{"id":41770,"date":"2021-08-05T18:50:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T18:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=41770"},"modified":"2021-08-05T19:12:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T19:12:44","slug":"great-lakes-water-temperatures-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/41770","title":{"rendered":"Great Lakes water temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/ACSPOSSTs_Buoys-20210805_0800ObsToggle.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1296\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/ACSPOSSTs_Buoys-20210805_0800ObsToggle.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41771\" \/><\/a><figcaption>ACSPO Lake Surface Temperatures, with and without observations overlain, 0800 UTC on 5 August 2021;  The colors shown are from 50\u00baF to 80\u00baF (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear skies over the Great Lakes (except for Lake Superior) allowed for VIIRS data to record temperatures over the Great Lakes in the early morning of 5 August 2021.  <em>In situ<\/em> data from moored buoys closely match ACSPO (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov\/portfolio\/detail_ACSPO.php\">Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Oceans<\/a>) values.  Southwestern Lake Erie is warmest, with temperatures as warm as 78\u00baF (pink\/white enhancement).  Green Bay and Saginaw Bay are as warm as 75\u00baF.  The analysis below (from <a href=\"https:\/\/coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov\/glsea\/cur\/glsea_cur.png\">this link<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glerl.noaa.gov\/data\/\">Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab)<\/a> also shows values largely in agreement with the above analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AWIPS-ready files of these fields are available from the CIMSS LDM feed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov\/statistic\/avg-sst.php\">There plots of basin-wide average temperatures<\/a> suggest that the Great Lakes (except for Lake Superior) are a bit cooler in early August of this year than they have been at this time in the recent past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/GLERL_LSTAnalysis_4Aug2021.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/GLERL_LSTAnalysis_4Aug2021.png 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/GLERL_LSTAnalysis_4Aug2021-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/GLERL_LSTAnalysis_4Aug2021-768x600.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clear skies over the Great Lakes (except for Lake Superior) allowed for VIIRS data to record temperatures over the Great Lakes in the early morning of 5 August 2021. In situ data from moored buoys closely match ACSPO (Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Oceans) values. Southwestern Lake Erie is warmest, with temperatures as warm as 78\u00baF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":41771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noaa-20","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41770","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=41770"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41780,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41770\/revisions\/41780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}