{"id":453,"date":"2007-08-12T23:55:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T23:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2007\/08\/12\/large-smoke-plumes-in-the-western-us\/"},"modified":"2007-08-14T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T13:55:00","slug":"large-smoke-plumes-in-the-western-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/453","title":{"rendered":"Large smoke plumes in the western US"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-12<\/a><\/p>\n

Ongoing fire activity in parts on Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming (NOAA HMS product<\/strong><\/a>) was producing very large smoke plumes late in the day on 12 August 2007<\/strong><\/a>. A QuickTime animation of GOES-12 visible imagery (above<\/strong>; 3.9 MB file; 1280 x 1024 screen resolution required) <\/em>shows several large and dense smoke plumes that grew quickly in size and moved rapidly northeastward during the afternoon hours. During the previous night-time hours, 1-km resolution MODIS 3.7\u00c2\u00b5m IR imagery (below, left)<\/strong><\/em> was able to detect many more fire “hot spots” (yellow to red enhancement)<\/em> than the corresponding 4-km resolution GOES-12 3.9\u00c2\u00b5m IR imagery (below, right)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\"MODIS<\/a><\/p>\n

Early afternoon MODIS true color imagery showed a closer view of the smoke plumes in the northwestern US (above)<\/strong><\/em>, while another fairly large smoke plume was also evident from a fire that was burning to the northwest of Los Angeles, California (below)<\/strong><\/em>. Thick smoke from northwestern US fire activity a day earlier had been transported as far eastward as Montana and North Dakota<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ongoing fire activity in parts on Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming (NOAA HMS product) was producing very large smoke plumes late in the day on 12 August 2007. A QuickTime animation of GOES-12 visible imagery (above; 3.9 MB file; 1280 x 1024 screen resolution required) shows several large and dense smoke plumes that grew quickly in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-12","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","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=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}