{"id":8898,"date":"2011-09-23T23:59:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T23:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=8898"},"modified":"2011-09-24T04:19:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T04:19:34","slug":"hurricane-hilary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/8898","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Hilary"},"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\/09\/110923_g15_vis_hillary_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/110923_G15_VIS_HILLARY_20.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images\u00c2\u00a0 <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the rather small but very distinct eye of Category 4 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2011\/HILARY.shtml?\">Hurricane Hilary<\/a><\/strong> in the Eastern North Pacific Ocean on 23 September 2011. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oso.noaa.gov\/goesstatus\/spacecraftStatusSummary.asp?spacecraft=15\">GOES-15<\/a><\/strong> <em>(the newest in the series of GOES N\/O\/P satellites, launched and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/projects\/goes-p\/\">tested in 2010<\/a><\/strong>)<\/em> is scheduled to  replace <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oso.noaa.gov\/goesstatus\/spacecraftStatusSummary.asp?spacecraft=11\">GOES-11<\/a><\/strong> as the operational GOES-West satellite in December 2011.<\/p>\n<p>During this same time period on 23 September, the GOES-11 satellite was placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) mode, providing bursts of data at 1-minute intervals. Magnified versions of GOES-11 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images <strong><em>(below; click image to play animation; also available as a <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/110923_g11_vis_srso_hilary.mov\">QuickTime movie<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong> revealed that at times there were multiple mesovortices within the eye of Hurricane Hilary. Larger-scale (zoomed-out) views of GOES-11 SRSO <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/products\/srso\/index.php?data_folder=hurricane_hilary\/20110923120000\">Water Vapor, Visible, and IR channel images<\/a><\/strong> are available from CIRA\/RAMMB.<\/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\/09\/110923_g11_vis_srso_hilary_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"    \" title=\"GOES-11 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel SRSO images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/110923_G11_VIS_SRSO_065.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-11 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel SRSO images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-11 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel SRSO images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images\u00c2\u00a0 (above; click image to play animation) showed the rather small but very distinct eye of Category 4 Hurricane Hilary in the Eastern North Pacific Ocean on 23 September 2011. GOES-15 (the newest in the series of GOES N\/O\/P satellites, launched and tested in 2010) is scheduled to replace GOES-11 [&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":[18,43,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-11","category-goes-15","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898","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=8898"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8901,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898\/revisions\/8901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}