{"id":664,"date":"2008-05-20T23:45:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T23:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/664"},"modified":"2008-07-02T18:59:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T18:59:16","slug":"occluding-cyclone-over-the-north-atlantic-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/664","title":{"rendered":"Occluding cyclone over the North Atlantic Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/05\/080519-20_nh_wv_anim.gif\" title=\"Northern hemisphere water vapor composite imagery (Animated GIF)\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/05\/080519-20_nh_wv_anim.gif\" title=\"Northern hemisphere water vapor composite imagery (Animated GIF)\" alt=\"Northern hemisphere water vapor composite imagery (Animated GIF)\" align=\"middle\" height=\"452\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AWIPS images of the water vapor\u00c2\u00a0 satellite composite <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the evolution of a wide variety of synoptic-scale features across the Northern Hemisphere at 3-hour intervals during the <strong>19 May &#8211; 20 May 2008<\/strong> period. Of particular interest was the water vapor signatures associated with an occluding cyclone over the North Atlantic Ocean <em>(located south of Iceland and west of the British Isles)<\/em>. A closer view using Meteosat-9 images of the 6.2 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel at 15-minute intervals <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed a great deal of interesting mesoscale structure as bands of moist and dry air wrapped into the occluding cyclone as it began to fill .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/05\/080519-20_met9_wv_anim.gif\" title=\"Meteosat-9 water vapor images (Animated GIF)\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/05\/080519-20_met9_wv_anim.gif\" title=\"Meteosat-9 water vapor images (Animated GIF)\" alt=\"Meteosat-9 water vapor images (Animated GIF)\" align=\"middle\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AWIPS images of the water vapor\u00c2\u00a0 satellite composite (above) showed the evolution of a wide variety of synoptic-scale features across the Northern Hemisphere at 3-hour intervals during the 19 May &#8211; 20 May 2008 period. Of particular interest was the water vapor signatures associated with an occluding cyclone over the North Atlantic Ocean (located south [&hellip;]<\/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":[10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-meteosat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","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=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}