Satellite Image Smoke Pacific Northwest

Usfs air quality webcam images.

Satellite image smoke pacific northwest.

Noaa nasa s suomi npp satellite captured these series of images made into an animated gif showing the winds changing direction on sep. 06 2020 when choking clouds of brown smoke began to billow. 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.

Published by pnw smoke cooperators. 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. 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. 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.

During the day the imagery looks approximately as it would appear when viewed with human eyes from space. For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data.