The satellite sensors used to detect fires are sensitive to heat sources and reflected sunlight.
Satellite noaa smoke map.
Goes west imagery 30 minutes.
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.
Click on goes east band reference guide to find out the primary usage of each of the goes east bands.
The noaa also shared thursday s view of.
They show the smoke drifting from oregon heading south into california and through the san francisco bay area over a two day period starting on sept.
To the north a mid latitude cyclone spins over the gulf of alaska while hurricane genevieve continues its path toward baja california.
The ability to detect fires and smoke can be compromised by many factors including cloud cover tree canopy terrain the size of the fire or smoke plume the time of the day etc.
Goes east satellite loops images click on the links to view the images or loop for each available band and view static images will enlarge while loops will be shown on another tab.
Air quality pm 2 5 information from official monitors is shown as circles air quality pm 2 5 information from temporary monitors placed by agencies during smoke events is show as triangles air quality pm 2 5 information from low cost sensors is shown as squares large fire incidents as fire icons satellite fire detections as small glowing points and smoke plume.
As the southwestern united states endures a record heat wave the.
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Eastern central mountain and pacific.
Surface only total smoke includes smoke aloft large area view.
Real time satellite fire monitoring goes west.
Hms fire and smoke data products are marked with the time stamp representing the corresponding satellite image acquisition observation time in universal time coordinated utc and date using the julian day calendar 0 365 day of year for regular years 0 366 for leap years.