{"id":11148,"date":"2012-08-24T23:59:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T23:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=11148"},"modified":"2012-08-25T17:53:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T17:53:47","slug":"wildfires-in-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/11148","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires in Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> showed the smoke plumes emanting from a number of large wildfires that were burning in parts of Idaho on 24 August 2012<\/strong>. Note that some of the low-altitude smoke was being channeled southward through valleys by strong northerly winds. The surface visibility at Salmon, Idaho (surface identifier KSMN)<\/em> was reduced to 2 miles due to smoke, and at Dillon, Montana (station identifier KDLN)<\/em> the surface visibility dropped to 1.25 miles.<\/p>\n

The GOES-13 satellite had been placed into Rapid Scan Operations (RSO) mode, providing images as frequently as every 5-10 minutes (as opposed to the standard 15-minute image interval).<\/p>\n

\"MODIS<\/a>

MODIS true color image (viewed using Google Earth)<\/p><\/div>\n

A 250-meter resolution Aqua MODIS true color image from the SSEC MODIS Today<\/a><\/strong> site (above; viewed using Google Earth)<\/em><\/strong> showed a detailed view of the smoke plumes at 20:13 UTC.<\/p>\n

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS 3.74 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR + 0.8 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band images<\/p><\/div>\n

During the following night-time hours, a comparison of AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 3.74 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR and 0.8 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band (DNB) data (above)<\/em><\/strong> demonstrated how the DNB imagery can detect the glow of the actively-burning fires (co-located with the black to yellow to red color enhanced “hot spots” on the shortwave IR image)<\/em> in addition to the city lights across the region. Stray light contamination was affecting the far northeastern portion of the DNB image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the smoke plumes emanting from a number of large wildfires that were burning in parts of Idaho on 24 August 2012. Note that some of the low-altitude smoke was being channeled southward through valleys by strong northerly winds. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,11,32,12,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-quality","category-fire-detection","category-goes-13","category-google-earth","category-modis","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11148"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11150,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148\/revisions\/11150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}