Wednesday, June 30, 2010

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0300Z July 01, 2010

Currently:

Kansas/Nebraska:
Numerous fires most likely agriculturally based are producing light
to moderately dense smoke moving west to northwest across parts of
the Central Plains.  Also, smoke from the fires in central Canada is
beginning to wrap around and move into northern Kansas and Nebraska.

Southern California/Northeast Baja:
Numerous agricultural fires burning across the region are producing
light smoke moving northeast into Arizona.

Earlier Today:

Alaska/northern Yukon/Northwest
Territories/Nunavut/Manitoba/Ontario/Quebec/Great Lakes states/Northeast
US:

A large an expansive smoke plume was analyzed from northern Alaska,
northern Yukon, northern Northwest Territories through Nunavut and covered
a large portion of Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait.  The plume then extended
through much of eastern Manitoba and Ontario and then extended into the
Great Lakes/Midwest and Northeast states.  The origins of the smoke plume
are the large fires over the last week over central Canada and also the
current wildfires over portions of central Alaska.  The plume contained
mostly low to moderate density smoke with a few areas of high density
smoke over the northern portions of Hudson Bay and a larger area over
the northern portions of the Northwest Territories and the Beaufort Sea.

J Kibler

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.