{"id":6704,"date":"2010-09-04T23:59:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T23:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=6704"},"modified":"2010-09-07T23:22:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T23:22:20","slug":"development-of-a-warm-conveyor-belt-signature-near-the-back-edge-of-tropical-storm-earl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/6704","title":{"rendered":"Development of a “warm conveyor belt” signature near the back edge of Tropical Storm Earl?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor images (with surface fronts analyses)<\/p><\/div>\n

AWIPS images of the GOES-13 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel data (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed Hurricane \/ Tropical Storm Earl<\/strong><\/a> as it moved inland across the Canadian Maritime provinces on 04 September<\/a> – 05 September 2010<\/a><\/strong>. However, at the same time a large mid-latitude cyclone was intensifying over far western Quebec — and the water vapor imagery began to display what appeared to be a warm conveyor belt signature (below)<\/strong><\/em> that stretched northwestward across Quebec and over Hudson Bay. It was somewhat surprising to see such a warm conveyor belt signature develop so close to the proximity of the back edge of the cloud shield of Earl.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 water vapor image (with surface front analysis)<\/p><\/div>\n

The GFS40 model winds within the 315-325 K isentropic layer (below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that there was a strong 60-knot jet moving across the region where the warm conveyor belt signature formed on the water vapor imagery.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 water vapor image + GFS 315-325 K layer winds<\/p><\/div>\n

A pair of 1-km resolution MODIS 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor images (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed greater detail of the structure of the warm conveyor belt signature as it was forming.<\/p>\n

\"MODIS<\/a>

MODIS 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor images<\/p><\/div>\n

A sequence of four 1-km resolution POES AVHRR 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the banding structure that was forming within the conveyor belt feature.<\/p>\n

\"AVHRR<\/a>

AVHRR 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AWIPS images of the GOES-13 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel data (above) showed Hurricane \/ Tropical Storm Earl as it moved inland across the Canadian Maritime provinces on 04 September – 05 September 2010. However, at the same time a large mid-latitude cyclone was intensifying over far western Quebec — and the water vapor imagery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,10,11,12,26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avhrr","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-13","category-modis","category-poes","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704","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=6704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6710,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704\/revisions\/6710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}