{"id":24400,"date":"2017-07-08T23:59:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T23:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=24400"},"modified":"2017-07-13T17:29:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T17:29:42","slug":"goes-16-wildfires-in-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/24400","title":{"rendered":"GOES-16: wildfires in southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images, with hourly surface plots [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>* GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing *<\/em><\/p>\n

As southern California experienced a record-setting heatwave, 2 large wildfires were burning in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties on 08 July 2017<\/strong><\/a>: the Alamo Fire and the Whittier Fire<\/strong><\/a>. GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the smoke plumes and hot spots (red pixels)<\/em> associated with these 2 fires.<\/p>\n

The dense smoke plumes also exhibited a signature on the Near-Infrared “Cirrus” (1.37 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images (below),<\/strong><\/em> even though they were not composed of ice crystals (note that 10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a> Infrared Window brightness temperatures of the smoke plumes were warmer than -20\u00ba C, cyan color enhancement, the entire day). This example demonstrates that in a dry atmosphere, the “Cirrus” imagery will also be able to detect the presence of any airborne particles that are efficient scatterers of light (which includes smoke, dust and volcanic ash).<\/p>\n

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, left), Near-Infrared Cirrus (1.37 \u00b5m, center) and Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m, right) images, with station identifiers plotted in yellow [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>During\u00a0 the nighttime prior to sunrise, with the benefit of ample illumination from a Full Moon, a long smoke plume streaming southwestward from the Alamo Fire was clearly seen on Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) imagery at 0910 UTC or 2:10 am local time (below)<\/strong><\/em>. A very bright glow — larger than that of some nearby city lights — was co-located with the large hot spot on the corresponding Shortwave Infrared (3.74 \u00b5m) image.<\/p>\n

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Shortwave Infrared (3.74 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing * As southern California experienced a record-setting heatwave, 2 large wildfires were burning in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties on 08 July 2017: the Alamo Fire and the Whittier Fire. GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":24402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,74,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-16","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24400","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=24400"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24484,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24400\/revisions\/24484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}