Earth ID: 2333

Smoke from Eastern Australia, 1/02/2002

Visualizations by Stuart A. Snodgrass Released on January 2, 2002

The fires in New South Wales continue to send great quantities of smoke across the Tasman Sea.

Fires in New South Wales can be seen from space, with the help of the Orbview2. Which is in an orbit 705 Km. above the earth.

Slate title from video tape reads, 'Smoke from eastern Australia, 1/02/2002. The fires in New South Wales continue to send great quantities of smoke across the Tasman Sea.'

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http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/fires_australia_20020104/index.html

Visualization Credits

Stuart A. Snodgrass (GST): Lead Animator
Gene Feldman (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

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Data Used:

SeaStar/SeaWiFS

2002/01/02

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Keywords:
DLESE >> Atmospheric science
DLESE >> Environmental science
DLESE >> Human geography
SVS >> New South Wales
SVS >> Smoke
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Biosphere >> Ecological Dynamics >> Fire Occurrence
GCMD >> Location >> Australia
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0