{"id":23727,"date":"2017-04-07T12:59:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T12:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=23727"},"modified":"2017-04-09T02:32:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T02:32:35","slug":"thermal-signature-of-missile-strikes-at-shayrat-air-base-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23727","title":{"rendered":"Thermal signature of missile strikes at Shayrat Air Base in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/04\/170407_meteosat10_shortwave_infrared_Syria_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/04\/170407_MET10_SWIR_SYRIA_03.GIF\" alt=\"EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images, with hourly surface reports; Shayrat Air Base is located at the center of the cyan circle [click to play animation]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images, with hourly surface reports; Shayrat Air Base is located at the center of the cyan circle [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the thermal signature or &#8220;hot spot&#8221; <em>(darker black pixels)<\/em> of fires resulting from US missile strikes at Syria&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shayrat_Air_Base\"><strong>Shayrat Air Base<\/strong><\/a> on 07 April 2017. The warmest infrared brightness temperature was 300.22 K on the 0030 UTC image (the SEVIRI instrument was scanning the Shayrat region at 00:40 UTC), which was about 25 K warmer than the surrounding background temperatures; though the fires were much smaller than the nominal 3 km spatial resolution of the 3.9 \u00b5m detector, the sub-pixel effect enables a signal of the fire radiative power to be registered.<\/p>\n<p>A toggle between the 0015 and 0030 UTC images displayed using McIDAS-V <em><strong>(below; <\/strong>courtesy of William Straka, SSEC<strong>)<\/strong><\/em> highlights the appearance of the thermal signature at Shayrat Air Base. Two persistent hot spots located northeast of Palmyra could have been due to refinery or mining activities.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/04\/170407_0015_003utc_meteosat10_shortwave_infrared_Syria_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/04\/170407_0015_003utc_meteosat10_shortwave_infrared_Syria_anim.gif\" alt=\"EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images at 0015 and 0030 UTC [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images at 0015 and 0030 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images (above) showed the thermal signature or &#8220;hot spot&#8221; (darker black pixels) of fires resulting from US missile strikes at Syria&#8217;s\u00a0Shayrat Air Base on 07 April 2017. The warmest infrared brightness temperature was 300.22 K on the 0030 UTC image (the SEVIRI instrument was scanning the Shayrat region at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,51,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-mcidas-v","category-meteosat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23727","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=23727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23728,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23727\/revisions\/23728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}