{"id":70,"date":"2008-03-26T13:19:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T19:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/visit\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/26\/hawaii-up-close-and-personal\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:06:30","slug":"hawaii-up-close-and-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/2008\/03\/26\/hawaii-up-close-and-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii, Up Close and Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeff Braun<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look at the following three images from the TERRA (EOS AM-1) satellite and the plotted image&nbsp;from the QuickSCAT satellite (courtesy NASA TERRA project &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/terra.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/terra.nasa.gov\/<\/a>) and try to determine: 1. What is going on around the Big Island (first photo &#8211; top)? 2. Which side of the islands tend to get more precipitation and how can you tell and why? 3. Generally,&nbsp;from which direction does the prevailing (low level) wind blow (second and third photos)? 4. Where the convergence zones (boundaries) lie and why (first, second and third photos)? 5. Why the &#8220;silvery&#8221; look to the ocean surrounding the islands (second and third photos)? 6. Why\/how&nbsp;do you get the accelerations around the outside of&nbsp;and between the&nbsp;islands (plotted image four &#8211; bottom) and how\/why do these lead to convergence between?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/03\/hawaii-wake-view.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/03\/hawaii-wake-view.gif\" alt=\"Big Island saltellite imagery dark space over big island seen from above\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/03\/hawaii2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/03\/hawaii2.jpg\" alt=\"Clouds above Hawaii Big Island \"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/03\/hawaiia200314721101km.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/03\/hawaiia200314721101km.jpg\" alt=\"Close image of Hawaii with cloud cover\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/03\/quikscat_hawaii_wake.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/03\/quikscat_hawaii_wake.gif\" alt=\"Quicksat image of islands showing precipitation \" style=\"\"><\/a> \ufffd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Braun Look at the following three images from the TERRA (EOS AM-1) satellite and the plotted image&nbsp;from the QuickSCAT satellite (courtesy NASA TERRA project &#8211; http:\/\/terra.nasa.gov\/) and try to determine: 1. What is going on around the Big Island (first photo &#8211; top)? 2. Which side of the islands tend to get more precipitation <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/2008\/03\/26\/hawaii-up-close-and-personal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,28],"tags":[67,146,187,224,228,243],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-effects","category-satellites","tag-aster","tag-hawaii","tag-modis","tag-quickscat","tag-satellite","tag-terra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4752,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/4752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/visit-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}