{"id":59167,"date":"2024-05-12T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=59167"},"modified":"2024-05-13T18:32:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:32:05","slug":"direct-broadcast-views-of-high-aod-values-over-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/59167","title":{"rendered":"Direct Broadcast views of high AOD values over North America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>VIIRS data downloaded from the <a href=\"https:\/\/bin.ssec.wisc.edu\/pub\/eosdb\/j01\/viirs\/2024_05_12_133_1940\/images\/\">CIMSS Direct Broadcast antenna<\/a> (the link is evanescent) is used to create imagery that shows poor air quality over North America. The toggle above compares Aerosol Optical Depth and True-Color imagery derived using <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/cspp\/\">CSPP software<\/a>.  Two main smoke plumes are apparent, one stretching from northern Canada south and eastward to the Great Lakes, and a second over the southern Gulf of Mexico\/Yucatan Peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/TrueColor_AOD_N20_20240512_1940_toggle2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1156\" height=\"1209\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/TrueColor_AOD_N20_20240512_1940_toggle2.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59180\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) and True-Color imagery derived from VIIRS imagery, ca. 1940 UTC on 12 May 2024 (Click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Very large full-resolution images from the CIMSS Direct Broadcast site are available for <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/noaa20_viirs_true_color_20240512_194040_wgs84_fit.png\">true-color<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/noaa20_viirs_AOD550_20240512_194040_wgs84_fit.png\">AOD imagery<\/a>.  (Click the links)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>A GOES view of some of this smoke is available <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/59137\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIIRS data downloaded from the CIMSS Direct Broadcast antenna (the link is evanescent) is used to create imagery that shows poor air quality over North America. The toggle above compares Aerosol Optical Depth and True-Color imagery derived using CSPP software. Two main smoke plumes are apparent, one stretching from northern Canada south and eastward to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":59172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,78,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-quality","category-noaa-20","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59167","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59183,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59167\/revisions\/59183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}