{"id":592,"date":"2008-01-04T21:05:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T21:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/592"},"modified":"2008-01-07T02:37:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T02:37:19","slug":"powerful-pacific-storm-begins-to-impact-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/592","title":{"rendered":"Powerful Pacific storm begins to impact the US West Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AWIPS<\/a><\/p>\n

AWIPS images of global water vapor composites (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed a large and powerful Pacific storm that was beginning to impact the US West Coast on 04 January 2008<\/strong><\/a>. This storm was tapping a very long plume of high total precipitable water (TPW) originating from the western Pacific Ocean, as seen in an animation of MIMIC TPW<\/strong><\/a> (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"MIMIC<\/a><\/p>\n

\"MIMIC<\/p>\n

The dynamics associated with this storm were also impressive, with a very strong polar jet stream that stretched across the entire Pacific Ocean. AWIPS images of the GFS model Maximum Wind field (below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated jet stream wind speeds as high as 210 knots over the North Pacific (south of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands) and greater than 170 knots over Japan at 06:00 UTC on 04 January.<\/p>\n

\"GFS<\/a><\/p>\n

MADIS<\/strong><\/a> satellite-derived atmospheric motion vectors (AMVs) produced using hourly water vapor imagery (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed a large number of high-altitude wind targets having speeds of greater than 200 knots during the period between 03 January at 12:00 UTC and 04 January at 18:00 UTC. The highest satellite-derived water vapor wind speed seen was 252 knots at a pressure of 258 mb<\/strong><\/a>; satellite winds of greater that 100 knots had moved inland over California after 15:00 UTC on 04 January.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-11<\/a><\/p>\n

A beautiful view of the storm was captured on AWIPS images of the MODIS visible, IR window, and water vapor channels (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"AWIPS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AWIPS images of global water vapor composites (above) showed a large and powerful Pacific storm that was beginning to impact the US West Coast on 04 January 2008. This storm was tapping a very long plume of high total precipitable water (TPW) originating from the western Pacific Ocean, as seen in an animation of MIMIC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12,26,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-11","category-modis","category-poes","category-satellite-winds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","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=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}