{"id":6778,"date":"2010-09-12T16:38:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T16:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=6778"},"modified":"2010-09-14T18:52:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T18:52:02","slug":"hurricane-igor-intensifies-to-a-category-2-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/6778","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Igor intensifies to a Category 2 storm"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"SSMI\/S<\/a>

SSMI\/S 85 GHz microwave brightness temperature image<\/p><\/div>\n

An SSMI\/S 85 GHz microwave brightness temperature image from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/a><\/strong> site (above)<\/em><\/strong> displayed a well-defined eyewall structure associated with Hurricane Igor<\/a><\/strong> ar 11:32 UTC on 12 September 2010<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

GOES-13 1-km resolution 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (below)<\/em><\/strong> showed an improving appearance to the eye of Igor during the morning hours.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images<\/p><\/div>\n

========== UPDATE ==========<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images<\/p><\/div>\n

Igor rapidly intensified into a Category 4<\/a><\/strong> hurricane later in the day. GOES-13 4-km resolution 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images (above)<\/em><\/strong> displayed a well-defined eye, while a plot of the CIMSS Advanced Dvorak Technique<\/a><\/strong> (below)<\/em><\/strong> showed the trend of rapid intensification.<\/p>\n

\"Plot<\/a>

Plot of the CIMSS Advanced Dvorak Technique (ADT)<\/p><\/div>\n

1-km resolution GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (below)<\/em><\/strong> showed a fairly nice eye structure during the daytime hours.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An SSMI\/S 85 GHz microwave brightness temperature image from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) displayed a well-defined eyewall structure associated with Hurricane Igor ar 11:32 UTC on 12 September 2010. GOES-13 1-km resolution 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (below) showed an improving appearance to the eye of Igor during the morning hours. ========== UPDATE […]<\/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":[11,26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-13","category-poes","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778","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=6778"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6795,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions\/6795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}