Goes West Satellite Fires

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Goes west satellite fires.

19 2020 noaa s goes west satellite captured the above geocolor image loop of massive wildfire smoke plumes billowing from california and areas of the rocky mountains. West coast alaska central alaska southeastern alaska northern pacific ocean hawaii tropical pacific ocean southern pacific ocean goes east. During post launch testing of the goes 17 abi instrument an issue with the instrument s cooling system was discovered. The flames have as of 9 a m.

Imagery available about 25 minutes later. The loop heat pipe lhp subsystem which transfers heat from the abi electronics to the radiator is not operating at its designed capacity. Goes west imagery 30 minutes. During the early morning hours of august 13 2020 noaa s goes west satellite viewed the rapid growth of the lake hughes fire in angeles national forest.

To the north a mid latitude cyclone spins over the gulf of alaska while hurricane genevieve continues its path toward baja california. Real time satellite fire monitoring goes west. Extreme eastern pacific imagery is also available on the west atlantic imagery. Pdt on august 14 engulfed over 17 square miles and are at 12 containment the combination of geocolor the fire temperature product and band 2 which has the finest resolution of all of goes r satellites.

Goes 17 goes west is monitoring a number of fires in california. In this imagery from august 19 2020 which combines geocolor imagery with the fire temperature data product both the fires hotspots and smoke plumes are visible.