{"id":52585,"date":"2023-05-25T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=52585"},"modified":"2023-05-25T20:58:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T20:58:31","slug":"noaa-20-views-of-super-typhoon-mawar-from-the-guam-direct-broadcast-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/52585","title":{"rendered":"NOAA-20 (and Suomi-NPP) views of Super Typhoon Mawar from the Guam Direct Broadcast antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/j01_viirs_dnb_20230525_155821_lcc_fitLT_toggle.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/j01_viirs_dnb_20230525_155821_lcc_fitLT_toggle.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52591\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">NOAA-20 Day Night Band visible (0.70 \u00b5m) and I05 infrared (11.45 \u00b5m) imagery at 1558 UTC on 25 May 2023 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Direct Broadcast data from the antenna on Guam (processed with CSPP data) at 1558 UTC on 25 May show the structure of a very strong typhoon.  Mawar at 1800 UTC was a Super Typhoon with sustained winds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoc.navy.mil\/jtwc\/products\/wp0223web.txt\">155 knots<\/a>. (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/52574\">Blog Post<\/a>).  The toggle above shows <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/j01_viirs_i05_20230525_155821_lcc_fitLT.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">I<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/j01_viirs_i05_20230525_155821_lcc_fitLT.jpg\">05 (11.45 \u00b5m)<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/j01_viirs_i05_20230525_155821_lcc_fitLT.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/j01_viirs_adaptive_dnb_20230525_155821_lcc_fitLT.jpg\">Day Night Band visible (0.70 \u00b5m)<\/a> imagery.  There are (again) indications of mesospheric gravity waves in the Day Night Band imagery (i.e., concentric light\/dark bands surrounding the storm, especially west and north of the storm).  The 11.45 infrared imagery shows a very warm eye.  In both images, the symmetric nature of the storm is apparent, and strong convection in the outer bands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 1650 UTC, Suomi NPP provided <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/npp_viirs_i05_20230525_165059_lcc_fitTL.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I05<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/npp_viirs_adaptive_dnb_20230525_165059_lcc_fitLT.jpg\">Day Night Band<\/a> data, shown below.  The Mesospheric Gravity Waves are perhaps more noteable in the Suomi NPP Day Night imagery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/npp_viirs_dnb_i05_20230525_165059toggle.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52600\" width=\"897\" height=\"1024\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Suomi-NPP Day Night Band visible (0.70 \u00b5m) and I05 infrared (11.45 \u00b5m) imagery at 1650 UTC on 25 May 2023 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Douglas Schumacher, SSEC\/CIMSS, for the imagery!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Direct Broadcast data from the antenna on Guam (processed with CSPP data) at 1558 UTC on 25 May show the structure of a very strong typhoon. Mawar at 1800 UTC was a Super Typhoon with sustained winds of 155 knots. (Blog Post). The toggle above shows I05 (11.45 \u00b5m) and Day Night Band visible (0.70 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":52595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noaa-20","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52585","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=52585"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52605,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52585\/revisions\/52605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}