{"id":60609,"date":"2024-08-15T19:39:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T19:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=60609"},"modified":"2024-08-15T19:39:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T19:39:51","slug":"the-ample-eye-of-ampil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/60609","title":{"rendered":"The ample eye of Ampil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/08\/noaa19_amsumhs_157v_avhrr_band5_bt_20240815_115220_08w_ampil_toggle.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60610\" style=\"width:1086px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Processed Direct Broadcast Imagery of Ampil from NOAA-19, 1152 UTC on 15 August 2024;  157 GHz and 10.8 um imagery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Typhoon Ampil was at the northern edge of the view of the Direct Broadcast antenna at the forecast office on Guam, and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/cspp\/\">CSPP<\/a> software processed the above images (courtesy Douglas Schumacher) showing the ample eye of the Typhoon.   Microwave imagery suggests an eyewall that is not quite complete, especially on the western side.  MIMIC imagery below (<a href=\"https:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mimtc\/2024_08W\/web\/mainpage.html\">from here<\/a>) suggests an incomplete eyewall as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/08\/AMPIL_15August2024gifsBy12hr_0000to1745.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60611\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">MIMIC-TC animation, 0000 &#8211; 1745 UTC on 15 August 2024 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Hourly imagery from 1140 (just after the NOAA-19 overpass shown above) through 1840 UTC show cold cloud tops not quite continuously encircling Ampil&#8217;s eye.  The GK2A imagery below was created using <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/csppgeo\/geo2grid.html\">geo2grid<\/a> imagery and level-1b GK2A data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kma.go.kr\/neng\/image\/sat-images.do\">KMA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/08\/GEO-KOMPSAT-2A_AMI_IR105_20240815_1140_to_1840step.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60612\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">GK2A Clean Window infrared (Band 13, 10.5 \u00b5m) imagery, hourly from 1140 to 1840 UTC on 15 August 2024 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/jma\/jma-eng\/jma-center\/rsmc-hp-pub-eg\/RSMC_HP.htm\">Tokyo Regional Specialized Meteorological Center (RSMC)<\/a> or the USA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoc.navy.mil\/jtwc\/jtwc.html\">Joint Typhoon Warning Center<\/a> for the latest on Ampil.  The storm is forecast to make a very close approach to Japan before turning eastward out to sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/08\/TokyoRSMC_ForecastPath_1800UTC_15August2024.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/08\/TokyoRSMC_ForecastPath_1800UTC_15August2024-1024x445.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/08\/TokyoRSMC_ForecastPath_1800UTC_15August2024-1024x445.png 1024w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/08\/TokyoRSMC_ForecastPath_1800UTC_15August2024-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/08\/TokyoRSMC_ForecastPath_1800UTC_15August2024-768x334.png 768w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/08\/TokyoRSMC_ForecastPath_1800UTC_15August2024-1536x668.png 1536w, https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/08\/TokyoRSMC_ForecastPath_1800UTC_15August2024.png 1691w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ampil&#8217;s forecast path as of 1800 UTC 15 August 2024 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typhoon Ampil was at the northern edge of the view of the Direct Broadcast antenna at the forecast office on Guam, and CSPP software processed the above images (courtesy Douglas Schumacher) showing the ample eye of the Typhoon. Microwave imagery suggests an eyewall that is not quite complete, especially on the western side. MIMIC imagery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":60615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,82,79,26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geo2grid","category-gk2a","category-microwave","category-poes","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60609","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=60609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60616,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60609\/revisions\/60616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}