Thursday, August 14, 2014

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z August 15, 2014

Canada/US:
Wildfires across British Columbia, Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan
continue to produce moderately dense to dense smoke across a large section
of Canada and over the northern US.  Heavy smoke can be seen moving east
from the wildfires in British Columbia and moving into central Alberta,
northern/central Saskatchewan and into northern Manitoba.  Another area
of moderately dense smoke stretches across parts of Ontario southward
into the Upper Mississippi Valley, Great Lakes and Ohio Valley region.
Lighter smoke stretches across most of Canadian and US Plains and as far
east as the Northeast and Mid Atlantic and across all of the Ohio Valley
sections.  One last area of heavy smoke is seen moving southwestward
across sections of southern British Columbia and over Vancouver Island.

Labrador:
Wildfires in central Labrador are producing light to moderately dense
smoke moving north across the province and into the Labrador Sea.

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.