Thursday, June 18, 2009

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST/SO2 OBSERVED IN SATELLITE
IMAGERY
THROUGH 0215Z June 19, 2009

Northern Plains/South Central Canada
An area of thin to moderately dense remnant smoke is moving ENE across
the northern US/southern Canada region.  The area of moderately dense
smoke is located across SE Saskatchewan, extreme E Montana and W and C
North Dakota.  The thin smoke extends over E Montana, C and W Saskatchewan
and SE Alberta.

Alaska/Yukon and Northwest Territories:
A long, but thin area of SO2 is seen moving N across central/northern
Alaska and northern Yukon/Northwest Territories (extending just north
of Great Bear Lake).  Another area of SO2 is located in SW Alaska.
This area is also moving N across the  state.  The SO2 is coming
from the volcano Sarychev Peak located on the Kuril Islands in the
Western Pacific. The current OMI SO2 composite of the northern
hemisphere showed the S02 plume very well and can be viewed at
http://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/OMI/OMISO2/index.html

Kibler

More information on additional areas of smoke associated with these
fires and others can be found at the locations listed below.

THE FORMAT OF THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS BEING MODIFIED. IT WILL NO LONGER
DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS PLUMES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES. THESE
PLUMES ARE DEPICTED IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE:

JPEG:   http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/hms.html
GIS:    http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm
KML:    http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html

THIS TEXT PRODUCT WILL CONTINUE TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE
WHICH HAVE BECOME DETACHED FROM AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE
SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. IT WILL ALSO
STILL INCLUDE DESCRIPTIONS OF BLOWING DUST.

ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT
PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov