Friday June 1, 2012

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z June 2, 2012

Canada:
A large wildfire located to the west of Lake Athabasca in northeast
Alberta is producing a moderately dense to very dense smoke
plume. Detached smoke is observed moving east over all of northern
Saskatchewan and into the far western parts of Manitoba. Remnant smoke
is possibly more expansive than described but heavy cloud cover is
preventing the observation of the true smoke boundaries.

Southwestern US:
Remnant smoke from the Whitewater-Baldy wildfire was visible on satellite
imagery this evening, with the heaviest smoke located to the south of
the fire.  Detached smoke covers much of southern and central New Mexico,
southern Arizona, and northern Sonora/Baja California in Mexico.

Mexico:
Numerous fires in the states of Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, and Durango
are producing a broad area of remnant light density smoke with locally
dense plumes moving west that reach as far west as the Baja Peninsula.

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.