{"id":50133,"date":"2023-02-01T21:43:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T21:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=50133"},"modified":"2023-02-01T21:43:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T21:43:53","slug":"lis-observations-just-east-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/50133","title":{"rendered":"LIS observations just east of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1524\" height=\"969\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/02\/LISPoints-20230201_0954_to_0955step.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50134\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LIS Observations to the east of Japan, 0954-0955 UTC on 1 February 2023 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) that flies on the International Space Station (ISS) observed about 20 individual flashes in about a minute to the east of Japan on 1 February 2023, as shown in the animation above.  Himawari-9 Band 13 clean window infrared (10.41 \u00b5m) imagery, below, bracketing the lightning observation times above shows a developing storm system moving out over the Pacific &#8212; the comma head of the system is over southern Hokkaido Island.  Convective development can be inferred between 35<sup>o<\/sup> and 40<sup>o<\/sup> N off the coast of Honshu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1488\" height=\"841\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/02\/H9Band13-20230201_0950_1000toggle.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50135\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Himawari-9 Clean Window infrared (10.41 \u00b5m) imagery, 0950 and 1000 UTC on 1 February 2023 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Did this system intensify, as one might expect given the presence of lightning?  It did.  The imagery below, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tropicaltidbits.com\/analysis\/models\/?model=gfs&amp;region=ea&amp;pkg=mslp_pcpn_frzn&amp;runtime=2023020100&amp;fh=12\">from this site<\/a>, shows the storm forecast to strengthen from 999 hPa at 0600 UTC to 989 hPa at 1800 UTC on 1 February.  LIS data, though infrequent, can give useful information about convection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/02\/gfs_mslp_pcpn_frzn_06_12_18_1Feb2023.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50137\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) that flies on the International Space Station (ISS) observed about 20 individual flashes in about a minute to the east of Japan on 1 February 2023, as shown in the animation above. Himawari-9 Band 13 clean window infrared (10.41 \u00b5m) imagery, below, bracketing the lightning observation times above shows a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":50138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-9","category-lightning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50133","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=50133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50139,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50133\/revisions\/50139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}