AWIPS images of the MODIS visible and 3.7 µm shortwave IR channels (above) showed smoke and a “hot spot” associated with a large wildfire that had burned over 30,000 acres in the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern North Carolina on 07 June 2008.The fire was started by lightning about... Read More
A sequence of 3 daily AVHRR false-color images from the 16-18 April 2008 period (above; viewed using Google Earth) showed large amounts of smoke (the hazy-looking, lighter gray areas on the images) from fires that were burning in parts of Argentina. One of the largest fires was located between Rosario and... Read More
An animation of GOES-12 (GOES-East) visible channel imagery (above) showed the development of an elongated plume of blowing dust over the south-central US on 10 April 2008. The dust plume originated in eastern New Mexico and western Texas, and was being drawn northeastward... Read More
Explosive events from the Kilauea Volcano (located on the Big Island of Hawai’i) began to occur in mid-March of 2008 — these were the first explosive events from that particular volcano since 1927. Activity from Kilauea then continued for several weeks; GOES-11 (GOES-West) 0.63 µm visible... Read More
