{"id":8346,"date":"2011-06-17T23:59:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T23:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=8346"},"modified":"2011-06-20T17:40:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T17:40:51","slug":"smoke-dissipation-via-downdrafts-from-collapsing-thunderstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/8346","title":{"rendered":"Smoke dissipation via downdrafts from a collapsing thunderstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"POES<\/a>

POES AVHRR 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images<\/p><\/div>\n

AWIPS images of POES AVHRR 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR data (above)<\/em><\/strong> showed a thunderstorm that was moving off the Georgia\/Florida coast during the pre-dawn hours on 17 June 2011<\/a><\/strong>. Rapidly-warming cloud top IR brightness temperatures indicated that this thunderstorm was quickly dying.<\/p>\n

A POES AVHRR false color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image at 12:36 UTC (below)<\/em><\/strong> depicted a well-defined outflow boundary resulting from the downdrafts of the collapsing thunderstorm — and to the east of the storm, the hazy signature of residual smoke from wildfires that had been burning across the region during previous days.<\/p>\n

\"POES<\/a>

POES AVHRR false color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image<\/p><\/div>\n

McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (below)<\/em><\/strong> showed that a great deal of the smoke east of the storm was apparently dissipated by cleaner downdraft air from the dying convection.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images<\/p><\/div>\n

This clearing of the smoke was also apparent on a MODIS true color image from the SSEC MODIS Today<\/a><\/strong> site (below)<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"MODIS<\/a>

MODIS true color image<\/p><\/div>\n

For additional images and information, see the US Air Quality “Smog Blog”<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AWIPS images of POES AVHRR 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR data (above) showed a thunderstorm that was moving off the Georgia\/Florida coast during the pre-dawn hours on 17 June 2011. Rapidly-warming cloud top IR brightness temperatures indicated that this thunderstorm was quickly dying. A POES AVHRR false color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image at 12:36 UTC (below) depicted a […]<\/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":[7,22,11,12,26,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-quality","category-avhrr","category-goes-13","category-modis","category-poes","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346","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=8346"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8350,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346\/revisions\/8350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}