{"id":9485,"date":"2012-01-02T23:59:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T23:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=9485"},"modified":"2012-01-05T16:24:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T16:24:36","slug":"wildfires-burning-in-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/9485","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires burning in Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"GOES-12<\/a>

GOES-12 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

As a result of prolonged drought and a mid-summer heat wave across southern Chile, a number of wildfires were burning in parts of the region on 01 January<\/strong> – 02 January 2012<\/strong> (surface analysis<\/a>)<\/strong>. GOES-12 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR images (above; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> showed a number of fire “hot spots” (yellow to red color enhancement)<\/em> between Concepcion (station identifier SCIE)<\/em> and Chillan (station identifier SCCH)<\/em> from the late afternoon on 01 January until the early morning hours on 02 January.<\/p>\n

During the subsequent daytime hours, GOES-12 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (below; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> revealed a long hazy smoke plume that was drifting northwestward out over the adjacent Pacific Ocean. As daytime heating increased, cumulus clouds with a few thunderstorms could also be seen developing farther inland over the higher terrain of the Andes Mountains.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-12<\/a>

GOES-12 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

Rawinsonde data from Santo Domingo (station identifier SCSN<\/a>)<\/strong> at 12 UTC indicated that southeasterly winds existed near the top of the deep temperature inversion, between 741 hPa (2.6 km)<\/em> and 700 hPa (3.1 km)<\/em> — so this is likely the approximate altitude of the smoke plume seen drifting toward the northwest on the GOES-12 visible satellite imagery.<\/p>\n

\"Santo<\/a>

Santo Domingo, Chile rawinsonde data plot<\/p><\/div>\n

A high-resolution MODIS true color image of the fire smoke plume can be seen on the NASA Earth Observatory<\/strong><\/a> site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a result of prolonged drought and a mid-summer heat wave across southern Chile, a number of wildfires were burning in parts of the region on 01 January – 02 January 2012 (surface analysis). GOES-12 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR images (above; click image to play animation) showed a number of fire “hot spots” (yellow to […]<\/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":[6,19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-12","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9485","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=9485"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9513,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9485\/revisions\/9513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}