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
GOES-East fire detection products in RealEarth allow users to assess burning areas across the Continental United States. In the example below, burning appears to be occurring in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. These fire detections in southern Louisiana are picked up by the GOES scene fire detection and by the GOES fire... Read More
10-minute Full Disk GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed that a wildfire complex in southern Brazil produced a series of 4-5 pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds on 13 November 2023. The coldest pyroCb cloud-top 10.3 µm brightness temperature was -74.4ºC at 1530 UTC.Regarding the wildfire... Read More
Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided 30-second interval GOES-16 (GOES-East) Day Land Cloud Fire RGB images (above) that included an overlay of Fire Power and Fire Mask derived products (2 components of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA) — which showed the thermal signature and dark black smoke plume associated with a fire at the... Read More
