{"id":46871,"date":"2022-06-14T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=46871"},"modified":"2022-10-19T01:20:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T01:20:16","slug":"2-pyrocumulonimbus-clouds-produced-by-the-calf-canyon-hermits-peak-fire-in-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/46871","title":{"rendered":"2 pyrocumulonimbus clouds produced by the Calf Canyon\/Hermit’s Peak Fire in New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GOES-17 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, top left), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m, top right), Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m, bottom left) and Cloud Top Temperature derived product (bottom right) [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West)<\/em>\u00a0\u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and\u00a0Cloud Top Temperature<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0derived product images\u00a0(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed that the Calf Canyon Fire<\/strong><\/a>\/Hermits Peak Fire<\/strong><\/a> in northeastern New Mexico produced a pair of pyrocumulonimbus<\/strong><\/a> (pyroCb) clouds on\u00a014 June 2022<\/strong><\/a>. Extreme fire behavior was aided by surface wind gusts as high as 60 mph and very dry air within the boundary layer. Ths large fire burned very hot, with 3.9 \u00b5m Shortwave Infrared brightness temperatures reaching 138.71\u00baC \u2014 the saturation temperature of <\/span>ABI<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a> Band 7 detectors — for extended periods of time.<\/span> Coldest 10.35 \u00b5m cloud-top brightness temperatures exhibited by the pyroCb cloud were around -46\u00baC (lighter blue enhancement), with the Cloud Top Temperature product showing values as cold as -61\u00baC (gren pixels). This was the 4th day of pyroCb production by this fire — following previous events on 14 May<\/strong><\/a>, 10 May<\/strong><\/a> and 01 May<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a toggle between Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color RGB and False Color RGB images valid at 2051 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em>, the True Color image highlighted the smoke plume while the False Color image showed the active fires (brighter shades of pink) along with the size of the burn scar (shades of brown).<\/p>\n

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Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color RGB and False Color RGB images valid at 2051 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West)\u00a0\u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m), \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) and\u00a0Cloud Top Temperature\u00a0derived product images\u00a0(above) showed that the Calf Canyon Fire\/Hermits Peak Fire in northeastern New Mexico produced a pair of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds on\u00a014 June 2022. Extreme fire behavior was aided by surface wind gusts as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":46874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,80,45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-17","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46871","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=46871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48421,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46871\/revisions\/48421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}