10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-19 (GOES-East) True Color RGB images along with the Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) derived product from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) displayed a plume of blowing dust — which was originating from salt flats along the northern edge of Laguna Mar Chiquita in northern Argentina — being transported south-southwestward on 12... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) True Color RGB and Near-Infrared “Cirrus” (1.37 µm) images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) showed a plume of Canadian wildfire smoke over parts of Alaska on 11 June 2025. This plume of smoke aloft was initially drifting westward across Yukon and Interior Alaska early in... Read More
The GOES-19 view of the Northern Hemisphere on the morning of 3 June 2025 showed enhanced aerosol optical depth (AOD) across much of its domain. Large regions of elevated AOD are ceen in the eastern half of the continental United States extending out into the western Atlantic Ocean, while the... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images with an overlay of the FDCA Fire Mask derived product (above) showed that a large wildfire south of La Ronge (station identifier CYVC) in central Saskatchewan produced a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud during... Read More
