Earth  ID: 2943

Canadian Smoke Invades the East Coast

Visualizations by Stuart A. Snodgrass Released on May 17, 2004
Smoke from multiple large wildfires in Canada blanketed the Great Lakes and eastern United States. The enormous smoke plume was almost 200 miles wide. The thick pall affected air quality from New York, to Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. and blocked the sunlight cooling the East Coast. The first image was taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on July 7, 2002. The second image comes from NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) on the Earth Probe Satellite.
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Canadian Smoke from July 7th, 2002.
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The East Coast of the United States. Blue Marble data set with state lines and country boundaries.
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Terra-MODIS dataset from July 7th, 2002. Data is co-registered to the Blue Marble dataset.
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TOMS Aerosals dataset from July 7th, 2002, overlaid the Terra-MODIS dataset.

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http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2004/0517aura.html

Visualization Credits

Stuart A. Snodgrass (GST): Lead Animator
Mark Schoeberl (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
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Mission:
Terra

Data Used:
Terra/MODIS
2002/07/07
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Earth Probe/TOMS/Ozone
2002/07/07
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This item is part of this series:
Aura Prelaunch

Goddard TV Tapes:
G2004-020
G2008-042HD -- HD Fires, Ozone, and Air Quality RT

Keywords:
DLESE >> Atmospheric science
DLESE >> Forestry
SVS >> HDTV
DLESE >> Natural hazards
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Aerosols
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Biosphere >> Ecological Dynamics >> Fire Occurrence
GCMD >> Location >> Canada
SVS >> For Educators
SVS >> Pollutants >> Concentration
SVS >> Pollutants >> Particulates
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