{"id":31569,"date":"2019-01-30T23:59:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T23:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=31569"},"modified":"2019-02-05T21:06:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T21:06:05","slug":"paper-mill-fire-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/31569","title":{"rendered":"Paper mill fire in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-16<\/a>

GOES-16 Near-Infrared “Snow\/Ice” (1.61 \u00b5m, top),<\/em> Near-Infrared “Cloud Particle Size” (2.24 \u00b5m, center)<\/em> and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m, bottom)<\/em> images, with hourly plots of surface observations [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Near-Infrared “Snow\/Ice” (1.61 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), Near-Infrared “Cloud Particle Size” (2.24 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m)<\/strong><\/a> images (above)<\/strong> <\/em>displayed thermal signatures from a large fire at the Marcal Paper Mill in Elmwood Park, New Jersey during the evening hours of 30 January 2019<\/strong><\/a>. The fire reportedly began around 2215 UTC or 5:15 PM local time — and during the subsequent hours, strong winds with very cold temperatures (falling to the single digits above zero F)<\/em> in the wake of a cold frontal passage hampered the firefighting efforts. Note on the plots of surface observations that smoke (K) was reported immediately downwind of the fire at Teterboro Airport<\/strong><\/a> (station identifier KTEB)<\/em> from 02 to 05 UTC.<\/p>\n

The nighttime thermal signatures seen on the near-infrared 1.61 \u00b5m and 2.24 \u00b5m images (brighter white pixels)<\/em> result from the fact that those two ABI<\/strong><\/a> spectral bands are located close to the peak emitted radiance of very hot features such as volcanic eruptions or large fires (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Plots<\/a>

Plots of Spectral Response Functions for ABI Bands 5 (1.61 \u00b5m),<\/em> 6 (2.24 \u00b5m)<\/em> and 7 (3.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>The thermal signature of the fire became less distinct in GOES-16 imagery after about 06 UTC, but was still well-defined in higher-resolution VIIRS<\/strong><\/a> Shortwave Infrared (3.74 \u00b5m) imagery (below)<\/strong><\/em> from NOAA-20 (overpass data acquired at 0614 and 0754 UTC<\/strong><\/a>) and Suomi NPP (overpass data acquired at 0704 UTC<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"VIIRS<\/a>

VIIRS Shortwave Infrared (3.74 \u00b5m)<\/em> images from NOAA-20 (at 0614 and 0754 UTC) and Suomi NPP (at 0704 UTC) [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Near-Infrared “Snow\/Ice” (1.61 \u00b5m), Near-Infrared “Cloud Particle Size” (2.24 \u00b5m) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images (above) displayed thermal signatures from a large fire at the Marcal Paper Mill in Elmwood Park, New Jersey during the evening hours of 30 January 2019. The fire reportedly began around 2215 UTC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":31579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,74,78,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-16","category-noaa-20","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31569","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=31569"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31657,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31569\/revisions\/31657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}