{"id":34361,"date":"2019-09-15T20:59:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T20:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=34361"},"modified":"2019-09-20T01:57:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T01:57:10","slug":"smoke-plumes-from-saudi-arabian-oil-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/34361","title":{"rendered":"Smoke plumes from Saudi Arabian oil facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VIIRS<\/a>

VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m)<\/em> and Visible (0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 (courtesy of William Straka, CIMSS) [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) imagery from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 (above)<\/strong> <\/em>revealed dark smoke plumes from oil refineries and other facilities damaged by drone strikes early in the day on 14 September 2019.<\/p>\n

EUMETSAT<\/strong><\/a> Meteosat-8 Visible (0.8 \u00b5m) images (below)<\/strong> <\/em>showed the south-southwestward transport of the smoke plumes. Thick smoke drifted over Al Ahsa (OEAH), and at one point restricted to 2.8 miles<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"EUMETSAT<\/a>

EUMETSAT Meteosat-8 Visible (0.8 \u00b5m)<\/em> images, with hourly plots of surface reports [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Before (13 September) and after (14-15 September) True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images from Terra MODIS and Suomi NPP VIIRS as viewed using RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> are shown below.<\/p>\n

\"True<\/a>

True Color RGB images from Terra MODIS and Suomi NPP VIIRS, from 13-15 September [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A sequence of 3 VIIRS Day\/Night Band images from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed nighttime views of the smoke plumes, illuminated by the Moon (which was in the Waning Gibbous phase, at 98% of Full).<\/p>\n

\"VIIRS<\/a>

VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m)<\/em> from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 (courtesy of William Straka, CIMSS) [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A Meteosat-8 Visible animation spanning portions of 14, 15 and 16 September is shown below.<\/p>\n

\"EUMETSAT<\/a>

EUMETSAT Meteosat-8 Visible (0.8 \u00b5m)<\/em> images with hourly plots of surface reports, 14-16 September [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n

===== 17 September Update =====<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Landsat-8<\/a>

Landsat-8 False Color RGB image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A 30-meter resolution Landsat-8 False Color RGB image (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed a number of smoke plumes from oil facility fires that continued to burn on 17 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) imagery from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 (above) revealed dark smoke plumes from oil refineries and other facilities damaged by drone strikes early in the day on 14 September 2019. EUMETSAT Meteosat-8 Visible (0.8 \u00b5m) images (below) showed the south-southwestward transport of the smoke plumes. Thick smoke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":34364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,55,23,12,78,53,45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-quality","category-landsat","category-meteosat","category-modis","category-noaa-20","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34361","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=34361"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34379,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34361\/revisions\/34379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}