August 30, 2009
Smoke over the West US and Canada
Today, Station Fire in California (with a little help of the northern Baja fires) caused a large area of the Western portion of US to be covered in moderate to very dense smoke as reported by HMS at NOAA (top, left). Also in this map we see a large area over Canada and US northern plains covered by smoke from the British Columbia fires.
AOD map from MODIS Aqua (top, right) shows high AOD values over Nevada, Utah and Canada as one could expect due to the latest events.
MODIS Terra true color images depicting these events are below (left image is LA County and right image Canada).
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For pictures of the actual fires and the pyroCb's refer to most recent images posted in the Your Scene section of the LA times
Below, the ozone levels in LA region and the PM2.5 readings (AIRNow loop is here).
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