{"id":44889,"date":"2022-02-28T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=44889"},"modified":"2023-09-16T00:36:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T00:36:44","slug":"turbulence-associated-with-transverse-cloud-banding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/44889","title":{"rendered":"Turbulence associated with transverse cloud banding"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Near-Infrared “Cirrus” (1.38 \u00b5m), Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images [click to play animated GIF]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), Near-Infrared “Cirrus” (1.37 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> displayed a pattern of transverse cloud banding over parts of the Upper Midwest on 28 February 2022<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 This type of transverse banding is often a signature of an enhanced potential of middle- to high-altitude turbulence — so not surprisingly, there were several pilot reports of light to moderate turbulence in the vicinity of these cloud bands.<\/p>\n

A closer view of the transverse banding over Minnesota and Wisconsin at 2301 UTC is shown below.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Near-Infrared “Cirrus” (1.38 \u00b5m), Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images at 2301 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Hourly GOES-16 Near-Infrared “Cirrus” images with contours of RAP40 model Maximum Wind isotachs (below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that this pattern of transverse banding was occurring within the left exit region of an anomalously-strong<\/strong><\/a> anticyclonically-curved upper tropospheric jet streak — consistent with the findings of a study by Trier and Sharman<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 Near-Infrared “Cirrus” (1.38 \u00b5m) images, with contours of RAP40 model Maximum Wind isotachs plotted in yellow [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Such transverse banding cloud features are frequently observed around the periphery of decaying MCSs (for example, July 2020<\/strong><\/a> , June 2018<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0July 2016<\/strong><\/a>) and in the vicinity of strong upper-tropospheric jet streaks (for example,\u00a0February 2020<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0March 2016<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Near-Infrared “Cirrus” (1.37 \u00b5m), Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 \u00b5m) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images (above) displayed a pattern of transverse cloud banding over parts of the Upper Midwest on 28 February 2022.\u00a0 This type of transverse banding is often a signature of an enhanced potential of middle- […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":44909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation","category-goes-16"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44889","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44889"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54469,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44889\/revisions\/54469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}