{"id":43629,"date":"2021-12-03T17:37:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T17:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=43629"},"modified":"2021-12-03T21:56:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:56:58","slug":"cyclonic-storm-jawad-and-typhoon-nyatoh-in-gk2a-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/43629","title":{"rendered":"Cyclonic Storm Jawad and Typhoon Nyatoh in GK2A imagery"},"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\/12\/gk2a_ami_le1b_enhc-wv073_fd020ge_20211203_0740_to_1640anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1375\" height=\"1409\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/gk2a_ami_le1b_enhc-wv073_fd020ge_20211203_0740_to_1640anim.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43630\" \/><\/a><figcaption>GK2A Low-level water vapor (Band 10, 7.3 \u00b5m), hourly from 0740 to 1640 UTC on 3 December 2021 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea&#8217;s GK2A satellite (carrying the AMI instrument that is very similar to both AHI on Himawari-8 and ABI on GOES-16\/GOES-17) is overhead on the Equator at 128 E Longitude, and satellite imagery (<a href=\"http:\/\/nmsc.kma.go.kr\/enhome\/html\/satellite\/viewer\/selectGk2aSatViewer.do?view=basic#\">link<\/a>) and products (<a href=\"http:\/\/nmsc.kma.go.kr\/enhome\/html\/satellite\/viewer\/selectGk2aSatViewer.do?view=product#\">link<\/a>) are available online.  The low-level Water Vapor animation (GK2A Band 10, 7.3 \u00b5m), above, hourly from 0740 to 1640 UTC on 3 December 2021, shows the evolution of Nyotah from a symmetric to asymmetric storm in the central Pacific.  The <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/Nyatoh_1500_3DecemberAdvisory.gif\">1500 UTC Advisory<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoc.navy.mil\/jtwc\/jtwc.html\">Joint Typhoon Warning Center<\/a> shows a storm south and east of Japan that is forecast to weaken significantly in the next two days.  The animation also shows Jawad in the Bay of Bengal in a moist corridor between very dry low-level air over southeast Asia and western India\/the Arabian Sea.  The <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/Jawad_1500_3DecemberAdvisory.gif\">1500 UTC advisory<\/a> for Jawad suggests modest strengthening in the next day then landfall near the border of India and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MIMIC Total Precipitable Water fields for the 24 hours ending 1600 UTC on 3 December 2021, below, show drying around Nyotah, and the deep (but somewhat isolated) moisture surrounding Jawad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/mimictpw_global2_17UTC_2Dec_to16UTC_3Dec2021.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/mimictpw_global2_17UTC_2Dec_to16UTC_3Dec2021.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43633\" \/><\/a><figcaption>MIMIC Total Precipitable Water fields, 1700 UTC 2 December &#8211; 1600 UTC 3 December 2021 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the products available at the GK2A product site is Rain Rate, and a toggle of that product at 1540 UTC (overlain on top of clean window infrared imagery) and low-level water vapor imagery is shown below.  Heaviest instantaneous rains are diagnosed in the ITCZ Monsoon trough centered near Indonesia.<\/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\/12\/gk2a_ami_le2_band10_rr_fd020ge_202112031540toggle.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1375\" height=\"1409\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/gk2a_ami_le2_band10_rr_fd020ge_202112031540toggle.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43634\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/nmsc.kma.go.kr\/enhome\/html\/main\/main.do\">KMA<\/a> for making these awesome products and channels available!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s GK2A satellite (carrying the AMI instrument that is very similar to both AHI on Himawari-8 and ABI on GOES-16\/GOES-17) is overhead on the Equator at 128 E Longitude, and satellite imagery (link) and products (link) are available online. The low-level Water Vapor animation (GK2A Band 10, 7.3 \u00b5m), above, hourly from 0740 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":43636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,79,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gk2a","category-microwave","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43629","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=43629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43652,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43629\/revisions\/43652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}