Continental Effects of 2004 Alaskan Fires

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

TOMS sees continental effects of 2004 Alaskan Fires

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 Probes spacecraft. TOMS detects the presence of UV-absorbing tropospheric aerosols across the globe.

Normal Aerosol levels, June 21, 2004

Metadata

  • Sensor

    TOMS/TOMS

  • Animation ID

    2967

  • Video ID

    none

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    Lori Perkins

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2004/07/02

  • Scientist

    Paul Newman (NASA/GSFC), Pawan K. Bhartia (NASA/GSFC)

  • DLESE Subject

    Atmospheric science

  • Data Date

    2004/06/21-30, 2004/07/01

  • Story URL

    http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/aerosols/aerosols.html

  • Animation Type

    Stills