Which Way Will the Smoke Go?

A new experimental model that relies on data from NOAA and NASA satellites has proven remarkably good at simulating the behavior of wildfire smoke.

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NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using VIIRS data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership and HRRR-Smoke data. Story by Jenny Marder, Joint Polar Satellite System.

Published November 6, 2018
Data acquired August 6, 2018

Sources:

Model

Suomi NPP > VIIRS

Collection:

Applied Sciences