{"id":28145,"date":"2018-05-22T23:59:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T23:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=28145"},"modified":"2018-05-24T19:50:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T19:50:51","slug":"28145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/28145","title":{"rendered":"PyroCb in Ontario, Canada"},"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\/2018\/05\/180522_goes16_visible_shortwaveIR_IRwindow_MB_ON_fires_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/G16_VIS_SWIR_IR_MB_ON_PYROCB_22MAY2018_380x1280_B2713_2018142_204543_0003PANELS_00036.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, top), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m, center) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m, bottom) images, with hourly plots of surface reports [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible <em>(0.64 \u00b5m, top),<\/em> Shortwave Infrared<em> (3.9 \u00b5m, center)<\/em> and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window <em>(10.3 \u00b5m, bottom)<\/em> images, with hourly plots of surface reports [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> \u201cRed\u201d Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), Shortwave Infrared (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band07.pdf\"><strong>3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band13.pdf\"><strong>10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed that Canadian wildfires burning along the Manitoba\/Ontario border produced a pyroCumulonimbus (pyroCb) around 1930 UTC on 22 May 2018.<\/p>\n<p>As the pyroCb moved southeastward over western Ontario, the coldest GOES-16 cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were around -55\u00baC <em>(orange enhancement),<\/em> which corresponded to altitudes of about 10.3 to 10.8 km according the <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/180522_CWPL_RAOBS.TEXT\"><strong>rawinsonde data<\/strong><\/a> from Pickle Lake, Ontario <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/180522_CWPL_RAOBS.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/180522_CWPL_RAOBS.GIF\" alt=\"Rawinsonde data profiles from Pickle Lake, Ontario [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rawinsonde data profiles from Pickle Lake, Ontario [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>In a comparison of 1-km resolution NOAA-19 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m), Shortwave Infrared (3.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.8 \u00b5m) images at 2210 UTC <em><strong>(below),<\/strong><\/em> the minimum cloud-top infrared brightness temperature was -58.1\u00baC<em> (darker orange enhancement),<\/em> which roughly corresponded to altitudes of 10.6 to 11.0 km (just below the tropopause) on the Pickle Lake soundings.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/180522_2210utc_noaa19_visible_shortwaveIR_IRwindow_ON_pyrocb_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/180522_2210utc_noaa19_visible_shortwaveIR_IRwindow_ON_pyrocb_anim.gif\" alt=\"NOAA-19 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m), Shortwave Infrared (3.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.8 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA-19 Visible <em>(0.63 \u00b5m),<\/em> Shortwave Infrared<em> (3.7 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Infrared Window<em> (10.8 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images (above) showed that Canadian wildfires burning along the Manitoba\/Ontario border produced a pyroCumulonimbus (pyroCb) around 1930 UTC on 22 May 2018. As the pyroCb moved southeastward over western Ontario, the coldest GOES-16 cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":28160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,6,74,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avhrr","category-fire-detection","category-goes-16","category-poes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28145","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=28145"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28165,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28145\/revisions\/28165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}