{"id":6971,"date":"2010-10-11T23:59:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T23:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=6971"},"modified":"2011-01-24T19:30:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T19:30:40","slug":"tropical-storm-paula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/6971","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Paula"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"GOES-13<\/a>

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

Tropical Storm Paula<\/a><\/strong> formed just off the coast of Honduras on 11 October 2010<\/strong><\/a>. GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/a><\/strong> site (above)<\/em><\/strong> showed the well-defined convective clusters associated with Paula.<\/p>\n

The canopy of cold cloud tops was evident on GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (below)<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

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

A comparison of a GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image with the corresponding Aqua AMSR-E 89 GHz microwave image (below)<\/em><\/strong> revealed a large area of heavy precipitation over a good portion of eastern Honduras.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 IR image + Aqua AMSR-E 89 GHz microwave image<\/p><\/div>\n

========== 12 OCTOBER UPDATE ==========
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\"GOES-15<\/a>

GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible images<\/p><\/div>\n

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Paula rapidly intensified (CIMSS ADT plot<\/strong><\/a>) into a Category 2 hurricane on 12 October 2010<\/strong>. Paula briefly exhibited an eye during the morning hours on 1-km resolution GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel imagery (above)<\/strong><\/em> and on 4-km resolution GOES-15 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel imagery (below)<\/strong><\/em>. At 15:45 UTC,\u00c2\u00a0 ASCAT scatterometer winds<\/strong><\/a> were measured at 46 knots\u00c2\u00a0 surrounding the northern periphery of the center of Paula. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"GOES-15<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>

GOES-15 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images<\/p><\/div>\n

AWIPS images of the POES AVHRR<\/a><\/strong> Cloud Top Temperature (CTT), Cloud Top Height (CTH), and Cloud Type products at 18:46 UTC\u00c2\u00a0 (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that the coldest CTT value was -86\u00c2\u00ba C, with a large area of maximum CTH values of 16 km (much of that overshooting the tropopause, as indicated by the violet color enhancement on the Cloud Type product).<\/p>\n

\"POES<\/a>

POES AVHRR Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Top Height, and Cloud Type products<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tropical Storm Paula formed just off the coast of Honduras on 11 October 2010. GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed the well-defined convective clusters associated with Paula. The canopy of cold cloud tops was evident on GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (below). A comparison of a […]<\/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":[22,11,43,26,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avhrr","category-goes-13","category-goes-15","category-poes","category-satellite-winds","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971","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=6971"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7498,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971\/revisions\/7498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}