| 1996 Aug19 20:55 UT |
This image was aquired by NOAA 14 at 20:55 UT over the western U.S.
This was a daytime pass, mostly clear except Colorado.
Southern California was missed before the signal was aquired. The
southwestern part of this image is dominated by sea fog which shows
as a yellow color in this image. One of the major topographic
features visible in this image is the Central Valley which shows as
shades of lighter red extending from about 35N to 40N. The red is
due to vegetation and is surrounded outward by a blue band and then
a darker reddish band of mountainous areas. The major fires in this
image occur in this mountainous zone. Smoke appears somewhat yellow-green
with this color combination. To the northwest of the Central Valley
smoke from the Fork fire is visible just north of Clear Lake. Just
west of the southern end of the Central Valley the San Luis Obispo fire
is visible as a greenish smoke plume drifting east from a small dark
blue area. East of the middle of the Central Valley are two bright
yellow-green smoke plumes from the fires in the Stanislaus National Forest
just west of Yosmite National Park. Mono Lake is visible just to their
east as a round black area with an island. What appears to be another
fire is visible further south.
Map of the pass
Channel 2 view of the data
White areas are clouds.
California and Nevada
Color composite image using channels 1, 2, and 3.
This was a very low western pass as viewed from here (Maryland), the
satellite never really got above the tree-line, so the signal was a bit
noisy in some places but it still gives a useful view of the smoke
plumes of the larger fires in California.
