{"id":16707,"date":"2014-09-19T23:59:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T23:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=16707"},"modified":"2014-09-24T02:35:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T02:35:19","slug":"the-king-fire-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/16707","title":{"rendered":"The King Fire in California"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color images<\/p><\/div>\n

The King Fire<\/strong><\/a> began burning in central California (between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe) during the evening hours on 13 September 2014. A sequence of daily (12-19 September) Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images from the SSEC RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> web map server site (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed that as the prevailing southwesterly wind pattern switched to easterly on 19 September, there was a major change in the transport of smoke from the King Fire. The final image in the series zooms out to show how much of central California had become over-run with thick smoke.<\/p>\n

A comparison of AWIPS-II images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00b5m Day\/Night Band and 3.74 \u00b5m shortwave IR image at 09:18 UTC or 2:18 AM local time (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the bright glow of the large fire complex, along with the large fire “hot spot” signature (black to yellow to red color enhancement)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00b5m Day\/Night Band and 3.74 \u00b5m shortwave IR images<\/p><\/div>\n

Suomi NPP VIIRS 3.74 \u00b5m shortwave IR images during the overnight hours (just after 2 AM local time)<\/em> on 17 and 18 September (below)<\/em> showed the dramatic northeastward advance of the fire hot spot signature during that 24-hour period. Smoke from the fire was reducing the surface visibility to 3-4 miles as far to the northeast as Lovelock (KLOL) and Fallon (KNFL) in Nevada.<\/p>\n

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Suomi NPP VIIRS 3.74 \u00b5m shortwave IR images<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The King Fire began burning in central California (between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe) during the evening hours on 13 September 2014. A sequence of daily (12-19 September) Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images from the SSEC RealEarth web map server site (above) showed that as the prevailing southwesterly wind pattern switched to easterly on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":16709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,44,6,53,45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-quality","category-awips-ii","category-fire-detection","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16707","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=16707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16708,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16707\/revisions\/16708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}