Goes West Satellite Smoke

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Goes west satellite smoke. Edt on july 9 2014 goes west captured this image of the brownish colored haze created by forest fires in canada s northwest territories that. Satellite images show massive amounts of smoke engulfing the west coast of the u s. Goes west imagery 30 minutes. Fire smoke snow ice surface hydrology vegetation.

The fire and smoke map shows fine particulate 2 5 micron pm 2 5 pollution data obtained from air quality monitors and sensors information is shown on both the epa s air quality index scale using the nowcast aqi algorithm and also as hourly pm 2 5 concentration values. In this imagery from august 19 2020 which combines geocolor imagery with the fire temperature data product both the fires hotspots and smoke plumes are visible. Goes active fire detection data. 19 2020 noaa s goes west satellite captured the above geocolor image loop of massive wildfire smoke plumes billowing from california and areas of the rocky mountains.

As the southwestern united states endures a record heat wave the. Imagery available about 25 minutes later. To the north a mid latitude cyclone spins over the gulf of alaska while hurricane genevieve continues its path toward baja california. Noaa s geostationary operational environmental satellite or goes west satellite spotted smoke over the u s.

Geocolor is a multispectral product composed of true color using a simulated green component during the daytime and an infrared product that uses bands 7 and 13 at night. Conus imaging sector and 10min observations over the entire western hemisphere full disk imaging sector with two satellites positioned at 75 2 o w goes 16 launched on november 2016 and 137 2 o w goes 17 launched on march 2018. And extending hundreds of miles over the pacific ocean. During the day the imagery looks approximately as it would appear when viewed with human eyes from space.

Extreme eastern pacific imagery is also available on the west atlantic imagery. Goes 17 goes west is monitoring a number of fires in california. Real time satellite fire monitoring goes west. Fires spread across california.

Tropical floater 3. Noaa s geostationary operational environmental satellite goes provides 5min observations over the conterminous u s. For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data. West coast alaska central alaska southeastern alaska northern pacific ocean hawaii tropical pacific ocean southern pacific ocean goes east.

At night the blue colors represent liquid water clouds such as fog and stratus while gray to.