DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1700Z July 10, 2013
Alaska/Canada/North US: A thin ribbon of light density remnant smoke stretching north to south is observed in central Alaska and the northern Gulf of Alaska. A very broad plume of detached moderate to very dense smoke extends from Yukon Territory southeast across Northwest Territory, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba and then into the north central US before it curves east over the Ohio River Valley and then into New England and out over the western Atlantic. This very expansive area of smoke originated from large smoke producing wildfires in nearly all Canadian Provinces, but mainly in the vicinity of Lake Athabasca and Quebec. Western US: A large area of light smoke is observed primarily in the inter-mountain west from wildfires in Nevada, but partially stretches over the central plains as far east as Nebraska and Missouri Ramirez THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE..TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE 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 ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov