DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z June 10, 2010
Alaska/Northwestern Canada: Areas of dense smoke continue to be associated with wildfires in the northern Yukon Territory and in eastern Alaska. This smoke is generally drifting to the north. A broader area of light to moderately dense smoke covered much of central, north central and northeast Alaska and northern Yukon and a portion of the northwest Northwest Territory. A fire in northwest Alaska in the Noatak National Preserve had produced a moderately dense smoke plume that was drifting to the north toward the Arctic Coast. Central Canada: An elongated area of light smoke with patches of embedded moderately dense smoke stretched from near the southern shore of Great Bear Lake across Great Slave Lake and eastern Lake Athabasca reaching to Reindeer Lake, covering much of northern Saskatchewan. The smoke was from fires to the southeast of Great Slave Lake in southern Northwest Territory and fires to the west of Reindeer Lake in northeast Saskatchewan. Eastern Canada: A swath of thin smoke likely leftover from the Canadian and Alaskan fires was visible early this morning in an arc extending from Labrador Sea across much of central and western Labrador, far eastern Quebec into the Gulf of St Lawrence and just clipping the western end of the Island of Newfoundland before reaching into the Atlantic. A separate swath of light smoke was seen extending southeast from central Nova Scotia into the Atlantic. This smoke was likely remnant smoke from the active fires in central Quebec east of James Bay. Southeast US: An area of aerosol was seen extending to the east off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina. The composition of this aerosol is not known with certainty but it is likely a mix of remnant smoke from fires across the Southeast and possibly Central America and pollution. Ruminski 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