Satellite Image Smoke Pacific Northwest

For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data.

Satellite image smoke pacific northwest.

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. Leaflet powered by esri usgs noaa. Published by pnw smoke cooperators. West coast alaska central alaska southeastern alaska northern pacific ocean hawaii tropical pacific ocean southern pacific ocean goes east.

Pacus full disk pacific northwest pacific southwest 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. In satellite images taken by noaa on thursday and friday enormous amounts of smoke created by the fires can be seen extending and spiraling hundreds of miles out over the pacific ocean. The suomi npp satellite s visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs instrument captured a look at the smoke obscuring much of the pacific northwest on september 05 2017.

At night the blue colors represent liquid water clouds such as fog and stratus while gray to. 06 2020 when choking clouds of brown smoke began to billow.