Earth ID: 2386

SeaWiFS: California Wild Fires

Visualizations by Stuart A. Snodgrass Released on February 12, 2002

NASA's Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View sensor (SeaWiFS) captured this striking image of large dust and smoke plumes blowing from Baja, California, February 10, 2002.

Here and there amongst the yellowish brown dust plumes, whiter smoke plumes are also visible, including a smaller one that appears to be coming from the Fallbrook, California area. Eleven people were injured and over thirty homes were destroyed in the town.SeaWiFS captured this image of numerous large dust plumes blowing oceanward from Baja California, Mexico.

From space, the yellowish brown dust plumes and whiter smoke plumes are visible. SeaWiFS keeps a ever vigal eye on the Earth, but not only does it see smoke, fires, and vegetation, it also sees the ever changing oceans. Please take a few minutes and see the wonder of what is our home, Earth.

Visualization Credits

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

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, The SeaWiFS Project and GeoEye, Scientific Visualization Studio. NOTE: All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye (NOTE: In January 2013, DigitalGlobe and GeoEye combined to become DigitalGlobe).

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Data Used:

SeaStar/SeaWiFS

2002/02/10

NOTE: All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye

Credit:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, The SeaWiFS Project and GeoEye, Scientific Visualization Studio. NOTE: All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye (NOTE: In January 2013, DigitalGlobe and GeoEye combined to become one DigitalGlobe.).

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Fires

Keywords:
DLESE >> Atmospheric science
SVS >> Baja
DLESE >> Environmental science
DLESE >> Forestry
DLESE >> Human geography
SVS >> Smoke
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Biosphere >> Ecological Dynamics >> Fire Occurrence
GCMD >> Location >> California
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