{"id":16578,"date":"2014-08-26T23:59:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T23:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=16578"},"modified":"2014-08-27T15:03:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T15:03:17","slug":"modis-false-color-images-show-areas-of-flooding-in-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/16578","title":{"rendered":"MODIS false-color images show areas of flooding in Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/140812-26_modis_falsecolor_MT_flooding_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/140812-26_modis_falsecolor_MT_flooding_anim.gif\" alt=\"Before (12 August) and after (26 August) MODIS false-color RGB images\" width=\"480\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before (12 August) and after (26 August) MODIS false-color RGB images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some locations in northeastern Montana received up to 7-8 inches of rainfall over a 5-day period (<a title=\"NWS Glasgow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wrh.noaa.gov\/ggw\/\"><strong>NWS Glasgow<\/strong><\/a><a title=\"map of rainfall totals\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wrh.noaa.gov\/ggw\/pdf\/Aug2014RainEvent.png\"><strong> rainfall map<\/strong><\/a>), which led to flooding in many areas. A comparison of before <em>(12 August)<\/em> and after <em>(26 August)<\/em> 250-meter resolution MODIS false-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images from the <a title=\"SSEC MODIS Today site\" href=\"http:\/\/ge.ssec.wisc.edu\/modis-today\/index.php?satellite=a1&amp;product=false_color&amp;date=2014_08_26_238\"><strong>SSEC MODIS Today<\/strong><\/a> site<em><strong> (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the areal extent of flooding (cyan to darker blue areas on the 26 August image). The RGB images use MODIS <a title=\"MODIS Bands 7\/2\/1\" href=\"https:\/\/earthdata.nasa.gov\/data\/near-real-time-data\/faq\/rapid-response#\"><strong>bands 7\/2\/1<\/strong><\/a> to help highlight the areas of of floodwater.<\/p>\n<p>The maps below show the total observed rainfall, the departure from normal, and the percent of normal for the 7-day period ending on 26 August.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/MT_rainfall_observed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/MT_rainfall_observed.jpg\" alt=\"Observed 7-day rainfall\" width=\"480\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Observed 7-day rainfall<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/MT_rainfall_departure_from_normal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/MT_rainfall_departure_from_normal.jpg\" alt=\"7-day rainfall departure from normal\" width=\"480\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">7-day rainfall departure from normal<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/MT_rainfall_percent_normal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/MT_rainfall_percent_normal.jpg\" alt=\"7-day rainfall percent of normal\" width=\"480\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">7-day rainfall percent of normal<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some locations in northeastern Montana received up to 7-8 inches of rainfall over a 5-day period (NWS Glasgow rainfall map), which led to flooding in many areas. A comparison of before (12 August) and after (26 August) 250-meter resolution MODIS false-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) showed the areal extent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":16583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heavy-rain-flooding","category-modis","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578","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=16578"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16588,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578\/revisions\/16588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}