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Satellite image of smoke over western us.
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Much of the smoke and associated pollution rises high into the atmosphere where it does not pose an immediate threat to people.
Along with the smoke small particles suspended in the air aerosols are also moved along the jet stream and bring hazardous air quality across the country.
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The latest installment in this series is a satellite image of the western united states showing the vast amounts of smoke produced by its wildfires as they burn.
Noaa nasa s suomi npp satellite captured two recent images of the united states and both images show that the winds have changed yet again blowing the smoke from western fires back to the east and crossing the continental u s.
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In the morning of august 20 2020 in california the geostationary operational environmental satellite 17 captured a natural color image of the smoke above.
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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.
Conus imaging sector and 10min observations over the entire western hemisphere full disk imaging sector with two satellites positioned at 75 2 o w goes 16 launched on november 2016 and 137 2 o w goes 17 launched on march 2018.
Smoke is seen hovering over much of western north america and central canada.
The visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs on the suomi npp satellite acquired this image top on august 15 2018.
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Here s an eye opening satellite photo captured by nasa showing the wildfires and smoke dominating the landscape of the western united states.
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Smoke has spread across large swaths of the western united states and the pacific ocean.
Goes 17 is operated by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration noaa.
Noaa s geostationary operational environmental satellite goes provides 5min observations over the conterminous u s.
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