November 1, 2007
Summary of air quality from California fires
EPA's AIRNow Program and NASA's Applied Sciences Program issued a news story summarizing the fine particle concentrations during the week of the California fires. The left panel is a composite MODIS AOD image. The right panel is a summary of fine particle concentrations from monitors in the region.
Erica Zell from Battelle put together the AOD composite and we put together this summary of each day's AOD. Notice how the smoke plume blows out over the Pacific from Monday through Wednesday, then back on-shore Thursday through Friday (although our AOD data is limited on Thursday and Friday due to cloud cover).
