{"id":40770,"date":"2021-04-26T23:59:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T23:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=40770"},"modified":"2021-04-28T14:53:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:53:20","slug":"three-rivers-fire-in-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/40770","title":{"rendered":"Three Rivers Fire in New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GOES-17 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) (top left),<\/em> GOES-17 Fire Temperature RGB (top right),<\/em> GOES-16 Fire Power (bottom left)<\/em> and GOES-16 Fire Temperature (bottom right)<\/em> [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector<\/strong><\/a> GOES-17 (GOES-West)<\/em> Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and Fire Temperature RGB<\/strong><\/a> along with 5-minute\u00a0 GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Fire Power<\/strong><\/a> and GOES-16 Fire Temperature<\/strong><\/a> derived products (above)<\/strong> <\/em>showed the thermal signature of the rapidly-growing Three Rivers Fire<\/strong><\/a> in New Mexico on 26 April 2021<\/strong><\/a>. The maximum GOES-17 Shortwave Infrared brightness temperature was 138.7\u00baC — which is the saturation temperature for those ABI detectors — every minute for a solid hour between 1901-2001 UTC. Peak GOES-16 Fire Power and Fire Temperature values during that time were in excess of 2960 MW and 2960 K, respectively. At nearby Ruidoso<\/strong><\/a>, southwesterly winds were gusting as high 39 knots.<\/p>\n

GOES-16 True Color RGB images created using\u00a0Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed 2 distinct “fire jump” events (after 20 UTC, and again after 22 UTC), when smoke\/cloud material was ejected to higher altitudes than the primary smoke plume. In addition, southwest of the large smoke plume a smaller and more diffuse plume of blowing gypsum dust could be seen streaming northeastward from White Sands National Park.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>
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#Sentinel5P<\/a> #TROPOMI<\/a> captured high concentrations of trace gases from #ThreeRiversFire<\/a> in #NewMexico<\/a> on 26 Apr: tropospheric column NO2 (left) & total column CO (right). Per @inciweb<\/a>, fire is 4000 acres, 0% contained.@NMClimate<\/a> @NWSElPaso<\/a> @LincolnUSForest<\/a> @CIMSS_Satellite<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/zLqgRYQ3yC<\/a><\/p>\n

— AerosolWatch (@AerosolWatch) April 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n