Two large fires burning in southern Colorado began to produce pyrocumulonimbus clouds and very large smoke plumes, as seen on GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel (top panels) and 3.9 µm shortwave IR images (bottom panels)  on 19 June (above; click image to play... Read More

McIDAS images of GOES-15 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) revealed an uncharacteristically cloud-free view of most of the interior of Alaska on 17 June 2013. A large blocking ridge of high... Read More

McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel and 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the large smoke plumes and fire “hot spots” (dark black pixels on the shortwave IR imagery) associated with the Germann Road Fire in northwestern Wisconsin and the Green Valley Fire... Read More

A comparison of McIDAS images of 1-km resolution GOES-15 (GOES-West) and GOES-13 (GOES-East) 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the smoke plume from the Springs Fire near Camarillo, California on 02 May 2013. GOES-15 (positioned over the Equator at 135º West longitude) had a better viewing... Read More