Continental Effects of 2004 Alaskan Fires (WMS)

  • Released Monday, March 14, 2005
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Wildfires started by lightning burned more than 80,000 acres in Alaska in June 2004. The effects of these fires can be seen across North America with the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instrument on the Earth Probe spacecraft. TOMS detects the presence of UV-absorbing tropospheric aerosols across the globe.

This animation shows aerosol index over Alaska from June 21 through July 10, 2004. Each image pixel corresponds to an area 1 degree in longitude by 1.25 degrees in latitude.

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Color scale for this animation showing low aerosol values as shades of blue and green and higher values as yellow, orange or red. The units of aerosol index are dimensionless.

Color scale for this animation showing low aerosol values as shades of blue and green and higher values as yellow, orange or red. The units of aerosol index are dimensionless.

For More Information

See http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/aerosols/aerosols.html

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Monday, March 14, 2005.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.

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