{"id":60957,"date":"2024-10-01T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=60957"},"modified":"2024-10-02T14:46:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:46:36","slug":"fci-rgb-views-of-kirk-in-the-eastern-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/60957","title":{"rendered":"FCI RGB views of Kirk in the eastern Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"938\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 938;\" width=\"1920\" controls loop src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/10\/2024-10-01_10_00-2024-10-01_17_00_hurricane.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cloud Phase RGB imagery from FCI data, 1000 &#8211; 1700 UTC on 1 October 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Data from the Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) on board MTG-I1 (Meteosat Third Generation), operating in parallel with Meteosat-10, with a sub-satellite point at 0<sup>o<\/sup>N, 0<sup>o<\/sup>E, shows the different cloud types associated with Kirk (which was deemed a hurricane <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2024\/al12\/al122024.discus.009.shtml?\">at 2100 UTC on 1 October<\/a>) in the tropical Atlantic.  The Cloud Phase RGB (<a href=\"https:\/\/resources.eumetrain.org\/rgb_quick_guides\/quick_guides\/CloudPhaseRGB.pdf\">details<\/a>), among other things, helps distinguish between ice\/water clouds, and clouds with large\/small particles.  In the example above, blue clouds have large particle sizes (likely ice in this case) and cyan clouds have smaller ice particle sizes.  The pink-hued clouds over the southeastern quadrant of the scene above are likely clouds with large water droplets.  A zoomed-in view of that quadrant is shown below.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"938\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 938;\" width=\"1920\" controls loop src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/10\/2024-10-01_10_00-2024-10-01_17_00_hurricane_zoom.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cloud Phase RGB imagery from FCI data, 1000 &#8211; 1700 UTC on 1 October 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many thanks to Jochen Kerkman, EUMETSAT, for forwarding along these animations.  So beautiful!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data from the Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) on board MTG-I1 (Meteosat Third Generation), operating in parallel with Meteosat-10, with a sub-satellite point at 0oN, 0oE, shows the different cloud types associated with Kirk (which was deemed a hurricane at 2100 UTC on 1 October) in the tropical Atlantic. The Cloud Phase RGB (details), among other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":60964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,45,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meteosat-12","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60957","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=60957"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60963,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60957\/revisions\/60963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}