DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THRU 1600Z August 01, 2005
Alaska: Significant smoke is confined to western Alaska mainly west of a line from King Salmon to Ruby to Kobuk to Cape Lisburne. The fires producing the most smoke this morning are between Norton Sound and Galena. Additional smoke from the Alaska fires was seen over the northern Gulf of Alaska. Northwest Canada: An area of smoke was seen from near the Yukon/Northwest Territory border west of Great Bear Lake extending to the east-southeast to the eastern end of Great Slave Lake. The smoke was approximately 275 km wide. Ruminski