Continental Effects of 2004 Alaskan Fires
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Continental Effects of 2004 Alaskan Fires (WMS)
Wildfires started by lightning burned more than 80,000 acres in Alaska in June 2004. The effects of these fires can be seen across North America with the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instrument on the Earth Probe spacecraft. TOMS detects the presence of UV-absorbing tropospheric aerosols across the globe.
This animation shows aerosol index over Alaska from June 21 through July 10, 2004. Each image pixel corresponds to an area 1 degree in longitude by 1.25 degrees in latitude.