{"id":43199,"date":"2021-11-10T21:46:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T21:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=43199"},"modified":"2021-11-11T21:55:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T21:55:42","slug":"cyclonic-development-in-the-indian-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/43199","title":{"rendered":"Cyclonic Development in the Indian Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A tropical cyclone has developed in the Bay of Bengal and is moving northwest across the Indian subcontinent. The system is forecast to continue bringing heavy rains to Southern India until Thursday. It has already caused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/india\/heavy-rains-sri-lanka-south-india-kill-least-25-2021-11-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">damage<\/a>, flooding, and loss of life in Sri Lanka and India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Animations showing water vapor data from the Himawari-8 satellite&#8217;s Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) can be found below. The first animation highlights cyclonic structure developing over the past two days every hour. In the final frame, a distinct eye is visible. Similar to the ABI aboard GOES-16\/17, AHI collects data every ten minutes. The second animation shows the ten-minute temporal resolution of AHI for a shorter time period, zooming to see the &#8216;eye&#8217; of the storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1210\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 2044 \/ 1210;\" width=\"2044\" controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/11\/indianocean111021-1.mov\"><\/video><figcaption>An hourly animation spanning 48 hours visualizing cyclone development using AHI Band 9 data in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">RealEarth<\/a>, from 11\/8\/2021 20:57 UTC to 11\/10\/2021 20:57 UTC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1200\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 2044 \/ 1200;\" width=\"2044\" controls loop muted src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/11\/tcdevelopzoom.mov\"><\/video><figcaption>A zoomed-in view using the ten-minute data from AHI Band 9 data in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">RealEarth<\/a>, on 11\/10\/2021 from 13:50 UTC to 22:10 UTC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These animations were made using RealEarth, a free data discovery and visualization platform developed at SSEC\/CIMSS at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is available to anyone at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">realearth.ssec.wisc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\/products\/\">RealEarth<\/a> also contains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/products\/janowiak\/cmorph_description.html\">CMORPH<\/a> estimates (hourly, daily and weekly) of precipitation.  The daily precipitation from 10 November over the Bay of Bengal is shown below.  The highest value in the colorbar is 150 mm &#8212; but in reality, the heaviest accumulations over the Bay of Bengal exceeded 300 mm!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/11\/24HrRain10Nov2021.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/11\/24HrRain10Nov2021-1024x688.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/11\/24HrRain10Nov2021-1024x688.png 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/11\/24HrRain10Nov2021-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/11\/24HrRain10Nov2021-768x516.png 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/11\/24HrRain10Nov2021.png 1269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Accumulated precipitation, estimated from CMORPH, for the 24 hours ending 2359 UTC on 10 November 2021 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tropical cyclone has developed in the Bay of Bengal and is moving northwest across the Indian subcontinent. The system is forecast to continue bringing heavy rains to Southern India until Thursday. It has already caused damage, flooding, and loss of life in Sri Lanka and India. 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