Wednesday, May 21 2014

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1630Z May 21, 2014

Southern Canada:
An area of very light remnant smoke from agricultural burns over the
last few days was detected this morning extending over southeastern
Saskatchewan. Little movement has been noted with the smoke.

Arizona/Utah:
A large plume of light to moderate smoke was seen extending from
a wildfire located in northern Arizona near Flagstaff and Oak Creek
Canyon. The light density smoke is seen ranging into northeast Utah. The
moderate density smoke has remained confined to slightly north of the
wildfire.

Alaska:
A smoke plume emitted from the wildfires raging on the Kenai peninsula
near Soldotna in southern Alaska has extended south into the northern
Gulf of Alaska, just east of Kodiak Island. The smoke has been wrapped
into the low pressure system near the coastline.

A ribbon of very high level, thin smoke generated from pyro convection
in eastern Siberia several days ago was seen this morning drifting over
western Alaska oriented northwest-southeast.

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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.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/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.