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Great Lake wildfire in North Carolina

By Scott Bachmeier •

5-minute GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animated GIF | MP4]

5-minute CONUS sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed the northward transport of smoke from the 35,000-acre Great Lake Fire in eastern North Carolina on 21 April 2023.

In a closer view using 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 True Color RGB images (below), intermittent brighter white pyrocumulus clouds were seen in the immediate vicinity of the fire source.

1-minute GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animated GIF | MP4]

1-minute GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and Day Land Cloud Fire RGB images along with the Fire Power and Fire Temperature derived products (below) showed thermal signatures of the fire (the Fire Power and Fire Temperature products are components of the Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm). 3.9 µm infrared brightness temperatures occasionally reached 137.71ºC (the saturation temperature of GOES-16 ABI Band 7 detectors), as early as 1524 UTC and as late as 2143 UTC.

GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm, top left), Day Land Cloud Fire RGB (top right), Fire Power product (bottom left) and Fire Temperature product (bottom right) [click to play animated GIF | MP4]

Categories: Fire detection, GOES-16, Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images