{"id":14158,"date":"2013-10-17T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T23:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=14158"},"modified":"2013-10-18T03:14:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T03:14:38","slug":"bush-fires-burning-in-the-sydney-australia-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/14158","title":{"rendered":"Bush fires burning in the Sydney, Australia region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"http:\/\/pyrocb.ssec.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/131015-17_mtsat_vis_swir_sidney_fires_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MTSAT-2 visible channel (left) and shortwave IR channel (right) images (click to play animation)\" alt=\"MTSAT-2 visible channel (left) and shortwave IR channel (right) images (click to play animation)\" src=\"http:\/\/pyrocb.ssec.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/131015-17_MTSAT_VIS_SWIR_SIDNEY_FIRES_35.GIF\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MTSAT-2 visible channel (left) and shortwave IR channel (right) images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Numerous bush fires began to burn in state of New South Wales near Sydney, Australia on 16-17 October 2013. On a comparison of MTSAT-2 visible channel and shortwave IR channel images <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> some of the southeastward-drifting smoke plumes were evident on the visible images, while numerous fire &#8220;hot spots&#8221; <em>(dark black pixels)<\/em> could be seen on the shortwave IR images. Toward the end of the animation <em>(06:32 UTC on 17 October),<\/em> the hot fire pixels grew in areal coverage as winds increased in association with a cold frontal passage.<\/p>\n<p>A 48-hour plot of surface data for Sydney Airport <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that smoke reduced the surface visibility to 4-5 miles for several hours on 17 October. Prior to the passage of the cold front, surface air temperatures were unseasonably hot <em>(in the middle 90s F),<\/em> with wind gusts as high as 38 knots. In addition, note the sharp drop in dew point temperature to -2\u00c2\u00ba F at 04 UTC on 17 October.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pyrocb.ssec.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/131015-17_YSSY_SURFACE_MG.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Plot of Sydney Airport surface meteorolofical data\" alt=\"Plot of Sydney Airport surface meteorolofical data\" src=\"http:\/\/pyrocb.ssec.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/131015-17_YSSY_SURFACE_MG.GIF\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plot of Sydney Airport surface meteorolofical data<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A 250-meter resolution Aqua MODIS true color image from the <a title=\"NASA EOSDIS Worldview site\" href=\"https:\/\/earthdata.nasa.gov\/labs\/worldview\/\"><strong>NASA EOSDIS Worldview<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> offers a closer view of the smoke plumes in the Sydney area.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pyrocb.ssec.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/131017_aqua_modis_truecolor_sydney_australia_fires.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Aqua MODIS true color image\" alt=\"Aqua MODIS true color image\" src=\"http:\/\/pyrocb.ssec.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/131017_aqua_modis_truecolor_sydney_australia_fires.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aqua MODIS true color image<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous bush fires began to burn in state of New South Wales near Sydney, Australia on 16-17 October 2013. On a comparison of MTSAT-2 visible channel and shortwave IR channel images (above; click image to play animation) some of the southeastward-drifting smoke plumes were evident on the visible images, while numerous fire &#8220;hot spots&#8221; (dark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":14160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-quality","category-fire-detection","category-modis","category-mtsat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14158","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=14158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14159,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14158\/revisions\/14159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}