![](\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/07\/220721_goes17_visible_shortwaveInfrared_firePower_fireTemperature_Moose_Fire_ID_anim.gif\")
<\/a>GOES-17 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m, top left), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m, top right), Fire Power (bottom left) and Fire Temperature (bottom right) images [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West)<\/em> \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m), Fire Power and Fire Temperature images (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed an unusual early-morning flareup of the Moose Fire<\/strong><\/a> in Idaho on 21 July 2022<\/strong><\/a>. The Fire Temperature and Fire Power derived products are components of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n During this brief flareup, the peak values of Shortwave Infrared, Fire Power and Fire Temperature were a rather modest 83.17\u00baC, 886.98 MW and 845.37 K respectively — however, the fire was hot enough to produce a notable smoke plume that then drifted southeastward. This flareup apparently occurred during a local increase in terrain-driven wind speeds, around the time that the nocturnal temperature inversion was eroding (which aided in the rapid vertical ventilation of fresh smoke).<\/p>\n GOES-17 True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> (below)<\/strong><\/em> provided a clearer view of the smoke plume as it curled southeastward — along with the ventilation of smoke from nearby valleys that had settled into lower elevations beneath the nocturnal temperature inversion.<\/p>\n