Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Smoke, smoke, everywhere!


I am amazed by the continuous plume of smoke you can now trace all across norther Russia, US, and Canada. It seems that nearly eveyrthing is on fire, or under a pall of smoke north of 60 degrees latitude. This image is a three image mosaic of the fires/smoke over western Russia. Rememnber the swath width of MODIS can be well over 1000 miles, so this is a lot of territory. What in the name of Al Gore is going on? Global Burning? Was that in "An Inconvenient Cloud of Smoke"? - HLG

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