{"id":50750,"date":"2023-02-09T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=50750"},"modified":"2023-07-06T16:27:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T16:27:47","slug":"noaa-star-snow-products-associated-with-a-midwestern-snowstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/50750","title":{"rendered":"NOAA\/STAR snow products associated with a midwestern snowstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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True-Color imagery from the VIIRS Instrument on Suomi NPP, 8 February 2023 (left) and 10 February 2023 (right) (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A modest snow storm affected southern\/central Wisconsin on 9 February (WFO ARX story<\/a>), depositing 6-12″ of snow in a band from northeast Iowa to central Lake Michigan, as shown above: the snowfall caused an obvious change in the Suomi NPP imagery between 08 February<\/a> and 10 February 2023<\/a>, shown above using imagery taken from the VIIRS Today<\/a> website. (A similar before\/after pair of images using GOES-16 data is below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GOES-16 True Color imagery on 8 February 2023 (left) and 10 February 2023 (right) (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A variety of NOAA\/STAR snowfall products gave information about this snowstorm during and after its passage through the midwest. The image below shows the Snowfall rate (data source<\/a>) over Wisconsin and Michigan at 1816 UTC on 9 February (derived from ATMS data on NOAA-20), and a NEXRAD radar image (from the ‘radar’ tab here<\/a>) over Wisconsin at about the same time. There is very good agreement between the two representations of falling precipitation over Wisconsin!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NOAA-20 Snowfall Rate (SFR) at 1816 UTC on 9 February 2023 (left) and NEXRAD radar at 1820 UTC on 9 February 2023 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The NOAA\/STAR cryosphere team developed AMSR-2 snow products using data from JAXA’s<\/a> GCOM-W polar orbiter. The snowdepth product, below, shows the change in snowdepth over Wisconsin between 9 February (left) and 11 February (right). The deepest diagnosed snow on 11 February in the new snow band is about 35 cm (around 13″).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Microwave estimates of snow depth on 9 February (left) and 11 February (right) 2023 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The GOES-16 Fractional Snow Cover product, below, from 1900 UTC on 11 February 2023, shows the snow band as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GOES-16 Level 2 Snow Fraction product, 1900 UTC on 11 February 2023 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Thanks to Yinghui Liu, NOAA\/STAR at CIMSS, and Huan Meng, NOAA\/STAR in College Park, for imagery for this blog post. Thanks also to Peter Romanov, CUNY\/CREST, for contributions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A modest snow storm affected southern\/central Wisconsin on 9 February (WFO ARX story), depositing 6-12″ of snow in a band from northeast Iowa to central Lake Michigan, as shown above: the snowfall caused an obvious change in the Suomi NPP imagery between 08 February and 10 February 2023, shown above using imagery taken from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":50754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,74,79,78,48,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gcom-w1","category-goes-16","category-microwave","category-noaa-20","category-viirs","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50750","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=50750"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50781,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50750\/revisions\/50781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}