Thursday, July 24, 2014

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1500Z July 24, 2014

SMOKE:
Canada/Northern US:
The wildfires burning in the Northwest Territories around Great Slave
and Great Bear Lakes are continuing to produce a large area of residual
smoke across central and eastern Canada.  Very dense residual smoke
is moving south across parts of the eastern Northwest Territories,
western and southern Nunavut and south across northeast Manitoba through
central and southern Ontario into the northern Great Lakes region and
southwest Quebec.  Light to moderately dense smoke extends as far east as
the Hudson Bay, as far west as northern Saskatchewan, northern Alberta,
southern Northwest Territories and northern/central British Columbia.

US
Wildfires burning in eastern Nevada and on the border of Utah are
currently producing light to moderately dense smoke northeast across
northern Utah, southeast Idaho and southwest Wyoming.  Residual smoke
from these wildfires and the Northwest Territories can be seen across
a large section of Wyoming, southern Montana, southern/central Plains
and east into the Upper and Middle Mississippi Valley.

J Kibler

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.