From UW-Madison CIMSS: “We’re happy to share this smoke-free #VIIRS image of #California today.”
@NPR reports that the #KincadeFire & #MariaFire are almost fully contained. #CAwx https://npr.org/2019/11/04/776
Heavy smoke from Indonesia Fires. The Suomi NPP satellite using the VIIRS instrument shows RGB+hotpost on left, OMPS AI overlaid on right. High AI values mean thick smoke, particularly since it’s probably low altitude (where AI lacks sensitivity). Because of this, some smoke clearly seen in VIIRS not seen by OMPS.
Information provided by Colin Seftor, an atmospheric researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
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.
