June 2012 Wildfire Smoke Dispersion Credit: NOAA Visualization
Lab The HYSPLIT wildfire smoke model run on June 29th, 2012
shows the cloud of smoke being emitted from many of the
wildfires raging in the Western U.S. at that time. The actual
locations of these point-source pollutants can be seen as very
high concentration smoke areas. The ability of the GOES
satellite to detect aerosols is an important input to these
models, as are the wind measurements derived from GOES infrared
imagery.