{"id":58540,"date":"2024-04-17T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=58540"},"modified":"2024-04-19T17:35:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T17:35:20","slug":"1-minute-goes-18-imagery-in-support-of-american-samoas-flag-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/58540","title":{"rendered":"1-minute GOES-18 imagery in support of American Samoa&#8217;s Flag Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1725px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/04\/240416_240417_goes18_infrared_totalPrecipitableWater_American_Samoa_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/04\/as_ir-20240417_222954.png\" width=\"1715\" height=\"830\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1-minute GOES-18 \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images with an overlay of the Total Precipitable Water derived product (in non-cloudy areas), from 0009-2349 UTC on 17 April [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>1-minute\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov\/status\/satellite\/\"><strong>Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0GOES-18\u00a0<em>(GOES-West)<\/em> \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band13.pdf\"><strong>10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images with an overlay of the <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/QuickGuide_TPW_20180306-1.pdf\"><strong>Total Precipitable Water<\/strong><\/a> derived product (in non-cloudy areas) <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed that an axis of moisture was initially in place across all the Samoan Islands &#8212; peak TPW values were in excess of 2.0 in (brighter shades of magenta). The axis of moisture began to diminish somewhat over American Samoa after 0600 UTC &#8212; but as another lobe of higher moisture approached from the east around 1300 UTC, scattered showers began developing in the vicinity of the Manu&#8217;a Islands and Tutuila.<\/p>\n<p>Since there is no radar coverage across the islands, 1-minute GOES-18 imagery was requested to support the 124th annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officeholidays.com\/holidays\/american-samoa\/american-samoa-flag-day\"><strong>Flag Day<\/strong><\/a> celebration in American Samoa (which included numerous VIP visitors from the US Department of Defense and Legislature, Hawai&#8217;i State Department and local government).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector\u00a0GOES-18\u00a0(GOES-West) \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images with an overlay of the Total Precipitable Water derived product (in non-cloudy areas) (above) showed that an axis of moisture was initially in place across all the Samoan Islands &#8212; peak TPW values were in excess of 2.0 in (brighter shades of magenta). The axis of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":58544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-18"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58540","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=58540"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58597,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58540\/revisions\/58597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}