Goes West Satellite Smoke

At 1200 utc 8 a m.

Goes west satellite smoke.

During the day the imagery looks approximately as it would appear when viewed with human eyes from space. Mid west from dozens of fires raging in canada s northwestern territories. Edt on july 9 2014 goes west captured this image of the brownish colored haze created by forest fires in canada s northwest territories that. Imagery available about 25 minutes later.

Fires spread across california. For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data. Goes west imagery 30 minutes. Goes west pacus full disk pacific northwest pacific southwest u s.

To the north a mid latitude cyclone spins over the gulf of alaska while hurricane genevieve continues its path toward baja california. Fire smoke snow ice surface hydrology vegetation. Tropical floater 3. 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.

And extending hundreds of miles over the pacific ocean. Noaa s geostationary operational environmental satellite goes provides 5min observations over the conterminous u s. Goes west satellite imagery. Real time satellite fire monitoring goes west.

West coast alaska central alaska southeastern alaska northern pacific ocean hawaii tropical pacific ocean southern pacific ocean goes east. 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. Goes 17 goes west is monitoring a number of fires in california. At night the blue colors represent liquid water clouds such as fog and stratus while gray to.

As the southwestern united states endures a record heat wave the. 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. Satellite images show massive amounts of smoke engulfing the west coast of the u s. Extreme eastern pacific imagery is also available on the west atlantic imagery.

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.