{"id":32646,"date":"2019-03-30T23:59:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T23:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=32646"},"modified":"2019-04-05T13:49:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T13:49:18","slug":"goes-glm-signature-of-a-meteor-over-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/32646","title":{"rendered":"GOES-16 GLM signature of a meteor over Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/190331_goes16_nearInfrared_shortwaveInfrared_glm_FL_meteor_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/190331_goes16_nearInfrared_shortwaveInfrared_glm_FL_meteor_anim.gif\" alt=\"GOES-16 Near-Infrared &quot;Snow\/Ice&quot; (1.61 \u00b5m, left), Near-Infrared &quot;Cloud Particle Size&quot; (2.24 \u00b5m, center) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m, right) images, with 1-minute plots of GLM Events [click to enlarge]\" width=\"642\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Near-Infrared &#8220;Snow\/Ice&#8221;<em> (1.61 \u00b5m, left),<\/em> Near-Infrared &#8220;Cloud Particle Size&#8221; <em>(2.24 \u00b5m, center)<\/em> and Shortwave Infrared <em>(3.9 \u00b5m, right)<\/em> images, with 1-minute plots of GLM Events [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A sequence of three GOES-16 Near-Infrared &#8220;Snow\/Ice&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band05.pdf\"><strong>1.61 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), Near-Infrared &#8220;Cloud Particle Size&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band06.pdf\"><strong>2.24 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Shortwave Infrared (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band07.pdf\"><strong>3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images with 1-minute plots of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/spacesegment\/glm.html\"><strong>GLM<\/strong><\/a> Events<em><strong> (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the brief signature of a <a href=\"https:\/\/fireball.amsmeteors.org\/members\/imo_view\/event\/2019\/1439\"><strong>meteor<\/strong><\/a> over the Florida Panhandle during the 0353-0354 UTC time period on 31 March, or 11:53-11:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time on 30 March 2019. The bright meteor signature was captured over northern Taylor County, northwest of the Perry-Foley Airport <em>(station identifier K40J)<\/em> &#8212; the GLM Events are plotted at their approximate location on the Earth&#8217;s surface (using the default GLM <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/217\"><strong>parallax<\/strong><\/a> correction).<\/p>\n<p>The GOES-16 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/spacesegment\/abi.html\"><strong>ABI<\/strong><\/a> instrument was scanning that portion of the Florida Panhandle at 03:52:54 UTC, slightly earlier than the time that the fireball flash was sensed by the GLM instrument, so no corresponding thermal signature was evident in the infrared imagery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sequence of three GOES-16 Near-Infrared &#8220;Snow\/Ice&#8221; (1.61 \u00b5m), Near-Infrared &#8220;Cloud Particle Size&#8221; (2.24 \u00b5m) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images with 1-minute plots of GLM Events (above) showed the brief signature of a meteor over the Florida Panhandle during the 0353-0354 UTC time period on 31 March, or 11:53-11:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":32655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,74,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glm","category-goes-16","category-lightning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32646","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=32646"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32654,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32646\/revisions\/32654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}