DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0230Z June 10, 2010
Alaska/Northwestern Canada: The large wildfires in the northern Yukon Territory and in eastern Alaska continue to produce areas of locally dense smoke. The larger surrounding mass of thin to moderately dense smoke covered the northwest Yukon, central and northern Alaska, and a portion of the Arctic Ocean. Western and Central Canada: Additional significant smoke producing fires were detected in the area surrounding the Great Slave Lake and Lake Athabasca extending farther down into Saskatchewan Province. Eastern Canada: A swath of thin smoke likely leftover from the Canadian and Alaskan fires was visible early this evening extending from Greenland across the Labrador Sea to Labrador Province and far eastern Quebec Province. Gulf of Mexico/Southeast: An area of aerosol covered much of the Gulf of Mexico and inland across the Southeast from Texas to the Carolinas. Some of this aerosol may be composed of remnant smoke from the seasonal fires burning in Mexico and Central America though the contribution is not known. JS THE FORMAT OF THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS BEING MODIFIED. IT WILL NO LONGER DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS PLUMES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES. THESE PLUMES ARE DEPICTED IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/land/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html THIS TEXT PRODUCT WILL CONTINUE TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE WHICH HAVE BECOME DETACHED FROM AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE, TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. IT WILL ALSO STILL INCLUDE DESCRIPTIONS OF BLOWING DUST. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THESE CHANGES OR THE SMOKE TEXT PRODUCT IN GENERAL SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov