{"id":18921,"date":"2015-07-17T18:31:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T18:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=18921"},"modified":"2015-07-18T22:43:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T22:43:41","slug":"wildfires-in-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/18921","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color image (actual satellite overpass time 1112 UTC)<\/p><\/div>\n

Suomi NPP VIIRS (above; toggle with Google maps<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> and Aqua MODIS (below; toggle with Google maps<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images visualized using SSEC RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> showed 2 smoke plumes from wildfires burning in Greece on 17 July 2015. These fires were causing evacuations in some areas, according to the Wildfire Today<\/strong><\/a> site.<\/p>\n

\"Aqua<\/a>

Aqua MODIS true-color image composite (actual satellite overpass times 1102 UTC and 1240 UTC)<\/p><\/div>\n

Surface observations around the time of the images (below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that air temperatures were in the 90-100\u00ba F (32.2-37.8\u00ba C) range at many sites across the region. Winds at Athens were from the northeast at 26 knots, with gusts to 36 knots (time series plot<\/strong><\/a> of surface data). Near the edge of the larger smoke plume to the southwest, the surface visibility was restricted to 5 miles at Kithira (but was as low as 3 miles at 10 UTC: time series plot<\/strong><\/a> of surface data).<\/p>\n

\"Aqua<\/a>

Aqua MODIS true-color image, with Athens, Greece surface observation (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Aqua<\/a>

Aqua MODIS true-color image, with Kithira, Greece surface observation (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

EUMETSAT<\/a><\/strong> Meteosat-10 High Resolution Visible (0.8 \u00b5m) and shortwave IR (3.92 \u00b5m) images (below; click to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file<\/a><\/strong>)<\/strong><\/em> showed thee temporal evolution of the smoke plume and the associated fire hot spots (dark black to red pixels)<\/em>. Athens is located within the cyan circle on the images.<\/p>\n

\"Meteosat-10<\/a>

Meteosat-10 visible and shortwave IR images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Suomi NPP VIIRS (above; toggle with Google maps) and Aqua MODIS (below; toggle with Google maps) true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images visualized using SSEC RealEarth showed 2 smoke plumes from wildfires burning in Greece on 17 July 2015. These fires were causing evacuations in some areas, according to the Wildfire Today site. Surface observations around the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":18931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23,12,53,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-meteosat","category-modis","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921","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=18921"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18934,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921\/revisions\/18934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}