{"id":8828,"date":"2011-09-06T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=8828"},"modified":"2011-09-06T19:30:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T19:30:04","slug":"fires-across-eastern-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/8828","title":{"rendered":"Fires across eastern Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/~scottb\/110904_g13_swir_vis_tx_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-13 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel + 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/~scottb\/110904_G13_SWIR_VIS_TX_32.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-13 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel + 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel + 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>McIDAS images of GOES-13 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR and 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the fire hot spot <em>(dark black pixels)<\/em> and large smoke plume associated with the Bastrop County fire complex in eastern Texas on <a title=\"04 September 2011 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20110904.html\"><strong>04 September 2011<\/strong><\/a>. This fire went on to set a record for the highest number of homes damaged (over 500) by a single fire in Texas history.<\/p>\n<p>A comparison of AWIPS images of 1-km resolution POES AVHRR 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 3.74 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel data <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed finer detail in the location of the individual fire hot spots <em>(black to red to yellow color enhancement)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/~scottb\/110904_poes_avhrr_vis_swir_tx_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"POES AVHRR 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel + 3.74 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/~scottb\/110904_poes_avhrr_vis_swir_tx_anim.gif\" alt=\"POES AVHRR 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel + 3.74 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel images\" width=\"480\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">POES AVHRR 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel + 3.74 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On the following day (<a title=\"05 September 2011 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20110905.html\"><strong>05 September<\/strong><\/a>), the number of fires quickly grew to over 60 &#8212; a number of very large smoke plumes could be seen growing on GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images <em><strong>(below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em>. The thick smoke was causing air quality problems at a number of locations. Strong northerly winds around the circulation of the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee helped to create an environment that allowed many of the fires to quickly burn out of control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/~scottb\/110905_g13_vis_tx_fires_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/~scottb\/110905_G13_VIS_TX_FIRES_50.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The location of many of the larger fire hot spots <em>(black to yellow to red color enhancement)<\/em> could be seen on a comparison of GOES-15 and GOES-13 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR images <em><strong>(below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/~scottb\/110905-06-g15_g13_swir_tx_fires_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-15 and GOES-13 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/~scottb\/110905-06_G15_G13_SWIR_TX_FIRES_25.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-15 and GOES-13 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 and GOES-13 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIDAS images of GOES-13 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR and 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the fire hot spot (dark black pixels) and large smoke plume associated with the Bastrop County fire complex in eastern Texas on 04 September 2011. This fire went on to set a record for [&hellip;]<\/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":[7,22,6,11,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-quality","category-avhrr","category-fire-detection","category-goes-13","category-goes-15"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828","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=8828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8831,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions\/8831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}