{"id":7836,"date":"2011-04-15T23:59:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T23:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=7836"},"modified":"2011-04-19T19:27:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T19:27:17","slug":"wildfires-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/7836","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

Large wildfires continued to burn out of control across much of Texas on 15 April 2010<\/a><\/strong>. McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> showed the growth of a number of very long smoke plumes which were fanned out by strong northerly and northwesterly winds in the wake of a cold frontal passage. The GOES-13 satellite had been placed into Rapid Scan Operations (RSO), providing images as frequently as every 5-10 minutes.<\/p>\n

MODIS true color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images from the SSEC MODIS Today<\/a><\/strong> site (below; displayed using Google Earth<\/em><\/strong>) also showed that a significant dust plume aloft was spreading out southeastward across the region. The blowing dust exhibited a distinct light brown color, in contrast to the light gray color of the smoke plumes.<\/p>\n

\"MODIS<\/a>

MODIS true color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images (displayed using Google Earth)<\/p><\/div>\n

AWIPS images of POES AVHRR 3.7 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR and 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR window data from the previous evening (below)<\/em><\/strong> showed the very large size of some of the fire “hot spots” (black to red to yellow color enhancement on the shortwave IR image)<\/em> — as well as the fact that some of the fires were so hot that they even exhibited a dark black hot spot signature of the 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR window channel image.<\/p>\n

\"POES<\/a>

POES AVHRR 3.7 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR + 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR window images<\/p><\/div>\n

CIMSS participation in GOES-R Proving Ground<\/strong><\/a> activities includes making a variety of POES AVHRR<\/strong><\/a> images and products available for National Weather Service offices to add to their local AWIPS workstations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Large wildfires continued to burn out of control across much of Texas on 15 April 2010. McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the growth of a number of very long smoke plumes which were fanned out by strong northerly and northwesterly winds in the wake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,6,11,34,32,12,26,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avhrr","category-fire-detection","category-goes-13","category-goes-r","category-google-earth","category-modis","category-poes","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836","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=7836"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7839,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions\/7839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}