DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1900Z August 13, 2019

SMOKE:
Gulf of Alaska/Canada/New England...
A large area of light density smoke was observed over northern Canada
and offshore over the Gulf of Alaska this morning. The smoke may have
originated from the significant wildfires burning recently in Siberia
that have now mixed with smoke from fires located in southern Alaska,
northwestern British Columbia and northern Alberta. The smoke spread
long distance along with the upper level flow to the east across the
Yukon, the southern and eastern parts of the Northwest Territories,
western and southern Nunavut, southeastern Saskatchewan, Manitoba,
portions of Ontario, then off to the New England. Cloud cover over Alaska
and portions of Canada obscured the full extent of the smoke from the
satellite imagery.

Northern Arizona/Eastern-Central California...
Moderate to thick density smoke was seen from several wildfires burning in
northern Arizona and eastern-central California. The smoke was generally
spreading to the northeast.

Bay of Campeche...
A plume associated with gas flaring activity off of oil rigs in the Bay
of Campeche was seen spreading to the west and northwest over the Bay
of Campeche.

YL


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/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
GIS:    ftp://satpsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/HMS/GIS/
KML:    http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/fire.kml (fire)
        http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/smoke.kml (smoke)

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.