DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0400Z March 1, 2014

Southeast US:
Several agricultural fires in southern Florida had produced areas of
thin smoke that was getting pulled eastward off the coast. Another area
of aerosol could be seen off the South Carolina/Georgia coasts moving
southward. It is not known what this aerosol is, though there is a chance
that it could be composed of some smoke from southeast US ag fires.

Texas: An area of optically thick blowing dust could be seen progressing
eastward across northwest and north central Texas this evening from about
1900Z until sunset at about 0030Z. This dust was observed earlier today
as it was kicked up over New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle.

Northern Gulf of Mexico:
Two separate plumes of unknown aerosols continued to be observed from
morning to evening over the northeast Gulf of Mexico. The origins of
these aerosol plume are unknown based on satellite imagery. One was
moving slowly west from Florida's Apalachicola Bay and the other had
started to move onshore across the southernmost portions of Mississippi
and Alabama. In addition, a thin plume of unknown aerosol also extended
northward from Mexico and across the western Gulf.

California:
Areas of aerosol could be seen moving into southern and central California
this evening as a very strong upper level low moves across the eastern
Pacific towards the coast. Aerosol models indicate that this could
contain some Asian smoke and a large quantity of Asian dust, along with
other aerosols.

Sheffler

THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS
OF 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.