James Hemby has registered: Impacts on surface-level ozone air quality data; regulatory considerations

Patrick Reddy has registered: Regional transport, smoke effects on ozone, PM2.5, natural events policy, visibility, air quality forecasting, climate change.

Draft: The Impact of the 1998 Central American Smoke on the Atmospheric Environment of Eastern North America: Draft paper. On May 14 and 15 the 4000 km contiguous smoke plume stretched from Guatemala to Hudson Bay in Canada. The location of fires was detected by...; Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 9/22/00

Tom DeFelice has registered: This is simply meant to inform those of you who may be interested. RESOURCE21 may have an aerosol datset that could be very useful in ground-truthing your...

Doug Fox has registered: Smoke Management & Climate Change

Forrest M. Mims III has registered: During the burning seasons of 1995 and 1997 I measured many parameters associated with biomass burning in Brazil for NASA and the University of Sao Paulo....

A 1000 Mile Long Smoke Ribbon over Alaska: On October 8, 1998 a smoke plume was observed over Alaska stretching from the Canadian boarder through central Alaska to Kodiak Island. GOES 9 satellite...; Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 10/15/98

Carl Popp has registered: Oxygenated hydrocarbon (esp aldehydes, ketones and organic acids) sources and transport. Biomass burning

test: round blue ball; Submitted by Schichtel Bret

Roy Dixon has registered: Aerosol chemical composition, aerosol properties, transport of smoke plume, gas phase pollutants in smoke plumes

Smoke Haze Images: Lubbock, TX & Lincoln NF, NM: I have put up some web pages with images of the Central America- Mexico- Southwestern USA smoke and its effect on visibility in the Lincoln National Forest...; Submitted by Gill Tom on 6/19/98

Discussion anyone?: This is the place to have a free discussion on the summary slide show. Click on the Submit Comment button or on a Response button.; Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 6/14/98

The Central American Smoke Event of May 1998 - Summary slide Show: This is the first draft of a SUMMARY report on the Cental Amarican Smoke Event. It is given as a set of briefing slides - PowePoint presentations). Comment...; Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 6/14/98

Tom Gill has registered: Long-range aerosol transport, aerosol chemistry, ecological and biogeochemical effects of aerosols

Fire Detection from the DMSP satellite: Daily images of the estimated fire location in Mexico and Central America. `These fire products are generated at NGDC from individual orbits of nighttime...; Submitted by Schichtel Bret

Science and Air Quality Management Lessons Learned from the Central American Smoke and Asian Dust Events: This is a list of 6 observation regarding the Asian dust and Central American smoke events. I have e-mailed this to a number of managers at EPA and other...; Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 6/2/98

Re: Spectral aerosol optical depth data on fires: Nels, having spectral turbidity data of the dust would be great. Sharing our respective results and ideas early (incomplete and unfinished as they may be),...; Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 6/1/98

Spectral aerosol optical depth data on fires: I have access to multifilter rotating shadowband radiometer data from various sites in the US (mainly). These data can be used to derive estimates of aerosol...; Submitted by Laulainen Nels on 6/1/98

Extinguishing The Fires: For informationing regarding an effective method of extinguishing the fires and therefore eliminating the source of the smoke see www.FuelSafeTech.com.; Submitted by D'Alba Jay on 6/1/98

Paul Guthrie has registered: Air Quality impacts of fire plumes

Enhanced Java Animator: An enhanced version of the Java image animator (Ani2) submitted by Scott Bachmeier. The applet now uses an external metadata file to store attributes of...; Submitted by Van Hook Bryan on 5/28/98

Bryan Van Hook has registered: Internet development.

Nels Laulainen has registered: I have access to multifilter rotating shadowband radiometer data from various sites in the US (mainly). These data can be used to derive estimates of aerosol...

Jay D'Alba has registered: I am working with the Malaysian Fire Authorities and we have developed effective protocols for addressing wild fire scenarios utilizing F-500 Mycelle...

