{"id":191,"date":"2006-10-19T23:06:43","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T23:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2006\/10\/19\/power-plant-plumes\/"},"modified":"2006-10-25T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T15:10:15","slug":"power-plant-plumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/191","title":{"rendered":"Power plant plumes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AWIPS<\/a>
\nThe AWIPS image of MODIS 11.0\u00c2\u00b5m-3.7\u00c2\u00b5m “fog\/stratus product” (above)<\/strong><\/em> reveals several long plumes embedded within the extensive stratus cloud deck (yellow to red enhancement) that covered much of northern and central Minnesota during the pre-dawn hours on 19 October<\/strong><\/a>. These plumes likely originated at large coal-fired power plants<\/strong><\/a> (or paper mills?) located across that region — emissions from these industrial sources may have acted as cloud condensation nuclei, causing a higher concentration of smaller<\/em> supercooled cloud droplets downwind of the plants.<\/p>\n

The MODIS Cloud Phase product (below, lower left panel)<\/span> showed that this stratus deck was primarily a water-phase cloud (blue enhancement); MODIS 11.0\u00c2\u00b5m IR window channel brightness temperatures<\/strong><\/a> were generally around -14 C across that region, indicating that the stratus cloud was composed of supercooled water droplets. Note that these power plant plumes were not<\/em> evident on the 4 km resolution GOES fog\/stratus product (below, upper right panel)<\/span>. The GOES sounder Cloud Top Height<\/strong><\/a> values were around 11-12 kft over the area.
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The AWIPS image of MODIS 11.0\u00c2\u00b5m-3.7\u00c2\u00b5m “fog\/stratus product” (above) reveals several long plumes embedded within the extensive stratus cloud deck (yellow to red enhancement) that covered much of northern and central Minnesota during the pre-dawn hours on 19 October. These plumes likely originated at large coal-fired power plants (or paper mills?) located across that region […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-sounder","category-goes-12","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","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=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}