{"id":53832,"date":"2023-08-06T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=53832"},"modified":"2023-08-07T21:04:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T21:04:26","slug":"yukon-wildfire-produces-a-pyrocumulonimbus-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/53832","title":{"rendered":"Yukon wildfire produces a pyrocumulonimbus cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1722px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/08\/230806_goes18_dayLandCloudFireRGB_shortwaveInfrared_infraredWindow_visibleFirePower_Yukon_pyroCb_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/08\/yukon_4p-20230806_235020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1712\" height=\"828\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-18 Day Land Cloud Fire RGB (top left), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m, top right), \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) (bottom left) and \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) + Fire Power derived product (bottom right) [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/08\/230806_goes18_dayLandCloudFireRGB_shortwaveInfrared_infraredWindow_visibleFirePower_Yukon_pyroCb_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-18&nbsp;<em>(GOES-West)<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/quick_guides\/QuickGuide_GOESR_DayLandCloudFireRGB_final.pdf\"><strong>Day Land Cloud Fire RGB<\/strong><\/a>, Shortwave Infrared (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band07.pdf\"><strong>3.9 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>), \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>10.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) and &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images with an overlay of the Fire Power derived product \u2014 Fire Power is a component of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm <a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/training_sessions\/goes_r_fire_surface_properties\/video\/presentation_html5.html?lms=1\"><strong>FDCA<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed signatures associated with a wildfire (located about 20 miles WNW of Mayo, Yukon CYMA) that produced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43247-022-00566-8\"><strong>pyrocumulonimbus<\/strong><\/a> (pyroCb) cloud late in the day on 06 August 2023.<\/p>\n<p>At 2130 UTC, the wildfire exhibited a maximum 3.9 \u00b5m infrared brightness temperature of 106C, with a Fire Power value of 5257 MW <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 1541px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/08\/230806_2130utc_goes18_yukon_pyroCb_cusor_sample.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/08\/230806_2130utc_goes18_yukon_pyroCb_cusor_sample.png\" width=\"1531\" height=\"777\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cursor-sampled values of GOES-18 Day Land Cloud Fire RGB (top left), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m, top right), \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) (bottom left) and \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) + Fire Power derived product (bottom right) at 2130 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>The pyroCb cloud exhibited a cloud-top 10.3 \u00b5m infrared brightness temperature as cold as -48.15C at 2350 UTC <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1548px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/08\/230806_2350utc_yukon_pyroCb_cursor_sample.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2023\/08\/230806_2350utc_yukon_pyroCb_cursor_sample.png\" width=\"1538\" height=\"778\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cursor-sampled values of GOES-18 Day Land Cloud Fire RGB (top left), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m, top right), \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) (bottom left) and \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) + Fire Power derived product (bottom right) at 2350 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-18&nbsp;(GOES-West)&nbsp;Day Land Cloud Fire RGB, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m), \u201cClean\u201d Infrared Window (10.3 \u00b5m) and &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images with an overlay of the Fire Power derived product \u2014 Fire Power is a component of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;(above) showed signatures associated with a wildfire (located about 20 miles WNW [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":53835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,114,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arctic","category-fire-detection","category-goes-18","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53832","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=53832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53836,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53832\/revisions\/53836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}