{"id":36578,"date":"2020-05-05T23:45:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T23:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=36578"},"modified":"2020-05-08T03:33:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T03:33:05","slug":"36578","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/36578","title":{"rendered":"River Flooding in Southwest Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200505_2149utc_landsat8_falseColorRGB_AK_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200505_2149utc_landsat8_falseColorRGB_AK_anim.gif\" alt=\"Landsat-8 False Color RGB mage + Google Maps background [click to enlarge]\" width=\"642\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landsat-8 False Color RGB image + Google Maps background [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A Landsat-8 False Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) image as viewed using <a href=\"http:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(above)<\/strong> <\/em>showed areas of flooding<em> (water = darker shades of blue)<\/em> along portions of the Innoko River and the Iditarod River in Southwest Alaska on 05 May 2020. Much of southwestern Alaska had received above-average winter season snowfall &#8212; and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200505_7day_snow_depth_change_AK.png\"><strong>rapid snow melt<\/strong><\/a> was contributing to this river flooding.<\/p>\n<p>The Suomi NPP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov\/jpss\/images\/Harvey\/show\/VIIRSFloodDetectionMapQuickGuide.pdf\"><strong>VIIRS River Flood Areal Extent<\/strong><\/a> product over that same region<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated several areas of 81-90% flooding coverage<em> (red<\/em> <em>enhancement)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/ak_viirs_flooding-20200505_231900.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/ak_viirs_flooding-20200505_231900.png\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS River Flood Areal Extent product [click to enlarge]\" width=\"641\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS River Flood Areal Extent product [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Landsat-8 False Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) image as viewed using RealEarth (above) showed areas of flooding (water = darker shades of blue) along portions of the Innoko River and the Iditarod River in Southwest Alaska on 05 May 2020. Much of southwestern Alaska had received above-average winter season snowfall &#8212; and rapid snow melt was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":36582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,55,53,45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heavy-rain-flooding","category-landsat","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\/36578","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=36578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36583,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36578\/revisions\/36583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}