{"id":8486,"date":"2011-07-17T23:59:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T23:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=8486"},"modified":"2011-07-18T17:57:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T17:57:03","slug":"tropical-storm-bret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/8486","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Bret"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/07\/110717_g13_vis_atl_td2_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOES-13 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/07\/110717_G13_VIS_INVEST_40.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-13 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data <strong><em>(above; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> showed the cyclonic circulation of clouds and the convective bursts associated with  the development of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2011\/BRET.shtml?\">Tropical Storm Bret<\/a><\/strong> in the western Atlantic Ocean north of the Bahamas on <a title=\"17 July 2011 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20110717.html\"><strong>17 July 2011<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A morning AWIPS image of MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel data with an overlay of  MetOp Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) surface winds <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> indicated a broad cyclonic flow with maximum velocities around 22 knots at 14:23 UTC.<\/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\/07\/ASCAT_MODIS_IR_20110717_1533.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image + ASCAT surface scatterometer winds\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/07\/ASCAT_MODIS_IR_20110717_1533.png\" alt=\"MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image + ASCAT surface scatterometer winds\" width=\"480\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image + ASCAT surface scatterometer winds<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Later in the day, a DMSP-18 SSMIS 85 GHz microwave image from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/#\">CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/a><\/strong> site <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> showed that the deep convection was limited to the eastern semicircle of the tropical cyclone at that time, due to the presence of some westerly wind shear.<\/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\/07\/110718_0118z_bret_mw_shear_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DMSP-18 SSMIS 85 GHz microwave image + deep layer wind shear\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/07\/110718_0118z_bret_mw_shear_anim.gif\" alt=\"DMSP-18 SSMIS 85 GHz microwave image + deep layer wind shear\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">DMSP-18 SSMIS 85 GHz microwave image + deep layer wind shear<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the cyclonic circulation of clouds and the convective bursts associated with the development of Tropical Storm Bret in the western Atlantic Ocean north of the Bahamas on 17 July 2011. A morning AWIPS image of MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR [&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":[11,12,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-13","category-modis","category-satellite-winds","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486","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=8486"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8497,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions\/8497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}