Friday, July 6, 2012

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z July 7, 2012

US:
Remnant smoke from large wildfires burning mainly in portions of Montana,
Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah over the past several days/weeks can be seen
in visible imagery covering a large part of the US from the Rockies to
the Eastern Great Lakes, the mid Atlantic, and the Southeast. The smoke
is primarily light density but a moderate density area can be seen in
and around the Ohio River Valley.

Western US/Southwestern Canada:
A thin band of light to moderately dense remnant smoke stretches from
the eastern Pacific ocean over the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
Montana in the US and southern Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada. This
smoke is believed to be from fires burning in Siberia.

Northwestern Canada:
A North-South oriented band of remnant light density smoke is observed
along the Yukon-Northwest Territories border in western Canada. The smoke
continues to stretch south into British Columbia before being swept east
into Alberta.  This smoke was also believed to be from the fires burning
in Siberia.

Salemi/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.