{"id":6748,"date":"2010-09-09T23:59:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T23:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=6748"},"modified":"2010-09-10T05:26:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T05:26:51","slug":"mountain-waves-over-the-southwestern-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/6748","title":{"rendered":"Mountain waves over the Southwestern US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/100909_modis_goes_wv_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MODIS 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor image + GOES-13 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/100909_modis_goes_wv_anim.gif\" title=\"MODIS 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor image + GOES-13 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor image\" width=\"480\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor image + GOES-13 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel and the 4-km resolution GOES-13 water vapor channel  data on <strong>09 September 2010<\/strong> <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong>  is another great example that demonstrates how an improvement in spatial resolution leads to a dramatic improvement in the ability to detect the total areal coverage of mountain wave signatures on water vapor imagery.<\/p>\n<p>Overlays of RUC model wind speeds <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> indicated that a 105-knot upper level jet was located over the region &#8212; these strong winds were interacting with the complex terrain of the Rocky Mountains to produce the widespread mountain waves.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/100909_modis_wv_ruc_winds_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MODIS water vapor image + RUC model wind speeds \" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/100909_modis_wv_ruc_winds_anim.gif\" title=\"MODIS water vapor image + RUC model wind speeds \" width=\"480\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS water vapor image + RUC model wind speeds <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel and the 4-km resolution GOES-13 water vapor channel data on 09 September 2010 (above) is another great example that demonstrates how an improvement in spatial resolution leads to a dramatic improvement in the ability to detect the total areal coverage of mountain wave [&hellip;]<\/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":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-13","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748","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=6748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6750,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748\/revisions\/6750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}