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Daily images of the estimated fire location in Mexico and Central America. "These fire products are generated at NGDC from individual orbits of nighttime DMSP OLS data. For each orbit, clouds, glare, sunlit areas, and lights are tagged. All tagged pixels are then geolocated. Each orbit is then compared to the stable nighttime lights (Nighttime Lights of the World). Pixels tagged as lights that are not found in the stable nighttime lights are fires. Fire Products since May 25 for Central America cover the area from 7 to 32 degrees North and 77 to 117 degrees West" (from NGDC's Mecico and Central Americ Fire page .) Image Legend: Red = fire, Tan = observation area over land, Blue = observation area over water, Gray = outside of the observation area, Grayscale = clouds, Blue-green = stable lights, Black = boundaries lat/lon gridlines.
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GOES-8 visible imagery over North america from May 6 and May 15. Smoke from the Central American fires have been identified in the images.
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GOES-8 Channel 2 images over Mexico and Central America from May 5 onward. In each image the RGB table has been reversed so that heat signatures from fires from Mexico to Guatemala appear as bright white dots.
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AVHRR channel 3 (3.8 micron) image from low resolution (4 km/pixel GAC) and high resolution (1 km/pixel LAC) data. See the OSEI report Archive for a full description of each figure.
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GOES-8 channel 1, 2, & 4 multi-spectral false color composite images over Central America and Mexico. See the OSEI report Archive for a full description of each figure
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GOES-8 channels 1, 2, & 4 multi-spectral false color composite images over North America. See the OSEI report Archive for a full description of each figure.
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Night time images derived from ATSR nadir view calibrated data. The Multi-channel Color Imagery is made using 3.7 and 11 micro channels. Pixels showing saturation in 3.7 micron channel (temperature above 312 K (39 C) degrees) have been superimposed on the final RGB composite as red "hot" spots.
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Hourly PM-10 concentration time charts of Austin, Corpus-Christi and Brownsville between May 5 and 23, 1998 as monitored by TNRCC. The maximum recorded hourly average PM-10 concentration reached an extreme value of 580 micrograms per cubic meter. A more complete description of the data is provided at http://capita.wustl.edu/Central-America/DataWarehouse/DataSets/TNRCC/TNRCC.html.
Temporal Coverage:
1998
May
5
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1998
May
23
Place:
United States of America
Other Places:
Texas, Austin, Corpus-Christi, Brownsville
Description:
Particulate concentration (PM10) forecast maps based on the forest fires burning in Mexico and Central American. The concentrations were estimated using the HYSPLIT dispersion model and forecast meteorology from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) global Aviation Model (AVN). See http://www.arl.noaa.gov/ready/yucatanfire.html > for a full description of the calculation procedure and uncertainties associated with the estimated concentrations.
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Two day isobaric forecast trajectories from nine regions with fires in Central America and Mexico. The trajectories are computed using HYSPLIT model and the current NOAA NCEP global Medium Range Forecast (MRF) model output. The trajectory forecasts begin at two different altitudes, 1000 m and 3000 m AGL, daily at 12 UTC.
