{"id":46963,"date":"2022-06-22T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=46963"},"modified":"2022-12-09T16:46:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:46:58","slug":"alaskan-wildfire-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/46963","title":{"rendered":"Alaskan wildfire smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/06\/220622_goes18_trueColorRGB_Gulf_of_Alaska_wildfire_smoke_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/06\/GOES-18_ABI_RadF_true_color_2022173_181020Z.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"600\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-18 True Color RGB images [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/06\/220622_goes18_trueColorRGB_Gulf_of_Alaska_wildfire_smoke_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>GOES-18 images in this blog post are preliminary and non-operational<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GOES-18 True Color RGB images created using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/geo2grid\/\"><strong>Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed smoke from Alaskan wildfires that had been transported southward over Kodiak Island and the northern Gulf of Alaska. Most of this smoke remained aloft &#8212; note that although Kodiak began reporting smoke late in the day, the surface visibility remained at 10 miles <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/06\/220622_PADQ_SFCMG.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/06\/220622_PADQ_SFCMG.GIF\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plot of surface report data from Kodiak, Alaska [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A composite of VIIRS True Color imagery <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the location of active fires over Alaska on that day.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/06\/220622_ak%20fires_viirs_truecolor.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/06\/220622_ak%20fires_viirs_truecolor.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Composite of VIIRS True Color imagery, with fire thermal signatures shown in red [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-18 images in this blog post are preliminary and non-operational GOES-18 True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed smoke from Alaskan wildfires that had been transported southward over Kodiak Island and the northern Gulf of Alaska. Most of this smoke remained aloft &#8212; note that although Kodiak began reporting smoke late in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":46974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,114,45,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geo2grid","category-goes-18","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46963","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=46963"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49092,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46963\/revisions\/49092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}