{"id":233641,"date":"2018-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/typhoon-mangkut-asia\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T11:09:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T09:09:32","slug":"typhoon-mangkut-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/typhoon-mangkut-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring the Super Typhoon Mangkhut in Southeast Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Southeast Asia, typhoons happened more regularly than in others areas. On September 15, 2018, super Typhoon Mangkhut hit the Philippines with winds reaching 255 km \/ h, heavy rains and huge waves.<\/p>\n<p>While super typhoon Mangkhut is heading towards southeast Asia threatening to make landfall, teams from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifremer.fr\/\">IFremer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/cls-group\/\">CLS<\/a> are monitoring and studying it using <strong>Earth Observation satellites<\/strong>. From 700 km above, our experts, in collaboration with space agencies, are able to track the hurricane\u2019s path guided by information from major weather forecast agencies. Using <a href=\"https:\/\/datastore.groupcls.com\/\"><strong>Earth Observation data<\/strong><\/a>, our experts are able to characterize the associated ocean surface wind speed. The team uses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copernicus.eu\/\">Copernicus<\/a> data along with other higher resolution data from multiple commercial providers (courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bretel.eu\/\">GIS BreTel<\/a>) to deliver the highest measurement accuracy. These observations and measurements are crucial to provide accurate information on these extreme events for the weather agencies as well as the emergency coordination bodies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6351 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RS2_roughness_cross_final-1.gif\" alt=\"Typhoon Mangkhut SAR\" width=\"518\" height=\"650\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6352 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/S1_owi_wind_speed_animation_final.gif\" alt=\"Typhoon Mangkut wind speed\" width=\"518\" height=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Twitter<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"fr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wow typhooned out. Live <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/MangkhutTyphoon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MangkhutTyphoon<\/a> is bloody scary and getting worse by the second <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2vlgjvTI0K\">pic.twitter.com\/2vlgjvTI0K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sara Taseer (@sarataseer) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sarataseer\/status\/1041169809201750016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">16 septembre 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"fr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Serious situation in Hongkong Never happened before <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Manghkut?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Manghkut<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Manghut?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Manghut<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/MangkhutTyphoon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MangkhutTyphoon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EGLtYM6TrX\">pic.twitter.com\/EGLtYM6TrX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ahtesham bokhari (@ahteshamBokhari) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ahteshamBokhari\/status\/1041395337141870603?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">16 septembre 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Southeast Asia, typhoons happened more regularly than in others areas. On September 15, 2018, super Typhoon Mangkhut hit the Philippines with winds reaching 255 km \/ h, heavy rains and huge waves. While super typhoon Mangkhut is heading towards southeast Asia threatening to make landfall, teams from IFremer and CLS are monitoring and studying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment-and-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234113,"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233641\/revisions\/234113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cls.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}