{"id":9636,"date":"2012-01-25T23:59:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T23:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=9636"},"modified":"2012-01-26T22:29:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T22:29:52","slug":"nasa-renames-npp-satellite-in-honor-of-wisconsins-verner-suomi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/9636","title":{"rendered":"NASA renames NPP satellite in honor of Wisconsin’s Verner Suomi"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS visible and IR images of the eye of Tropical Cyclone Funso<\/p><\/div>\n

On 24 January 2012 NASA renamed the recently-launched NPP satellite (formerly known as the N<\/strong>POES P<\/strong>reparatory P<\/strong>roject)<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 the Suomi N<\/strong>ational P<\/strong>olar-orbiting P<\/strong>artnership (or Suomi NPP<\/a><\/strong>)<\/em> in honor of Dr. Verner Suomi, recognized as “the father of satellite meteorology” (see: NASA News<\/strong><\/a> | University of Wisconsin News<\/a><\/strong>). A comparison of Suomi NPP 375-meter resolution VIIRS 0.640 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 11.450 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (above)<\/em><\/strong> showed the eye of Category 4 Tropical Cyclone Funso, which was located in the Mozambique Channel between Africa and Madagascar at 11:02 UTC on 24 January (track of Tropical Cyclone Funso<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n

On 25 January 2012<\/strong><\/a>, another Suomi NPP 375-meter resolution VIIRS 11.450 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image (below)<\/em><\/strong> displayed very cold cloud top IR brightness temperatures (as low as -77\u00c2\u00ba C) associated with a large thunderstom complex over Texas — this storm produced hail up to 1.25 inches in diameter (SPC storm reports<\/a><\/strong>) and heavy rainfall of up to 9.29 inches at Uhland (NWS Austin\/San Antonio Texas Public Information Statement<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.450 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image<\/p><\/div>\n

The corresponding 4-km resolution GOES-13 (GOES-East)<\/em> 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image (below)<\/em><\/strong> showed much less structure to the cloud top temperature field, with the coldest IR brightness temperature being -70\u00c2\u00ba C.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 24 January 2012 NASA renamed the recently-launched NPP satellite (formerly known as the NPOES Preparatory Project)\u00c2\u00a0 the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (or Suomi NPP) in honor of Dr. Verner Suomi, recognized as “the father of satellite meteorology” (see: NASA News | University of Wisconsin News). A comparison of Suomi NPP 375-meter resolution VIIRS 0.640 […]<\/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":[11,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-13","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636","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=9636"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9665,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636\/revisions\/9665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}