5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images + Nighttime Microphysics RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed large smoke plumes produced by 2 wind-driven grass fires in central Nebraska (just north of North Platte) on 26 February 2024. The burn scar associated with the larger (southernmost) fire was very apparent, as... Read More
All 4 components of the GOES-16 (GOES-East) Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm (FDCA) (above) showed the diurnal variability of thermal signatures associated with a large and deadly wildfire complex near Viña del Mar and Quilpué in the Valparaíso District — located along the central coast of Chile — from 02-04... Read More
A selection of several GOES ABI loops during 2022 showcased the diverse range of features observed, which included volcanic ash plumes, hurricanes, convection, fog, smoke, fires, dust and ice. It’s very hard to choose just one event from every month of the year, but the goal here is to show a variety of phenomena and locations that NOAA‘s GOES... Read More
10-minute JMA Himawari-9 AHI Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and Clean Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed he development of a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud northwest of Tamworth (YSTW) in New South Wales, Australia on 18 December 2023. The coldest cloud-top Infrared Window brightness temperature was -53.4ºC at 1230 UTC.The southern flank of... Read More
