Northeast Pacific Ocean

The bloom off the U.S. west coast is partly visible around a bank of clouds that looks like it might have been formed, in part, by contrails. There is also a cloud bank that may be a smoke plume originating in the mountains just to the north of Clear Lake in California.

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Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

Published April 1, 2000
Data acquired April 1, 2000

Source:

OrbView-2 > SeaWiFS

Topic:

Human Dimensions > Environmental Impacts > Industrial Emissions