Tuesday, June 1, 2010

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z June 2, 2010

Alaska/Northern Canada:
Moderately dense to extremely dense smoke from numerous wildfires over
Alaska and the Yukon Territory stretched from central and northern
Alaska and the northern Yukon Territory into the Northwest Territories
and western Nunavut.  Moderate smoke has begun moving into northern
Saskatchewan and Manitoba provinces.  Light smoke extends over Alberta
and into southern Manitoba provinces.

Western Gulf of Mexico/Bay of Campeche:
Light residual smoke from fires in central America stretched northward
from the Bay of Campeche into the western Gulf of Mexico.

Southeastern New England and Quebec:
While cloud cover did hinder smoke detection over much of New England,
smoke continued to be produced by the Quebec fires and just extended
into the northern New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York borders.

Liddick

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.