{"id":5005,"date":"2010-04-06T19:14:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T19:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=5005"},"modified":"2010-04-10T04:13:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T04:13:40","slug":"goes-15-first-full-disk-visible-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/5005","title":{"rendered":"GOES-15: first full disk visible image"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"GOES-15:<\/a>

GOES-15: first full disk visible image (click image to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

The first official GOES-15 full disk visible image (above)<\/em><\/strong> became available at 17:33 UTC on 06 April 2010<\/strong>. For more details, see the SSEC Spotlight<\/a><\/strong> and the NOAA News<\/a><\/strong> pages. GOES-15 (GOES-P<\/a><\/strong>) is the final spacecraft in the GOES N\/O\/P series<\/a><\/strong> — the next quantum leap in GOES satellite capabilities will come with the launch of GOES-R<\/a><\/strong> in 2015. GOES-R will include the improved 16-channel Advanced Baseline Imager<\/a><\/strong> (ABI).<\/p>\n

The GOES-15 satellite will go through its post launch science test<\/a><\/strong> during the Summer of 2010.<\/p>\n

A few close-up views from this GOES-15 full disk visible image (plus some comparisons between the 17:33 UTC image and the following 18:02 UTC image)<\/em> are shown below:<\/p>\n

\"Northern<\/a>

Northern Hudson Bay and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (showing some areas of ice-free water)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Frozen<\/a>

Frozen Lake Winnipeg in southern Manitoba, Canada<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Cumulus<\/a>

Cumulus development along a cold front in eastern Kansas<\/p><\/div>\n

Within a few hours, the cumulus clouds seen forming along the cold front in eastern Kansas (above)<\/em><\/strong> developed into severe thunderstorms that produced hail up to 1.75 inch in diameter and wind gusts to 70 mph<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"San<\/a>

San Francisco Bay and the snow-covered Sierra Nevada mountains<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Smoke<\/a>

Smoke plumes from small fires burning in the Florida panhandle region<\/p><\/div>\n

The small fires producing smoke plumes seen in the Florida panhandle region (above)<\/em><\/strong> were but 3 of a large number of fires burning across the Southeast US on 06 April, according to the CIMSS Wildfire-ABBA<\/a><\/strong> product and the NOAA Hazards Mapping System<\/a><\/strong> product.<\/p>\n

\"Smoke<\/a>

Smoke drifting northward across the southern Gulf of Mexico<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Stratocumulus<\/a>

Stratocumulus deck over the Rio Grande Valley region, with cirrus drifting overhead<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Saharan<\/a>

Saharan dust blowing westward over the tropical Atlantic Ocean<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Fingers<\/a>

Fingers of fog reaching into the valleys along the western slopes of the Andes in Chile<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The center of a large cyclone in the South Pacific Ocean<\/p><\/div>\n

Perhaps the most striking feature on the GOES-15 full disk visible image was the rather large cloud swirl associated with a cyclone located over the far southern portion of the South Pacific Ocean, west of the southern tip of South America (surface analysis<\/a><\/strong>). While it was large in size, it did not have access to a significant amount of moisture, as indicated by the MIMIC Total Precipitable Water<\/a><\/strong> product. A GOES-15 visible image close-up view of the center of the cyclone (above)<\/em><\/strong> showed the occluded front spiraling inward toward the center of the storm’s circulation.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-11,<\/a>

GOES-11, GOES-15, GOES-13, and GOES-12 visible images (White Sands, NM)<\/p><\/div>\n

Comparisons of visible images from GOES-11 (GOES-West), GOES-15, GOES-13, and GOES-12 (GOES-East) are shown for the White Sands, New Mexico area (above)<\/em><\/strong> and also for clouds with embedded convection producing precipitation over northern Iowa (below)<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-11,<\/a>

GOES-11, GOES-13, GOES-15, and GOES-12 visible images (northern Iowa)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first official GOES-15 full disk visible image (above) became available at 17:33 UTC on 06 April 2010. For more details, see the SSEC Spotlight and the NOAA News pages. GOES-15 (GOES-P) is the final spacecraft in the GOES N\/O\/P series — the next quantum leap in GOES satellite capabilities will come with the launch […]<\/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":[10,18,19,11,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-11","category-goes-12","category-goes-13","category-goes-15"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005","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=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5091,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions\/5091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}