{"id":9020,"date":"2011-10-13T22:08:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T22:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=9020"},"modified":"2011-10-13T22:16:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T22:16:51","slug":"tropical-moisture-being-drawn-into-a-rex-block-cut-off-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/9020","title":{"rendered":"Tropical moisture being drawn into a “Rex block” cut-off low"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"GOES-15<\/a>

GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images (click image to play 3-day animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

McIDAS images of 4-km resolution GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel data (above; click image to play 3-day animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed a plume of tropical moisture being drawn into the circulation of a large cut-off low that was part of a “Rex block”<\/strong><\/a> that had formed over the far East Pacific Ocean during the 11 October – 13 October 2011<\/strong> period.<\/p>\n

An AWIPS image of 1-km resolution MODIS 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel data with an overlay of 1-hour MADIS atmospheric motion vectors or “satellite winds” (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed better detail of the moisture plume structure, and indicated that this moisture was being drawn into the circulation of the cut-off low at speeds as great as 50-60 knots.<\/p>\n

\"MODIS<\/a>

MODIS 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor image + MADIS atmospheric motion vector winds<\/p><\/div>\n

AWIPS images of the MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product (below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> revealed that the plume of tropical moisture was likely composed of contributions from the remnants of Hurricane Jova<\/strong><\/a> (which had moved inland across western Mexico on 12 October)<\/em> and Tropical Storm Irwin<\/strong><\/a> (which had been meandering across the Eastern Pacific Ocean for 8 days<\/strong><\/a>, reaching Category 1 hurricane intensity on 07 October)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"MIMIC<\/a>

MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

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McIDAS images of 4-km resolution GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel data (above; click image to play 3-day animation) showed a plume of tropical moisture being drawn into the circulation of a large cut-off low that was part of a “Rex block” that had formed over the far East Pacific Ocean during the 11 October […]<\/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":[10,43,12,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-15","category-modis","category-satellite-winds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9020","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=9020"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9024,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9020\/revisions\/9024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}