{"id":55069,"date":"2023-10-11T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=55069"},"modified":"2023-10-11T23:20:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T23:20:59","slug":"super-typhoon-bolaven-reaches-category-5-intensity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/55069","title":{"rendered":"Super Typhoon Bolaven reaches Category 5 intensity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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JMA Himawari-9 Red Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images, from 2012 UTC on 10 October to 0752 UTC on 11 October [click to play animated GIF |\u00a0MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Target Sector<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(2.5-minute interval)\u00a0JMA<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Himawari-9\u00a0AHI<\/strong><\/a> Red Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> and Clean Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) mages (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed Super Typhoon Bolaven as it reached Category 5 intensity west of the Northern Mariana Islands<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0at 0000 UTC (SATCON<\/strong><\/a>) on 11 October 2023. Bolaven was an annular tropical cyclone, exhibiting a symmetric eye surrounded by a broad ring of dense and cold deep convection.<\/p>\n

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JMA Himawari-9 Clean Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images, from 2012 UTC on 10 October to 0752 UTC on 11 October [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A closer view of Himawari-9 Visible and Infrared mages (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed mesovortices within the eye, as well as the distinct stadium effect of the eye (with its edges sloping outward with height).<\/p>\n

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JMA Himawari-9 Red Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, left) and Clean Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m, right) images, from 2102 UTC on 10 October to 0702 UTC on 11 October [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Microwave (85 GHz) images from DMSP-16 (at 0818 UTC) and AMSR2 (at 1627 UTC) from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site (below)<\/strong><\/em> displayed a compact and fully closed eyewall.<\/p>\n

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DMSP-16 SSMIS Microwave (85 GHz) image at 0818 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>
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AMSR2 Microwave (85 GHz) image at 1627 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A noctrnal Suomi-NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) image valid at 1647 UTC<\/strong><\/a> (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed a pronounced packet of mesospheric airglow waves (reference<\/strong><\/a>) propagating southward away from the eye of Bolaven.<\/p>\n

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Suomi-NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) image, valid at 1647 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Target Sector\u00a0(2.5-minute interval)\u00a0JMA\u00a0Himawari-9\u00a0AHI Red Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images (above) and Clean Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) mages (below) showed Super Typhoon Bolaven as it reached Category 5 intensity west of the Northern Mariana Islands\u00a0at 0000 UTC (SATCON) on 11 October 2023. Bolaven was an annular tropical cyclone, exhibiting a symmetric eye surrounded by a broad ring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":55086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,73,79,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dmsp","category-himawari-9","category-microwave","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55069","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=55069"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55092,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55069\/revisions\/55092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}