{"id":41333,"date":"2021-06-30T23:59:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T23:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=41333"},"modified":"2021-07-02T02:18:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T02:18:32","slug":"pyrocumulonimbus-clouds-over-british-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/41333","title":{"rendered":"Pyrocumulonimbus clouds over British Columbia and California"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GOES-17 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, top),<\/em> Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m, middle)<\/em> and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m, bottom) <\/em>[click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-17 (GOES-West)<\/em>\u00a0\u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images\u00a0(above)<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>showed the explosive formation of large pyrocumulonimbus<\/strong><\/a> (pyroCb) clouds that were spawned by large wildfires in British Columbia, Canada on 30 June 2021. The 10.35 \u00b5m cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures rapidly cooled to the -50 to -60\u00baC range, easily surpassing the -40\u00baC pyroCb threshold — and pyroCb 3.9 \u00b5m cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were warmer (darker shades of gray) than those of surrounding meteorological cumulonimbus clouds (due to the presence of smaller ice crystals and smoke particles, which were better reflectors of incoming solar radiation).<\/p>\n

GOES-17 Fire Temperature RGB images (below)<\/strong><\/em> include surface reports plotted in yellow — note that the temperature reached 115\u00baF (46.1\u00baC) at Kamloops (CYKA), just southeast of the largest fire. In addition, farther to the southwest, surface observations at Lytton (CWLY) ceased as of 01 UTC (6 PM local time), as another wildfire began to destroy 90% of that town.<\/p>\n

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GOES-17 Fire Temperature RGB images, with surface reports plotted in yellow [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n

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GOES-17 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, top),<\/em> Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m, middle)<\/em> and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m, bottom)<\/em> [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>On a smaller spatial and temporal scale, GOES-17 Visible, Shortwave Infrared and Infrared Window images (above)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0revealed the brief formation of a pyroCb that was produced by the Lava Fire<\/strong><\/a> in far northern California. A portion of the cloud top reached the -40\u00baC threshold (darker shades of blue) to qualify as a pyroCb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOES-17 (GOES-West)\u00a0\u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images\u00a0(above)\u00a0showed the explosive formation of large pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds that were spawned by large wildfires in British Columbia, Canada on 30 June 2021. The 10.35 \u00b5m cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures rapidly cooled to the -50 to -60\u00baC range, easily surpassing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":41340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,80,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-17","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41333","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=41333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41342,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41333\/revisions\/41342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}