{"id":405,"date":"2007-05-03T19:04:39","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T19:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2007\/05\/03\/thick-smoke-from-the-georgia-fires\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T02:09:31","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T02:09:31","slug":"thick-smoke-from-the-georgia-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/405","title":{"rendered":"Thick smoke from the Georgia fires"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While the large (472,000 acre) Sweat Farm Road \/ Big Turnaround fire complex<\/strong><\/a> continued to burn for the 17th consecutive day south of Waycross, Georgia, a second fire (the 6000-acre Roundabout fire west of Waycross) was also beginning to produce very thick smoke on 02 May 2007<\/strong><\/a>. GOES-12 visible imagery (above; Java animation<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> showed the transport of the smoke — many surface stations reported smoke or haze across southeastern Georgia, northeastern Florida, and far southeastern South Carolina that day (and EPA AIRNow<\/strong><\/a> particle Air Quality Indices were in the “Moderate” to “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” category<\/strong><\/a>). It is interesting to note that parts of the smoke pall were thick enough to reduce surface heating to the point that afternoon cumulus cloud formation was inhibited — a similar effect was discussed a few days earlier on the UMBC “US Air Quality” blog<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The MODIS aerosol optical depth (AOD) product from the IDEA<\/strong><\/a> site (below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated very high AOD values of 0.8 to 1.0. The 02 May IDEA trajectory forecast<\/strong><\/a> suggested that much of this smoke would experience a local recirculation during the following 24-48 hours, along with a transport of some smoke northeastward along the coastal portions of South Carolina and North Carolina. The MODIS AOD product<\/strong><\/a> and MODIS visible imagery<\/strong><\/a> from the next day (03 May 2007<\/strong><\/a>) verified this forecast, with thick smoke remaining over the general source region, in addition to a filament of smoke reaching as far northeastward as the outer banks of North Carolina.<\/p>\n

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While the large (472,000 acre) Sweat Farm Road \/ Big Turnaround fire complex continued to burn for the 17th consecutive day south of Waycross, Georgia, a second fire (the 6000-acre Roundabout fire west of Waycross) was also beginning to produce very thick smoke on 02 May 2007. GOES-12 visible imagery (above; Java animation) showed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-quality","category-goes-12","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","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=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}