{"id":46993,"date":"2022-06-24T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=46993"},"modified":"2022-10-19T01:18:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T01:18:06","slug":"pyrocumulonimbus-cloud-in-canadas-northwest-territories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/46993","title":{"rendered":"Pyrocumulonimbus cloud in Canada&#8217;s Northwest Territories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/06\/220624_goes18_visibe_shortwaveInfrared_infraredWindow_Great_Slave_Lake_NWT_pyroCb_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/06\/G18_VIS_SWIR_IR_NWT_PYROCB2_24JUN2022_B2713_2022175_210020_0003PANELS_FRAME0000015.GIF\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-18 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, top), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m, center) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m, bottom) images, which include hourly plots of surface reports [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/06\/220624_goes18_visibe_shortwaveInfrared_infraredWindow_Great_Slave_Lake_NWT_pyroCb_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>GOES-18\u00a0 images in this blog post are preliminary and non-operational<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GOES-18 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the formation of a small <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43247-022-00566-8\"><strong>pyrocumulonimbus<\/strong><\/a> (pyroCb) cloud &#8212; generated by a wildfire that was burning near the northwest coast of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada &#8212; on 24 June 2022. The pyroCB cloud then drifted southeastward across the lake, toward Resolute Bay (CYFR). Incidentally, this was Canada&#8217;s first documented pyroCb of the 2022 wildfire season.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/06\/220624_1930utc_suomiNPP_viirs_visible_shortwaveInfrared_infraredWindow_zoom_Great_Slave_Lake_NWT_pyroCB_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/06\/220624_1930utc_suomiNPP_viirs_visible_shortwaveInfrared_infraredWindow_zoom_Great_Slave_Lake_NWT_pyroCB_anim.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi-NPP VIIRS Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Shortwave Infrared (3.74 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images valid at 1930 UTC, with plots of surface reports [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Suomi-NPP VIIRS Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Shortwave Infrared (3.74 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images valid at 1930 UTC <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> showed the pyroCb shortly after it formed (when it exhibited a minimum cloud-top 11.45 \u00b5m infrared brightness temperature of -49C, lighter shades of red) &#8212; and Suomi-NPP VIIRS images valid at 1930 UTC <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> displayed the pyroCb over Great Slave Lake at 2110 UTC (when it exhibited a minimum cloud-top 11.45 \u00b5m infrared brightness temperature of -54C, darker shades of violet).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/06\/220624_2110utc_suomiNPP_viirs_visible_shortwaveInfrared_infraredWindow_zoom_Great_Slave_Lake_NWT_pyroCB_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/06\/220624_2110utc_suomiNPP_viirs_visible_shortwaveInfrared_infraredWindow_zoom_Great_Slave_Lake_NWT_pyroCB_anim.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi-NPP VIIRS Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Shortwave Infrared (3.74 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images valid at 2110 UTC, with plots of surface reports [click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-18\u00a0 images in this blog post are preliminary and non-operational GOES-18 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) and \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.35 \u00b5m) images (above) showed the formation of a small pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud &#8212; generated by a wildfire that was burning near the northwest coast of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":46995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,114,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-18","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46993","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=46993"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48420,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46993\/revisions\/48420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}