{"id":8036,"date":"2011-05-09T23:59:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T23:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=8036"},"modified":"2011-05-10T04:38:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T04:38:30","slug":"occluded-cyclone-off-the-new-england-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/8036","title":{"rendered":"Occluded cyclone off the New England coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/05\/Sfc_Fronts_20110509_1500.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MODIS 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel image + surface pressure and surface fronts\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/05\/Sfc_Fronts_20110509_1500.png\" alt=\"MODIS 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel image + surface pressure and surface fronts\" width=\"480\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel image + surface pressure and surface fronts<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An AWIPS image of the MODIS 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m &#8220;water vapor channel&#8221; with an overlay of surface pressure and surface fronts <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> showed a large occluded cyclone off the New England coast on <strong>09 May 2011<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>McIDAS images of GOES-13 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel data <strong><em>(below; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> displayed the evolution of the classic signature that indicates a cyclone has reached the occluded stage: the formation of a well-defined &#8220;dry swirl&#8221; that wraps around the center of the circulation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/05\/110509_g13_wv_occluded_low_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOES-13 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/05\/110509_G13_WV_OCCLUDED_LOW_55.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-13 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A comparison of AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS water vapor channel image with the corresponding 4-km resolution GOES-13 water vapor channel image <strong>(below)<\/strong> demonstrates the advantage of improved spatial resolution for analyzing the complex water vapor gradients as the system was  becoming occluded.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/05\/110509_modis_goes_wv_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MODIS 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor image + GOES-13 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/05\/110509_modis_goes_wv_anim.gif\" title=\"MODIS 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor image + GOES-13 6.7 \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 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor image<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An AWIPS image of the MODIS 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m &#8220;water vapor channel&#8221; with an overlay of surface pressure and surface fronts (above) showed a large occluded cyclone off the New England coast on 09 May 2011. McIDAS images of GOES-13 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel data (below; click image to play animation) displayed the evolution of [&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":[10,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-13","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036","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=8036"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8045,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions\/8045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}