{"id":492,"date":"2007-08-22T21:40:30","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T21:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2007\/08\/22\/hurricane-dean-in-the-gulf-of-mexico\/"},"modified":"2007-08-24T18:44:24","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T18:44:24","slug":"hurricane-dean-in-the-gulf-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/492","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Dean in the Gulf of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-12<\/a><\/p>\n

After crossing the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, Hurricane Dean emerged into the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 1 storm late in the day on 21 August 2007<\/strong><\/a>. GOES-12 10.7\u00c2\u00b5m IR imagery (above)<\/strong><\/em> shows a ragged eye associated with Dean; also note the burst of convection to the north and northwest of the eye (beginning around 00:45 UTC on 22 August)<\/em>. This area of convection continued to increase in areal coverage, with IR brightness temperatures eventually cooling to -80\u00c2\u00ba C \/ -112\u00c2\u00ba F (black enhancement)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"AWIPS<\/a><\/p>\n

An AWIPS image of the MODIS Sea Surface Temperature (SST) product from 20 August (above)<\/strong><\/em> reveals a region of warmer SST values in the general area where the convective burst was seen to form on the IR imagery above. SST values were as warm as 86.7\u00c2\u00ba F \/ 30.4\u00c2\u00ba C (dark red enhancement)<\/em>, and this pocket of deep, warm water may have helped to fuel the burst of convection.<\/p>\n

\"MODIS<\/a><\/p>\n

MODIS true color imagery of the Yucatan Peninsula before Dean (above)<\/strong><\/em> and after Dean (below)<\/strong><\/em> show that the hurricane winds increased the levels of turbidity in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, leading to widespread areas of cyan and milky-colored water off the west coast of the Yucatan (due to a large amount of suspended particulate matter in the water).<\/p>\n

\"MODIS
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After crossing the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, Hurricane Dean emerged into the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 1 storm late in the day on 21 August 2007. GOES-12 10.7\u00c2\u00b5m IR imagery (above) shows a ragged eye associated with Dean; also note the burst of convection to the north and northwest of the eye (beginning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-12","category-modis","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","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=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}