{"id":7857,"date":"2011-04-22T23:59:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T23:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=7857"},"modified":"2011-04-23T02:26:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T02:26:36","slug":"earth-day-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/7857","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Global<\/a>

Global montage of geostationary satellite images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

The “spinning globe” satellite image montage (above; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> showed the cloud formations around the planet on Earth Day (22 April 2011)<\/strong>. This product is created by combining data from 5 of the currently operational geostationary orbiting meteorological satellites (GOES-East at 75\u00c2\u00ba West longitude, GOES-West at 135\u00c2\u00ba West longitude, Meteosat at 0\u00c2\u00ba longitude, Meteosat at 63\u00c2\u00ba East longitude, and MTSAT at 145\u00c2\u00ba East longitude), polar orbiting satellites, and a topographic background map of the Earth. The spinning globe product is created every 3 hours, and is available for either the latest time period<\/a><\/strong> or an animation covering the last 3 weeks<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"MODIS<\/a>

MODIS IR image atmospheric motion vectors over the Arctic region<\/p><\/div>\n

Polar-orbiting satellites such as the NASA Terra and Aqua platforms also provide us with valuable information over the polar regions of the Earth (which are not sampled well by geostationary satellites, due to the very large viewing angles). Cloud-tracked winds (or “atmospheric motion vectors”) can be calculated by comparing the location of features on successive images — examples of Terra and Aqua MODIS winds from 22 April 2011 over the Arctic region (above)<\/em><\/strong> and the Antarctic region (below)<\/em><\/strong> provide valuable input into numerical weather prediction models.<\/p>\n

\"MODIS<\/a>

MODIS IR image atmospheric motion vectors over the Antarctic region<\/p><\/div>\n

These are just a few examples of the diverse array of real-time satellite data and products<\/a><\/strong> that are available from the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin – Madison every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “spinning globe” satellite image montage (above; click image to play animation) showed the cloud formations around the planet on Earth Day (22 April 2011). This product is created by combining data from 5 of the currently operational geostationary orbiting meteorological satellites (GOES-East at 75\u00c2\u00ba West longitude, GOES-West at 135\u00c2\u00ba West longitude, Meteosat at 0\u00c2\u00ba […]<\/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":[36,37,10,18,11,23,12,20,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctic","category-arctic","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-11","category-goes-13","category-meteosat","category-modis","category-mtsat","category-poes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857","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=7857"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7871,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions\/7871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}