{"id":41021,"date":"2021-06-06T23:59:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T23:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=41021"},"modified":"2021-06-08T03:00:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T03:00:20","slug":"enhanced-aerosols-along-a-cold-front-in-the-upper-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/41021","title":{"rendered":"Enhanced aerosols along a cold front in the Upper Midwest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GOES-16 CIMSS Natural Color RGB images and Aerosol Optical Depth product [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> CIMSS Natural Color RGB<\/strong><\/a> images along with the Aerosol Optical Depth<\/strong><\/a> derived product (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed a cold front that was acting to focus a hazy band of aerosols — likely smoke — across the Upper Midwest on 06 June 2021<\/strong><\/a>. AOD values in the vicinity of the cold front were as high as 2.0 (darker blue)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The hazy signature of the cold frontal aerosols was better highlighted by GOES-16 True Color RGB images,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>created using\u00a0Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> (below)<\/em><\/strong>. One feature of interest was the group of long shadows<\/strong><\/a> cast by convective towers onto the top of the aerosol layer in central\u00a0 Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

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GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>In addition, 2 relatively long smoke plumes could be seen streaming rapidly east-southeastward across northern North Dakota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOES-16 (GOES-East) CIMSS Natural Color RGB images along with the Aerosol Optical Depth derived product (above) showed a cold front that was acting to focus a hazy band of aerosols — likely smoke — across the Upper Midwest on 06 June 2021. AOD values in the vicinity of the cold front were as high as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":41023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41021","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=41021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41026,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41021\/revisions\/41026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}