071022SoCalSmoke
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| Description: Drought and Santa Ana winds created "perfect fire" conditions in S. California
- There is a wealth of information on the event dispersed over the Web |
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[edit] Science-Oriented Websites
[edit] Aerosol and Smoke Forecasts
Smoke forecast are now being performed by diverse approaches, including chemical transport models that assimilate fire observations and forward trajectory models. In the resource table below the smoke forecast are available as quantitative datasets that can be browsed and analyzed. The additional links below point to forecasting presented through their respective, dedicated interfaces.
| DatasetTitle | ProviderAbbr | DataType | SampleMethod | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EMC Model | EMC_Model | NOAA | SeqImage | Model |
| GOCART G OL | Global Chemical Transport Model | NASA | GRID | Model |
| NAAPS GLOBAL | NRL Global Aerosol Model | NRL | Image | Model |
| NAAPS NoAm | NRL Global Aerosol Model | NRL | Image | Model |
Web pages to smoke forecasts, tagged as 071022SoCalSmoke Forecast:
USFS BlueSky/CMAQ California Predictions Experimental smoke prediction page from USFS/STI/DRI/NASA/NOAA. 26 October 2007, by raffscallion
IDEA - Infusing satellite Data into Environmental Applications 26 October 2007, by rhusar
EMC: Air Quality Forecast Home page Air Quality Forecast Home Page, Mesoscale Modeling Branch 25 October 2007, by erinmr
NOAA Smoke Forecast Loops 25 October 2007, by srf_dsc
EMC: Air Quality Forecast Home page Air Quality Forecast Home Page 24 October 2007, by rhusar
Smoke Forecasting Demo Project - Forecasting Page 24 October 2007, by rhusar
AIRNow - Home The AIRNow Website (EPA, NOAA, NPS, tribal, state, and local agencies) provides easy access to US air quality: daily AQI forecasts; real-time AQI conditions; links to air quality Web sites. 24 October 2007, by rhusar
NRL Monterey Aerosol Shortcuts Page Links to the NAAPS global aerosol model for dust, smoke, and sulfate, meteorological and satellite data. 24 October 2007, by rhusar
NRL Monterey Aerosol Shortcuts Page 24 October 2007, by erinmr
NOAA's NWS/EPA - U.S. Air Quality Forecast Guidance Twice daily forecasts of ozone and smoke by the joint NOAA-EPA AQ forecast system 21 June 2007, by rhusar
[edit] Aerosol and Smoke, NearRealTime
| DatasetTitle | ProviderAbbr | DataType | SampleMethod | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CALIPSO | CALIPSO Lidar Browse Images | NASA | Image | RemoteSens |
| GASP | GASP | NOAA | SeqImage | Model |
| GASP tiff | Gasp in GEOtiff Format | NOAA | SeqImage | Model |
| GDSG Fire | GDSG Fire | NOAA | Image | RemoteSens |
| GOCART G OL | Global Chemical Transport Model | NASA | GRID | Model |
| MOPITT Day | MOPITT | NCAR | Image | RemoteSens |
| NOAA HMS WFS | NOAA HMS fires | NOAA | POINT | RemoteSens |
| OMI AI G | OMI Absorbing Aerosol Index | NASA | GRID | RemoteSens |
| OnEarth JPL | OnEarth Daily Aqua Terra Global Composite Images | NASA | SeqImage | RemoteSens |
| SURF MET | Global Surface Meteorology Monitoring Network | PSWC | POINT | Point |
| SURF MET WIND | Global Surface Meteorology Monitoring Network | PSWC | POINT | Point |
| TOMS AI G | TOMS Absorbing Aerosol Index | NASA | GRID | RemoteSens |
Interagency real time smoke monitoring 29 October 2007, by srf_dsc
Fire Hazard Mapping System - Satellite Services Division 24 October 2007, by rhusar
AIRNow - Home 24 October 2007, by rhusar The AIRNow Website (EPA, NOAA, NPS, tribal, state, and local agencies) provides easy access to US air quality: daily AQI forecasts; real-time AQI conditions; links to air quality Web sites.
NOAA Satellite Fire Detections 24 October 2007, by rhusar The smoke polygons are manually analyzed from satellite images by NOAA, Camp Springs, MD. Data archied, made visible as http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/maps/interactivemaps.html
[edit] Science Web Links
USFS BlueSky/CMAQ California Predictions 26 October 2007, by raffscallion
EUMETSAT - Infrared Closup 25 October 2007, by rhusar
EUMETSAT - Media - Metop-A sees California fires 25 October 2007, by rhusar
Southern CA fires (2007) BAMS CMAQ forecast 24 October 2007, by rhusar
Smog Blog: Califormia Smoke 23 October 2007, by rhusar
EO Newsroom: New Images - Fires in Southern California 23 October 2007, by rhusar
EO Newsroom: - Fires in Southern California 23 October 2007, by rhusar
MODIS Rapid Response System - Gallery 18 September 2006, by rhusar
[edit] Near Real time Data Console
Console Explanation will follow
[edit] Other Dataset Links
EO-1 Hyperion Witch Fire Views 25 October 2007, by srf_dsc
NASA Unmanned Aerial System Wildfire Monitoring
25 October 2007, by srf_dsc
25 October 2007, by srf_dsc
Weather Bonk - WebCams Southern California
23 October 2007, by rhusar
[edit] Web Harvesting for 'California Smoke'
[edit] YouTube Videos
List of selected videos from YouTube.
[edit] Google Searches
- Google News Search: California Fire Smoke
- Google Image Search: California Fire Smoke
- Google Web Search: California Fire Smoke
[edit] Blogs
Posts that contain California Fire per day for the last 30 days.
Posts that contain California Smoke Fire per day for the last 30 days.
- Google Blog Search: California Fire Smoke
Technorati Search: California Smoke Fire 23 October 2007, by rhusar
[edit] Flickr Images
- Flickr Images: California Smoke, after Oct 21, 2007
The image collection below is a subset of smoke pictures extracted from the above search. They represent the images that are of particular interest to smoke pattern, transport and color.
- Flickr Favorites Slide Show
Username: SoCalSmoke071022
PW: 071022SoCalSmoke
NOAA-NESDIS GOES animation
NOAA-NESDIS PM2.5 Emissions
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