Saturday, August 27, 2016

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0130Z August 28, 2016

SMOKE:
California:
An area of light density remnant smoke originating from fires in
southern California was seen across California slowly moving east
with optically thicker smoke in Central Valley banked along the Sierra
Nevada mountains. Several fires are still emitting light to moderate
density smoke in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains and southwestern
California coast.

Pacific Northwest/Intermountain West:
Two significant light to heavy density smoke plumes were seen traveling
east in east-central Oregon and west-central Idaho. Multiple light to
moderate density smoke plumes were seen in-between cloud cover traveling
east in the northern portions of the Intermountain West.

DUST:
Caribbean:
African dust moving westward across the tropical Atlantic/eastern
Caribbean Sea can be seen in satellite imagery stretching from the
Leeward Islands to Jamaica, mostly south of Hispaniola.

-Cronin

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.