{"id":42069,"date":"2021-08-17T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=42069"},"modified":"2021-08-20T16:17:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:17:01","slug":"calfor-fire-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/42069","title":{"rendered":"Calfor Fire in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/210817_goes17_goes15_goes14_goes16_shortwaveInfrared_Caldor_Fire_CA_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/G17_G15_G14_G16_CALDOR_FIRE_CA_17AUG2021_B7227_2021229_234525_0004PANELS_FRAME0000706.GIF\" alt=\"Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images from GOES-17, GOES-15, GOES-14 and GOES-16 [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"640\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shortwave Infrared <em>(3.9 \u00b5m)<\/em> images from GOES-17, GOES-15, GOES-14 and GOES-16 [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/210817_goes17_goes15_goes14_goes16_shortwaveInfrared_Caldor_Fire_CA_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/inciweb.nwcg.gov\/incident\/7801\/\"><strong>Caldor Fire<\/strong><\/a> (east of Sacramento, California) exhibited unprecedented growth on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20210817.html\"><strong>17 August 2021<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; increasing from 3600 acres burned in the morning to 30,000 acres that evening, with 0% containment &#8212; and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images from 1-minute GOES-17, 15 to 30-minute GOES-15, 15 to 30-minute GOES-14 and 5-minute GOES-16 <em><strong>(above) <\/strong><\/em>displayed a rapid expansion of the fire&#8217;s thermal anomaly <em>(large cluster of hot pixels, darker black enhancement; the white pixels seen in GOES-15 images were due to a &#8220;wrap-around&#8221; effect with that satellite&#8217;s saturated 3.9 \u00b5m detectors).<\/em> Each of the 4 image panels are displayed in the native projection of that particular satellite.<\/p>\n<p>GOES-17 True Color RGB images created using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/geo2grid\/\"><strong>Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the large amounts of smoke (and frequent pyrocumulus clouds) produced by the Caldor Fire.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/210817_goes17_trueColorRGB_Caldor_Fire_CA_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/GOES-17_ABI_RadC_true_color_2021229_163617Z.png\" width=\"642\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-17 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/08\/210817_goes17_trueColorRGB_Caldor_Fire_CA_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Caldor Fire (east of Sacramento, California) exhibited unprecedented growth on 17 August 2021 &#8212; increasing from 3600 acres burned in the morning to 30,000 acres that evening, with 0% containment &#8212; and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images from 1-minute GOES-17, 15 to 30-minute GOES-15, 15 to 30-minute GOES-14 and 5-minute GOES-16 (above) displayed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,40,43,74,80,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-14","category-goes-15","category-goes-16","category-goes-17","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42069","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=42069"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42091,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42069\/revisions\/42091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}