{"id":6835,"date":"2010-09-20T23:59:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T23:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=6835"},"modified":"2010-09-28T22:39:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T22:39:48","slug":"goes-15-super-rapid-scan-operations-srso-imagery-southern-california-stratus-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/6835","title":{"rendered":"GOES-15 Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) imagery: southern California stratus clouds"},"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\/100920_g15_srso.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOES-15 SRSO 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/100920_g15_vis_socal_click_to_play.jpg\" alt=\"GOES-15 SRSO 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images\" width=\"480\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 SRSO 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As part of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/projects\/goes-p\/\">GOES-15 Post Launch Science Test<\/a><\/strong>, the satellite was placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) mode on <a title=\"20 September 2010 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20100920.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>20 September 2010<\/strong><\/a>, providing images as frequently as every 1 minute during certain intervals of the day. McIDAS images of GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> showed the evolution of stratus clouds along and just offshore of the southern California coast.<\/p>\n<p>Satellite imagery at such a temporal scale gives a preview of what will be available in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/\">GOES-R<\/a><\/strong> era, when 30-second interval SRSO image sectors will be available on a routine basis.<\/p>\n<p>The location of the marine status clouds had an important impact on the daily high temperature at any given site. For example, on the GOES-15 visible image <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> you can see why Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) had a daily high\u00c2\u00a0 temperature of only 69\u00c2\u00ba F <em>(21 \u00c2\u00ba C),<\/em> while just a few miles further inland, downtotown Los Angels had a high temperature that day of 80\u00c2\u00ba F <em>(27\u00c2\u00ba C)<\/em>.<\/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\/100920_G15_VIS_LAX_CQT.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOES-15 visible image, with locations of Airport (A) and Downtown (D)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/100920_G15_VIS_LAX_CQT.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-15 visible image, with locations of Airport (A) and Downtown (D)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 visible image, with locations of Airport (A) and Downtown (D)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the GOES-15 Post Launch Science Test, the satellite was placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) mode on 20 September 2010, providing images as frequently as every 1 minute during certain intervals of the day. McIDAS images of GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above) showed the evolution of stratus clouds along [&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":[10,43,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-15","category-goes-r"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835","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=6835"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6903,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions\/6903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}