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Archive: May 2010

Smoke from fires in Quebec, Canada

Large wildfires began to burn in parts of Quebec, Canada during the last few days of May 2010. AWIPS images of  1-km resolution POES AVHRR 0.63 µm visible channel and  3.7 µm shortwave IR channel data (above) revealed several clusters of hot pixels (yellow to red pixels) associated with... Read More