{"id":1167,"date":"2018-07-12T12:17:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.essl.org\/testbed\/blog\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2018-07-12T12:19:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:19:32","slug":"nwc-saf-cloud-top-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/testbed\/blog\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"NWC-SAF Cloud Top Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The height of convective cloud tops is not only interesting for aviation, but also for case studies of severe storms and of course for nowcasting.<\/p>\n<p>A case of yesterday showed the eyepicking nature of an alternative colour scale for a severe storm near Zaragoza in Spain with tops between 15 and 16 km of height (see magenta pixel). A positive reaction to this display was also received <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/essl_ecss\">on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1168\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.essl.org\/testbed\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Dh1aLZmX0AMuPPs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1168\" src=\"http:\/\/www.essl.org\/testbed\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Dh1aLZmX0AMuPPs-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/testbed\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Dh1aLZmX0AMuPPs-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/testbed\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Dh1aLZmX0AMuPPs-342x300.jpg 342w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/testbed\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Dh1aLZmX0AMuPPs.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NWC-SAF cloud top height product with alternative colour scale being tested at the ESSL Testbed<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The height of convective cloud tops is not only interesting for aviation, but also for case studies of severe storms and of course for nowcasting. A case of yesterday showed the eyepicking nature of an alternative colour scale for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/testbed\/blog\/?p=1167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essl-testbed-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/testbed\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/testbed\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/testbed\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/testbed\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/testbed\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/testbed\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/testbed\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/testbed\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/testbed\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/testbed\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}