Goes West Satellite Smoke

Goes west satellite imagery.

Goes west satellite smoke.

Goes 17 goes west is monitoring a number of fires in california. Noaa s geostationary operational environmental satellite or goes west satellite spotted smoke over the u s. Fire smoke snow ice surface hydrology vegetation. Geocolor is a multispectral product composed of true color using a simulated green component during the daytime and an infrared product that uses bands 7 and 13 at night.

Mid west from dozens of fires raging in canada s northwestern territories. West coast alaska central alaska southeastern alaska northern pacific ocean hawaii tropical pacific ocean southern pacific ocean goes east. Conus imaging sector and 10min observations over the entire western hemisphere full disk imaging sector with two satellites positioned at 75 2 o w goes 16 launched on november 2016 and 137 2 o w goes 17 launched on march 2018. In this imagery from august 19 2020 which combines geocolor imagery with the fire temperature data product both the fires hotspots and smoke plumes are visible.

Extreme eastern pacific imagery is also available on the west atlantic imagery. 19 2020 noaa s goes west satellite captured the above geocolor image loop of massive wildfire smoke plumes billowing from california and areas of the rocky mountains. To the north a mid latitude cyclone spins over the gulf of alaska while hurricane genevieve continues its path toward baja california. Goes active fire detection data.

At night the blue colors represent liquid water clouds such as fog and stratus while gray to. Fires spread across california. Tropical floater 3. And extending hundreds of miles over the pacific ocean.

Noaa s geostationary operational environmental satellite goes provides 5min observations over the conterminous u s. Goes west imagery 30 minutes. During the day the imagery looks approximately as it would appear when viewed with human eyes from space. Goes west pacus full disk pacific northwest pacific southwest u s.

The fire and smoke map shows fine particulate 2 5 micron pm 2 5 pollution data obtained from air quality monitors and sensors information is shown on both the epa s air quality index scale using the nowcast aqi algorithm and also as hourly pm 2 5 concentration values. Imagery available about 25 minutes later. Real time satellite fire monitoring goes west. Satellite images show massive amounts of smoke engulfing the west coast of the u s.

For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data.