Daily imagery from the CSPP Geosphere website above, at 0400 UTC from 12-19 September, show haze (highlighted by the blue arrows) moving across the Pacific Ocean. The haze is likely a by-product of the ongoing eruption at Kilauea. The initial burst of haze moved beyond the view of GOES-West by 19 September, but imagery shows... Read More
10-minute GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) + Fire Power derived product (a component of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) and Day Land Cloud Fire RGB images (above) showed a wildfire east of Fort Nelson (CYYE) in far northeastern British Columbia that produced 3 consecutive pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud pulses late... Read More
5-minute GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) + Fire Power derived product (a component of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) and Fire Temperature RGB images (above) showed signatures of the Game Preserve Fire in northern Walker County, Texas late in the day on 01 September 2023. The wildfire forced... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed dense smoke from Canadian wildfires as it moved across much of the North Central US on 15 July 2023.GOES-16 Visible images with/without an overlay of the Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) derived product is shown below — hourly Ceiling/Visibility observations indicted that the... Read More
