{"id":45942,"date":"2022-04-26T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=45942"},"modified":"2022-04-29T02:43:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T02:43:43","slug":"prescribed-burns-in-the-flint-hills-of-eastern-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/45942","title":{"rendered":"Prescribed burns in the Flint Hills of Eastern Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/04\/220426_goes16_shortwaveInfrared_KS_fires_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/04\/ks_swir-20220426_215955.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/04\/220426_goes16_shortwaveInfrared_KS_fires_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the thermal signatures of numerous prescribed burns across the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20220426.html\"><strong>26 April 2022<\/strong><\/a>. Although the majority of the fires burned only briefly, some exhibited very rapid increases in their 3.9 \u00b5m infrared brightness temperature &#8212; for example, the hottest fire went from 30<sup>o<\/sup>C to 98<sup>o<\/sup>C in 20 minutes, and another fire went from 12<sup>o<\/sup>C to 89<sup>o<\/sup>C in just 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Such prescribed burns occur every Spring in this region &#8212; other examples include <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/32776\"><strong>April 2019<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/23732\"><strong>April 2010<\/strong><\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images (above) showed the thermal signatures of numerous prescribed burns across the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas on 26 April 2022. Although the majority of the fires burned only briefly, some exhibited very rapid increases in their 3.9 \u00b5m infrared brightness temperature &#8212; for example, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":45992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-16"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45942","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=45942"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45993,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45942\/revisions\/45993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}