{"id":8873,"date":"2011-09-14T23:59:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T23:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=8873"},"modified":"2011-09-15T19:08:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T19:08:50","slug":"goes-15-improved-spatial-resolution-water-vapor-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/8873","title":{"rendered":"GOES-15: improved spatial resolution water vapor channel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"GOES-11<\/a>

GOES-11 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m (left) and GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m (right) water vapor channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

McIDAS images of 8-km resolution GOES-11 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m and 4-km resolution GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel data (above)<\/strong><\/em> demonstrated the advantage of improved spatial resolution for the detection of features and gradients in the water vapor imagery associated with a weak upper level low moving eastward across the southwestern US on 14 September 2010<\/strong><\/a>. GOES-15 is scheduled to replace GOES-11 as the operational GOES-West satellite in December 2011.<\/p>\n

AWIPS images of the GOES-11 sounder Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) product (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that the atmosphere was destabilizing in advance of the upper low, with CAPE values in the 1000-2000 J\/kg range.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-11<\/a>

GOES-11 sounder Convective Available Potential Entegy (CAPE)<\/p><\/div>\n

With the increasing instability and large scale lift ahead of the upper low, areas of thunderstorms developed over parts of Nevada, Arizona, and Utah, as seen on a MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image with an overlay of cloud-to-ground lightning strikes (below)<\/strong><\/em>. About an hour after the time of the MODIS image, one of these storms produced 1.0-inch diameter hail that covered the ground near Munds in northern Arizona (SPC storm reports<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"MODIS<\/a>

MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image + cloud-to-ground lightning strikes<\/p><\/div>\n

CIMSS participation in GOES-R Proving Ground<\/strong><\/a> activities includes making a variety of MODIS<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong> and additional GOES Sounder<\/strong><\/a> images and products available for National Weather Service offices to add to their local AWIPS workstations. Currently there are 49 NWS offices<\/a><\/strong> receiving MODIS imagery and products from CIMSS.<\/p>\n

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  McIDAS images of 8-km resolution GOES-11 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m and 4-km resolution GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel data (above) demonstrated the advantage of improved spatial resolution for the detection of features and gradients in the water vapor imagery associated with a weak upper level low moving eastward across the southwestern US on 14 September […]<\/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":[15,18,43,34,30,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-sounder","category-goes-11","category-goes-15","category-goes-r","category-lightning","category-modis","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873","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=8873"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8876,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873\/revisions\/8876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}