DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0245Z July 10, 2010

Eastern US:
A large area of thick aerosol continues to cover much of the Southeast,
and Gulf States ahead of a front draped across Pennsylvania, Tennessee
and into Arkansas. Smoke contribution to this area of aerosol is not
believed to be significant.

Gulf of Mexico:
Light area of what is likely Saharan dust and other aerosols continues
to remain over the western gulf, eastern Texas and Louisiana.

Central Canada:
Clouds continued to obscure fires in northern Saskatchewan throughout
the day making smoke detection impossible although light smoke continued
to emanate from the eastern edge of the clouds all day suggesting they
were producing some smoke.  Remnant moderate to dense smoke from the
fires yesterday extends over central Manitoba and into southern Quebec
province and over the northern portions of Lake Superior and the upper
peninsula of Michigan.

British Columbia:
Moderately dense smoke from a fire in northern British Columbia remained
closely anchored near the fire itself throughout the day.

Alaska:
Area of light smoke seen across much of northern Alaska into Northern
Nunavut Province from fires in northwest Alaska which are still emitting
higher concentrations of smoke this morning.  Fires in the center part
of the state are producing more dense plumes which are generally moving
north and northwest.


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THE FORMAT OF THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS BEING MODIFIED. IT WILL NO LONGER
DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS PLUMES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES. THESE
PLUMES ARE DEPICTED IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE:

JPEG:   http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/land/hms.html
GIS:    http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm
KML:    http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html

THIS TEXT PRODUCT WILL CONTINUE TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE
WHICH HAVE BECOME DETACHED FROM AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE
SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. IT WILL ALSO
STILL INCLUDE DESCRIPTIONS OF BLOWING DUST.

ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT
PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov

Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.