A Vertical View of Wildfire Smoke as it Heads to Sea

As satellites observed, an intense wildfire in Quebec, Canada, lofted smoke high into the atmosphere in June 2013. Winds then drove the smoke across the Atlantic Ocean all the way to Europe.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using expediated data provided by the CALIPSO team. Caption by Adam Voiland, with information from Scott Bachmeier (University of Wisconsin), Colin Seftor (NASA GSFC), and Rene Servranckx (Canadian Meteorological Centre).

Published June 28, 2013
Data acquired June 23, 2013

Sources:

Aqua > MODIS

CALIPSO > CALIOP