{"id":8143,"date":"2011-05-17T23:59:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T23:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=8143"},"modified":"2011-05-18T19:05:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T19:05:04","slug":"flooding-continues-along-the-mississippi-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/8143","title":{"rendered":"Flooding continues along the Mississippi River"},"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\/110517_modis_vis_snow_ice_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel image + MODIS 2.1 \u00c2\u00b5m near-IR &quot;snow\/ice channel&quot; image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/05\/110517_modis_vis_snow_ice_anim.gif\" title=\"MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel image + MODIS 2.1 \u00c2\u00b5m near-IR &quot;snow\/ice channel&quot; image\" width=\"480\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel image + MODIS 2.1 \u00c2\u00b5m near-IR &quot;snow\/ice channel&quot; image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>AWIPS images of MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data and MODIS 2.1 \u00c2\u00b5m near-IR &#8220;snow\/ice channel&#8221; data <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> demonstrated the utility of the snow\/ice channel imagery for highlighting the areal extent of flooding along parts of the lower Mississippi River on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20110517.html\">17 May 2011<\/a><\/strong>. Water is a strong absorber at the 2.1 \u00c2\u00b5m wavelength, so it appears very <strong>dark<\/strong> on the MODIS snow\/ice channel image. <\/p>\n<p>CIMSS participation in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes_r\/proving-ground.html\">GOES-R Proving Ground<\/a><\/strong> activities includes making <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/~jordang\/awips-modis\/index.html\">MODIS imagery<\/a><\/strong> available for National Weather Service forecasters to add to their AWIPS workstations. The VISIT training lesson \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/training_sessions\/modis_products_in_awips\/\">MODIS Products in AWIPS<\/a><\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is also available to help users understand the products and their applications to weather analysis and forecasting.<\/p>\n<p>A closer view using 250-meter resolution MODIS true color (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov\/faq\/#faq04\">using channels 1\/4\/3<\/a><\/strong>) and false color (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov\/faq\/#faq04\">using channels 7\/2\/1<\/a><\/strong>)  MODIS Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ge.ssec.wisc.edu\/modis-today\/index.php?satellite=a1&#038;product=true_color&#038;date=2011_05_17_137&#038;overlay_sector=false&#038;overlay_state=true&#038;overlay_coastline=true\">SSEC MODIS Today<\/a><\/strong> site <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> revealed the darker brown &#8220;muddy&#8221; appearance of much of the flooded areas adjacent to the Mississippi River, due to high sediment loading of the water. Water exhibited a very dark blue appearance on the MODIS false color image.<\/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\/110517_modis_truecolor_falsecolor_ms_river_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"250-m resolution MODIS true color and false color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/05\/110517_modis_truecolor_falsecolor_ms_river_anim.gif\" title=\"250-m resolution MODIS true color and false color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">250-m resolution MODIS true color and false color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AWIPS images of MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data and MODIS 2.1 \u00c2\u00b5m near-IR &#8220;snow\/ice channel&#8221; data (above) demonstrated the utility of the snow\/ice channel imagery for highlighting the areal extent of flooding along parts of the lower Mississippi River on 17 May 2011. Water is a strong absorber at the 2.1 \u00c2\u00b5m wavelength, so [&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":[34,16,35,12,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-r","category-heavy-rain-flooding","category-hydrology","category-modis","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143","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=8143"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8150,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143\/revisions\/8150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}