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Category: VIIRS

Pyrocumulonimbus clouds produced by wildfires in British Columbia and Alberta

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