{"id":41783,"date":"2021-08-08T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=41783"},"modified":"2021-08-10T13:04:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T13:04:58","slug":"sar-winds-over-tropical-storm-mirinae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/41783","title":{"rendered":"SAR winds over Tropical Storm Mirinae"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Himawari-8 “Red visible” (0.64 \u00b5m) on 2010 UTC on 8 August 2021, data courtesy JMA (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tropical Storm Mirinae, shown above, to the east of Japan (click here<\/a> to see the same image with latitude\/longitude lines), was overflown on 8 August by Radar Constellation Mission Satellite one (RCM-1) at 2013 UTC. The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery (from this site<\/a>) is shown below, with both polarities. The two polarities help mitigate wind speed errors that might arise from ice. A peak wind of nearly 60 knots is indicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RCM1 Synthetic Aperture Radar winds, 2013 UTC on 8 August 2021, HH Polarization at 5.4 GHz (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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RCM1 Synthetic Aperture Radar winds, 2013 UTC on 8 August 2021, HV Polarization at 5.4 GHz (click to enlarge) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The storm profile winds from the Mirinae at this time are shown below (courtesy Christopher Jackson, GST\/NOAA). Such plots are useful for determining max wind radii.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mirinae SAR winds as a function of distance from the center, 2013 UTC o 8 August 2021 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Tropical Storm Mirinae, shown above, to the east of Japan (click here to see the same image with latitude\/longitude lines), was overflown on 8 August by Radar Constellation Mission Satellite one (RCM-1) at 2013 UTC. The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery (from this site) is shown below, with both polarities. The two polarities help mitigate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":41787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,79,104,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-8","category-microwave","category-sar","category-satellite-winds","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41783","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=41783"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41811,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41783\/revisions\/41811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}