{"id":38007,"date":"2020-08-23T23:59:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T23:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=38007"},"modified":"2020-08-25T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T19:00:00","slug":"castle-fire-pyrocumulonimbus-cloud-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/38007","title":{"rendered":"Castle Fire pyrocumulonimbus cloud in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/08\/200823_goes17_visible_shortwaveInfrared_infrared_Castle_Fire_CA_pyrocb_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/08\/ca_pcb_ir-20200823_202059.png\" alt=\"GOES-17 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) images\u00a0 [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"641\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-17 \u201cRed\u201d Visible <em>(0.64 \u00b5m),<\/em> Shortwave Infrared<em> (3.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window <em>(10.35 \u00b5m)<\/em> images\u00a0 [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/08\/200823_goes17_visible_shortwaveInfrared_infrared_Castle_Fire_CA_pyrocb_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23225\"><strong>Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0GOES-17\u00a0<em>(GOES-West) \u201c<\/em>Red\u201d Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), Shortwave Infrared (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band07.pdf\"><strong>3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band13.pdf\"><strong>10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images\u00a0<strong>(above)<\/strong> showed the formation of a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud that was spawned by the <a href=\"https:\/\/inciweb.nwcg.gov\/incident\/7048\/\"><strong>Castle Fire<\/strong><\/a> in California on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20200823.html\"><strong>23 August 2020<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The coldest pyroCb cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were around -50\u00baC &#8211;according to 00 UTC <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/08\/200824_00UTC_KVEF_RAOB_DATA.TEXT\"><strong>rawinsonde data<\/strong><\/a> from Las Vegas, Nevada <em><strong>(below)<\/strong> <\/em>indicated that this temperature corresponded to altitudes around 12 km.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/08\/200824_00UTC_KVEF_RAOB.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/08\/200824_00UTC_KVEF_RAOB.GIF\" alt=\"Plot of 00 UTC rawinsonde data from Las Vegas, NV [click to enlarge]\" width=\"643\" height=\"483\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plot of 00 UTC rawinsonde data from Las Vegas, NV [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute\u00a0Mesoscale Domain Sector\u00a0GOES-17\u00a0(GOES-West) \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images\u00a0(above) showed the formation of a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud that was spawned by the Castle Fire in California on 23 August 2020. The coldest pyroCb cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were around -50\u00baC &#8211;according to 00 UTC rawinsonde data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":38009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-17"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38007","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=38007"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38070,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38007\/revisions\/38070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}