California Wildfires Satellite View

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California wildfires satellite view.

Satellite views of california as wildfires rage. For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data. More than 1 million acres of california have already burned as fire season only just begins. A close up view of the river fire burning south.

These fires already amplified by a warming. 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. This map contains live feed sources for us current wildfire locations and perimeters viirs and modis hot spots wildfire conditions red flag warnings and wildfire potential each of these layers provides insight into where a fire is located its intensity and the surrounding areas susceptibility to wildfire. Striking satellite imagery shows how the fires are unfolding here are above earth views of the devastation in california caused by historic wildfires.

The space agency s terra satellite on monday captured a view posted in a blog on nasa s website that showed a pall of wildfire smoke covering most of california. The noaa also shared thursday s view of. New satellite images show the smoke from wildfires that s drifted 600 miles into the pacific ocean and made california s air quality plummet to very unhealthy and hazardous levels. In the image shown below.

Track storms hurricanes and wildfires. They show the smoke drifting from oregon heading south into california and through the san francisco bay area over a two day period starting on sept. 19 a surge in carbon emissions from california was the highest in the 18 year satellite record of reliable wildfire emissions monitoring.