DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST/SO2 OBSERVED IN SATELLITE
IMAGERY
Northern Plains/South Central Canada An area of thin to moderately dense remnant smoke is moving ENE across the northern US/southern Canada region. The area of moderately dense smoke is located across SE Saskatchewan, extreme E Montana and W and C North Dakota. The thin smoke extends over E Montana, C and W Saskatchewan and SE Alberta. Alaska/Yukon and Northwest Territories: A long, but thin area of SO2 is seen moving N across central/northern Alaska and northern Yukon/Northwest Territories (extending just north of Great Bear Lake). Another area of SO2 is located in SW Alaska. This area is also moving N across the state. The SO2 is coming from the volcano Sarychev Peak located on the Kuril Islands in the Western Pacific. The current OMI SO2 composite of the northern hemisphere showed the S02 plume very well and can be viewed at http://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/OMI/OMISO2/index.html Kibler More information on additional areas of smoke associated with these fires and others can be found at the locations listed below. 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.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/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