{"id":15620,"date":"2019-05-01T15:48:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T20:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/?p=15620"},"modified":"2019-05-01T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T21:16:13","slug":"nucaps-vs-obs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2019\/05\/01\/nucaps-vs-obs\/","title":{"rendered":"NUCAPS vs. Obs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perfect conditions to utilize NUCAPS soundings today in the FWD CWA. FWD did a special release at 18z and I was able to compare that to a 19z NUCAPS sounding immediately west of FWD, ahead of the ongoing convection north and west of the CWA. They are remarkably similar from the boundary layer upward with very similar MUCAPE\/SBCAPE values around 4600-4800 J\/kg.<\/p>\n<p>This highlights how important these NUCAPS soundings can be in the absence of any 18-20z special balloon releases. I&#8217;m very impressed with how well it lines up with the observed 18z launch and have more confidence in using these in pre-convective environments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Stanley Cupp<\/p>\n<p>18z FWD sounding:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15621\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/kfwd_18z.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"953\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/kfwd_18z.png 953w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/kfwd_18z-900x716.png 900w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/kfwd_18z-768x611.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/kfwd_18z-600x477.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>19z modified-NUCAPS sounding ~25 miles west of FWD<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15623\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/nucaps_dfw_downstream.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"948\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/nucaps_dfw_downstream.png 948w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/nucaps_dfw_downstream-900x723.png 900w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/nucaps_dfw_downstream-768x617.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/nucaps_dfw_downstream-600x482.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NUCAPS location (green dot above mouse cursor) vs. FWD location (yellow home cursor) and 1 minute vis imagery<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15622\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/nucaps.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/nucaps.png 1920w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/nucaps-900x473.png 900w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/nucaps-768x404.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/nucaps-1800x946.png 1800w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/nucaps-600x315.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perfect conditions to utilize NUCAPS soundings today in the FWD CWA. FWD did a special release at 18z and I was able to compare that to a 19z NUCAPS sounding&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2019\/05\/01\/nucaps-vs-obs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-15620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-blogs","category-news","tag-nucaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15624,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620\/revisions\/15624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}