{"id":814,"date":"2012-07-26T15:02:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T20:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/?p=814"},"modified":"2012-07-26T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T20:03:18","slug":"satellites-take-great-lakes-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/814","title":{"rendered":"Satellites Take Great Lakes&#8217; Temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SSEC\/CIMSS, using data gathered by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (<a href=\"http:\/\/ge.ssec.wisc.edu\/modis-today\/about.html\">MODIS<\/a>) instruments on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/KGRL_TERRA_LATEST_8DAY_SST.GIF\">Terra<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/KGRL_AQUA_LATEST_8DAY_SST.GIF\">Aqua<\/a>\u00a0polar-orbiting satellites, has compiled an\u00a08-day <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/db_products\/SST\/kgrl_8day.html\">average<\/a> of\u00a0surface temperatures of the Great Lakes.<\/p>\n<p>Persistent heat over the upper Midwest and Eastern United States for the first half of 2012 have helped warm Great Lakes surface water temperatures.\u00a0A surface temperature\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/AVHRR_SST_20120723_1726.png\">image from AVHRR<\/a>\u00a0(the image doesn\u2019t include all of Lake Superior) also shows warm temperatures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2012\/07\/MODISgreatlakes_565_540.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-821\" title=\"MODISgreatlakes_565_540\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2012\/07\/MODISgreatlakes_565_540.jpg\" alt=\"lake temperatures image\" width=\"565\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2012\/07\/MODISgreatlakes_565_540.jpg 565w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2012\/07\/MODISgreatlakes_565_540-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2012\/07\/MODISgreatlakes_565_540-313x300.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MODIS estimates of Lake Surface temperature, above, show only a small region of temperatures cooler than 60 F in the entire Lake system in a very small region near Isle Royale in Lake Superior.\u00a0All other temperatures exceed 60 F.<\/p>\n<p>The Sea Grant\u00a0Coast Watch supplies maps of Great Lakes temperatures: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coastwatch.msu.edu\/twosuperiors.html\">Superior<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coastwatch.msu.edu\/twohurons.html\">Huron<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coastwatch.msu.edu\/twomichigans.html\">Michigan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coastwatch.msu.edu\/twoeries.html\">Erie<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coastwatch.msu.edu\/twoontarios.html\">Ontario<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polar-orbiters Explore Great Lakes&#8217; Temperatures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-articles"],"acf":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}