071022SoCalSmoke
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071022SoCalSmoke: 071022 Southern California Smoke
| 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 |
Contents |
Science-Oriented Websites
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.
- IDEA - Infusing satellite Data into Environmental Applications
- rhusar Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:05:08 +0000
- EMC: Air Quality Forecast Home page
- Air Quality Forecast Home Page
- rhusar Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:02:46 +0000
- Smoke Forecasting Demo Project - Forecasting Page
- rhusar Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:19:58 +0000
Aerosol and Smoke, NearRealTime
- Fire Hazard Mapping System - Satellite Services Division
- rhusar Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:19:19 +0000
- AIRNow - Home
- The U.S. EPA, NOAA, NPS, tribal, state, and local agencies developed the AIRNow Web site to provide the public with easy access to national air quality information. AIRNow offers daily AQI forecasts by State and local Agencies for over 300 US cities and real-time ozone maps air iit Quality Index conditions covering 46 US States and parts of Canada.
- rhusar Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:48:43 +0000
- NOAA Satellite Fire Detections
- 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
- rhusar Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:12:14 +0000
Science Web Links
- EUMETSAT - Infrared Closup
- This closeup infrared image clearly show the hotspots of the fires, the smoke from which can be seen blowing over the Pacific and Baja California in the visible image.
- rhusar Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:32:41 +0000
- EUMETSAT - Media - Metop-A sees California fires
- As fire fighters struggled to contain the blazes on the ground in Southern California, EUMETSAT's Metop-A polar-orbiting satellite was taking images from above with its AVHRR
- rhusar Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:33:15 +0000
- Southern CA fires (2007) BAMS CMAQ forecast
- rhusar Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:38:08 +0000
Near Real time Data Console
Console Explanation will follow
Other Dataset Links
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Web Harvesting for 'California Smoke'
YouTube Videos
List of selected videos from YouTube.
Google Searches
- Google News Search: California Fire Smoke
- Google Image Search: California Fire Smoke
- Google Web Search: California Fire Smoke
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
- rhusar Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:09:16 +0000
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