{"id":6346,"date":"2010-08-12T15:43:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T15:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=6346"},"modified":"2010-08-16T15:45:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T15:45:48","slug":"goes-15-science-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/6346","title":{"rendered":"GOES-15 Science Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/11aug10_vis_mn_animation_g15.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/11aug10_vis_mn_animation_g15.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"11aug10_vis_mn_animation_g15\" width=\"540\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/climo\/reports\/100811_rpts.html\">A weak, isolated tornado<\/a> developed in southwestern Minnesota during the afternoon of 11 August 2010.  GOES-15 imagery, above, shows the development of modest cumulus convection that spawned the tornado.  The 5-minute time-step in the imagery is similar to that that will be available routinely from the ABI on GOES-R; the loop was taken as part of the GOES-15 science test as described <a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/projects\/goes-p\/\">here<\/a>.  (GOES-15 data are available at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/data\/geo\/index.php?satellite=goes15&#038;file=jpg\">SSEC Geostationary Satellite Image Browser<\/a>)  Although the tornadic event was a meteorological surprise (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/outlook\/archive\/2010\/day1otlk_20100811_2000.html\">the convective outlook<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\">Storm Prediction Center<\/a>, for example, did not foresee convection in the area), several satellite-based products diagnosed the instability that was present in the atmosphere.  For example, the CIMSS NearCasting Tool (which tool uses the 3 water vapor channels on the GOES-13 Sounder to predict the 0-6 hours evolution of the theta-e destribution in the troposphere) showed a region of enhanced convective instability over southern Minnesota (see image below).  In addition, GOES-13 Sounder estimates of <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/dpicom4li.10223.1900.gif\">Lifted Index<\/a> (see the bottom two panels of the linked-to image) show southern Minnesota at the northern edge of unstable air.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/nearcast-ted-v20100811z19-0hr.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/08\/nearcast-ted-v20100811z19-0hr.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"nearcast-ted-v20100811z19-0hr\" width=\"540\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6353\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weak, isolated tornado developed in southwestern Minnesota during the afternoon of 11 August 2010. GOES-15 imagery, above, shows the development of modest cumulus convection that spawned the tornado. The 5-minute time-step in the imagery is similar to that that will be available routinely from the ABI on GOES-R; the loop was taken as part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-15","category-goes-r","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346","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=6346"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6365,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346\/revisions\/6365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}