South American Fires 2019

Aug. 19, 2019 – South American Fires

Fires in South America

Lots of South American fires burning right now. Here’s the Suomi NPP VIIRS RGB plus hotspot image for the last two days on the left, with one orbit of the OMPS aerosol aerosol index (unsmoothed) on the right.

Information provided by Colin Seftor, an atmospheric researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.