DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1800Z July 14, 2016
SMOKE: Intermountain West/Southwest: A small area of light density smoke plume could be seen emanating from fires primarily located in northern Arizona. The majority of the smoke plume is traveling east. Alaska/Northwest Canada: A light to moderate density smoke plume was seen southeast of Great Bear Lake moving southeast. Another area of light density remnant smoke were seen in Northwest Territories traveling south just east of Great Slave Lake. It is likely that the eastern portions of this area of smoke is a combination of smoke from Alaskan fires and fires seen in the western portions of the Northwest Territories. DUST: Western Caribbean Sea into the Western Gulf of Mexico: A broad area of optically thick Saharan dust continues to be seen this morning moving westward across the western half of the Caribbean Sea into the western/southern half of the Gulf of Mexico, including the entire Bay of Campeche. Central Plains/Great Lakes Region: An elongated area of light density Saharan dust could be seen extending from western Texas east-northeast into the Great Lakes region. Clouds obscured the observation of aerosols over the Midwest. -Kemal 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