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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.


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

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Model
Suomi NPP > VIIRS
Collection:
Applied Sciences