Goes West Satellite California Fires

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Goes west satellite california fires.

By wednesday the national oceanic and atmospheric administration s goes west satellite was also able to pick up the smoke plume from the easy fire erupting in southern california driven by. Goes 16 and goes 17 the goes 16 and 17 satellites are in a geostationary orbit meaning they rotate with the earth and always view the same area of earth s surface. West coast this past week wildfires began to spread rapidly in. To the north a mid latitude cyclone spins over the gulf of alaska while hurricane genevieve continues its path toward baja california.

Real time satellite fire monitoring goes west. East coast canada northern atlantic ocean caribbean gulf of mexico puerto rico tropical atlantic ocean eastern pacific ocean mexico central america south america north south. Goes 16 goes 17 modis and viiirs. Imagery available about 25 minutes later.

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. 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. Earth orbiting satellites have spotted the wildfires ripping through northern california. Nasa lance fire information for resource management system provides near real time active fire data from modis and viirs to meet the needs of firefighters scientists and users interested in monitoring fires.

Fires spread across california. There are six fire detection satellite platforms used for our map. Goes east conus full disk northern rockies upper mississippi valley great lakes northeast southern rockies southern plains southern mississippi valley southeast u s. Fire data is available for download or can be viewed through a map interface.

Goes west imagery 30 minutes. Visit insider s homepage for more stories. For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data. More than 85 wildfires are raging across the west coast burning hundreds of thousands of acres.

Users can subscribe to email alerts bases on their area. As record high temperatures hit the u s. The data they provide is for california only. 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.