{"id":28962,"date":"2018-07-14T23:59:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T23:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=28962"},"modified":"2018-08-03T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:26:09","slug":"ferguson-fire-in-central-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/28962","title":{"rendered":"Ferguson Fire in central California"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/07\/180714_goes15_goes17_goes16_visible_Ferguson_Fire_CA_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/180714_G15_G17_G16_CA_FIRE_23.GIF\" alt=\"Visible images from GOES-15 (0.63 \u00b5m, left), GOES-17 (0.64 \u00b5m, center) and GOES-16 (0.64 \u00b5m, right) [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visible images from <strong>GOES-15<\/strong> <em>(0.63 \u00b5m, left),<\/em> <strong>GOES-17<\/strong> <em>(0.64 \u00b5m, center)<\/em> and <strong>GOES-16<\/strong> <em>(0.64 \u00b5m, right)<\/em> [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/180714_goes15_goes17_goes16_visible_Ferguson_Fire_CA_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* GOES-17 imagery shown here are preliminary and non-operational *<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A comparison of Visible images from GOES-15 <em>(GOES-West),<\/em> GOES-17 and GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em>\u00a0 on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20180714.html\">14 July 2018<\/a><\/strong> is shown above &#8212; in addition to thunderstorms over the high terrain of the Sierra Nevada, the development of a pyrocumulus cloud (with a small overshooting top) can be seen over the <a href=\"https:\/\/inciweb.nwcg.gov\/incident\/5927\/\"><strong>Ferguson Fire<\/strong><\/a> that had been burning for nearly a day near Yosemite National Park in central California.<\/p>\n<p>Images from GOES-16\/17 are at 5-minute intervals, while image intervals from the older GOES-15 satellite range from 5-30 minutes. The improved spatial resolution of the GOES-16\/17 <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a> visible imagery <em>(0.5 km at satellite sub-point, compared to 1.0 km for GOES-15)<\/em> allowed finer details of the overshooting top to be seen &#8212; and the improved image-to-image navigation of the new GOES-16\/17 satellites was also apparent (note the significant navigation errors in a few of the GOES-15 images).<\/p>\n<p>A photo from the ground <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> showed a large pyrocumulus cloud towering over the top of the dense smoke.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FergusonFire?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FergusonFire<\/a> Photo by Al Golub about an hour ago, 530 pm. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hCH593pDlw\">pic.twitter.com\/hCH593pDlw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave Toussaint (@engineco16) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/engineco16\/status\/1018306512370819074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* GOES-17 imagery shown here are preliminary and non-operational * A comparison of Visible images from GOES-15 (GOES-West), GOES-17 and GOES-16 (GOES-East)\u00a0 on 14 July 2018 is shown above &#8212; in addition to thunderstorms over the high terrain of the Sierra Nevada, the development of a pyrocumulus cloud (with a small overshooting top) can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":28966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,43,74,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-15","category-goes-16","category-goes-17"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28962","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=28962"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29187,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28962\/revisions\/29187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}