On August 2nd, 2014 a pyroCb was detected in British Columbia by GOES-15 0.63 µm visible channel and 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel images (above). The pyroCb occurred around 02:45 UTC, located near 53º North and 125º West. The shortwave IR images (right panel) shows several hot spots (black to red pixels), but only the southern most hot spot […]
On the evening of 29 July 2014, a small pyroCb cloud was produced by a one of the ongoing fires in the Northwest Territories of Canada. GOES-15 0.63 µm visible channel and 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel images (above; click image to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file) showed that the pyroCb […]
åAfter several days of wildfire activity over parts of northern British Columbia (BC), northern Alberta (AB), and the Northwest Territories (NWT) of Canada (which produced a great deal of smoke, but no pyroCb activity), the conditions of the synoptic-scale environment became more favorable on 14 July 2014, allowing multiple pyroCb events (at least five?) to […]
Kudos to Mark Ruminski (NOAA/NESDIS Satellite Analysis Branch) for spotting this pyroCB event in far northern Alberta, Canada late in the day on 14 June 2014. McIDAS images of GOES-13 1-km resolution 0.63 µm visible channel (left panels) and GOES-13 4-km resolution 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel (right panels) data (above; click image to play […]
On 15 September 2013, a Pyrocumulonimbus (PyroCb) was detected by GOES-15 imagery in British Columbia, Canada in the center of the province. The animation above is imagery from GOES-15 (click animation to play); the panel on the left is the visible bandwidth and the panel of the right is shortwave infrared bandwidth highlighting the fire hot-spots […]
On 8 July 2013, a Pyrocumulonimbus (PyroCb) was detected by GOES-15 imagery in the Northwest Territory of Canada, just east of the Yukon Territory border and north of the British Columbia border. The above two images at 22:30 UTC show the PyroCb anvil in the visible wavelength, hot fire pixels in the Shortwave IR wavelength, and […]
