Wednesday, April 11, 2012

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z April 12, 2012

Southeast US/Mid-Atlantic Coast:
The County Line wildfire in Columbia County, FL is primarily responsible
for an extensive area of detached thin density smoke that covers Atlantic
waters east of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Moderate and heavy
smoke remains confined to NE Florida and the oceanic area to the east.

Central and Northern Plains:
Numerous small smoke producing agricultural burns in the central and
northern plains have collectively created a large area of light density
remnant smoke over the eastern Dakotas, Nebraska, and Kansas and over
western Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri.

From this morning-
The Gulf of Mexico appears a bit hazy which might be due to some remnant
smoke still lingering across the northern half of the gulf, but no real
well-defined boundaries can be noted to be able to analyze.
Update-
The same unknown aerosol was observed this evening and is deemed to
contain only a small smoke aerosol contribution, if any.

Ramirez


THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT
AREAS SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME
DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE
FIRE..TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST
ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF
THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO
THE SOURCE FIRE 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
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT 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.