196868_087.36W_43.19N_VV_C5_GFS05CDF_wind.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/RCM3_SHUB_2021_06_28_12_01_08_0678196868_087.36W_43.19N_VV_C5_GFS05CDF_wind.png 1800w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/RCM3_SHUB_2021_06_28_12_01_08_0678196868_087.36W_43.19N_VV_C5_GFS05CDF_wind-272x300.png 272w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/RCM3_SHUB_2021_06_28_12_01_08_0678196868_087.36W_43.19N_VV_C5_GFS05CDF_wind-928x1024.png 928w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/RCM3_SHUB_2021_06_28_12_01_08_0678196868_087.36W_43.19N_VV_C5_GFS05CDF_wind-768x848.png 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/RCM3_SHUB_2021_06_28_12_01_08_0678196868_087.36W_43.19N_VV_C5_GFS05CDF_wind-1391x1536.png 1391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCM3 SAR winds over Lake Michigan, 1201 UTC on 28 June 2021 (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>RADARSAT Constellation Mission 3 (RCM3) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) wind data over southern Lake Michigan at 1201 UTC on 28 June, above (click to enlarge, taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov\/socd\/mecb\/sar\/AKDEMO_products\/APL_winds\/wind_images_nic\/sarwinds_calendar_now.html\">this website<\/a>), shows a small region of strong winds just offshore of southeast Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois.&nbsp; GOES-16 Band 2 visible imagery (clipped from the <a href=\"https:\/\/geosphere.ssec.wisc.edu\/#coordinate:0,0;\">CSPP Geosphere<\/a> website, click <a href=\"https:\/\/geosphere.ssec.wisc.edu\/#coordinate:-969267,4058272;zoom:6.5;product:C02;num_frames:1;start_time:2021-06-28T12:00:00Z;timeframe:Start%20Time;\">here<\/a> for the direct link to the imagery &#8212; valid until mid-July) shows modest convection just off the Wisconsin\/Illinois shorelines.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41305\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/G16Band02_1200_28June2021.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41305\" class=\"wp-image-41305\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/G16Band02_1200_28June2021.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/G16Band02_1200_28June2021.png 1558w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/G16Band02_1200_28June2021-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/G16Band02_1200_28June2021-1024x409.png 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/G16Band02_1200_28June2021-768x307.png 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/G16Band02_1200_28June2021-1536x614.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CSPP Geosphere visualization of GOES-16 Visible (Band 2, 0.64) imagery, 1200 UTC on 28 June 2021 (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Winds from the Sullivan WI (WFO MKX) radar, below, (courtesy John Gagan, SOO), show a similar structure. The challenge in comparing the SAR winds and the radar winds: The Sullivan radar beam in that location is about 5000 feet above the surface. Storm-relative velocities are about 20 kt.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41307\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/kmkx_20210628_1201.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41307\" class=\"wp-image-41307\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/kmkx_20210628_1201.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/kmkx_20210628_1201.png 1683w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/kmkx_20210628_1201-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/kmkx_20210628_1201-1024x588.png 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/kmkx_20210628_1201-768x441.png 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/kmkx_20210628_1201-1536x882.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1201 UTC WFO MKX Radar display showing Base Reflectivity (upper left), Storm Relative Velocities (upper right), ZDR (Lower left) and Base velocities (lower right).&nbsp; Beam angle of 0.5 degrees. (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RADARSAT Constellation Mission 3 (RCM3) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) wind data over southern Lake Michigan at 1201 UTC on 28 June, above (click to enlarge, taken from this website), shows a small region of strong winds just offshore of southeast Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois.&nbsp; GOES-16 Band 2 visible imagery (clipped from the CSPP Geosphere website, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":41303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,104,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-sar","category-satellite-winds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41302","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=41302"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41835,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41302\/revisions\/41835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}