DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0045Z July 6, 2009
Alaska/NW Canada: Large amounts of smoke from large fires across AK and the Yukon territory cover a large portion of the state and southern and western portions of the territory. Please see links below for further details. Great Lakes: Pockets of undetermined aerosols can be seen across much of IL, N IN, N OH, LP of MI and Lake Erie, this morning would have suspected that it was SO2...however, most recent passes of OMI instrument do not even hint at SO2 at this location, so it may be smoke from AK from much earlier in the week, that has been untraceable due to cloudy conditions over the past few days across central Canada. Least likely is general hazy/ozone/pollution conditions...though is not fully ruled out. Large fires in N CA, Central CA Sierras, S CA and CA/AZ boarder along with S TX are all attached to their source regions at this time...and can be seen at the links below. No other large scale sand/dust/smoke can be detected due to general cloudiness across a large portion of AK, Canada and the Lower 48 US. Gallina More information on the areas of smoke described above as well as 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