Central America and Mexico Forward Trajectories: Two day isobaric forecast trajectories from nine regions with fires in Central America and Mexico. The trajectories are computed using HYSPLIT model and...; Submitted by Schichtel Bret

Smoke Prediction from Central American Fires: Particulate concentration (PM10) forecast maps based on the forest fires burning in Mexico and Central American. The concentrations were estimated using...; Submitted by Schichtel Bret

AVHRR Channel 3 Images Over Central America and Mexico: AVHRR channel 3 (3.8 micron) image from low resolution (4 km/pixel GAC) and high resolution (1 km/pixel LAC) data. See the ...; Submitted by Schichtel Bret

GOES-8 Multi-channel Color Imagery Over North American: GOES-8 channels 1, 2, & 4 multi-spectral false color composite images over North America. See the ...; Submitted by Schichtel Bret

PM-10 Concentrations in Texas during the May Smoke: Hourly PM-10 concentration time charts of Austin, Corpus-Christi and Brownsville between May 5 and 23, 1998 as monitored by TNRCC (http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/monops/daily_average...; Submitted by Kayin Serpil

ATSR Multi-channel Color Imagery Over Central American: 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...; Submitted by Schichtel Bret

GOES-8 Multi-channel Color Imagery Over Central American: GOES-8 channel 1, 2, & 4 multi-spectral false color composite images over Central America and Mexico. See the ...; Submitted by Schichtel Bret

GOES-8 IR Imagery Identifies Locations of Central American Fires: 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...; Submitted by Schichtel Bret

Summary of the May 1998 Smoke Event using GOES-8 Imagery: 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.; Submitted by Schichtel Bret

Summary of the May 1998 Smoke Event using GOES-8 Imagery: The May 1998 Central American smoke event is summarized using a series of GOES-8 visible imagery over North America. These images are used to show the...; Submitted by Schichtel Bret

ROBERT HALL has registered: forest management, gis, we're right here in the middle if anyone needs on the ground info!

PM-10 Concentrations in Texas during the May Smoke Event: During the Central American Smoke Event, the Texas Natural Resources Conservation Committee (TNRCC) has continuously monitored the PM-10 concentrations...; Submitted by Kayin Serpil on 5/22/98

Serpil Kayin has registered: WEb based collaboration.

James W. Yarbrough has registered

News Headlines Related to Central American Smoke Affecting Texas: Submitted by Bachmann John on 5/22/98

Health Effects: Air quality over Houston is normal at present and there have been no documented adverse health effects from Central American smoke to date. There is no...; Submitted by Castriotta Richard on 5/22/98

Summary of May 20, 1998 EPA Activities Regarding Response to Mexican and Central American Fires: The EPA has obtained additional fine particulate (PM-2.5) data from sampling conducted May 17-18 and May 18-19 at four separate locations in Texas.; Submitted by Yarbrough James W. on 5/21/98

Filomeno Gonzalez has registered: I am interested in the effects of the fires over the eastern border of the Yucatan peninsula around the Cancun area as well as the Mayan ruins in that region....

Re: Health Effects: This was sent to me via email today (5/20/1998):
I just returned east from a weekend in Dallas and experienced a severe asthmatic attack. Since I do...; Submitted by Bachmeier Scott on 5/20/98

Health Effects: Has anyone documented any adverse health effects from the Central American smoke? At this point we do not have any documented ill effects on health in...; Submitted by Castriotta Richard on 5/19/98

Richard Castriotta has registered: Effects of smoke on breathing problems in Houston

John Forest has registered: we have begun to experience a noxious haze here in las cruces, nm (just north of el paso, texas). it began on may 17 and made for a beautiful sunset....

Re: Smoke heading to Canada and the Eas Coast?: Northern VT was moderately hazy Friday afternoon 5/15 through Sunday morning 5/17/98. A high, thin, uniform haze that made the sky appear washed-out blue-grey....; Submitted by Poirot Rich on 5/18/98

Re:The Central American Smoke Event of May 1998: Huh, this was a big one! It was the kind of smoke event that only an AQ analyst could love. In STL it was really thick and the way I see it on SeaWiFS and...; Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 5/18/98

The Central American Smoke Event of May 1998 - Summary, May 17: A Summary of the BigSmoke event based on Reports and Data on the Web as of May 17, 1998.; Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 5/18/98

24-average PM-2.5 of 68 ug/m3 monitored in St. Louis: The Air Quality Laboratory has been running a PM-2.5 FRM on the roof of Urbauer Hall at Washington University in St. Louis since the unit arrived a few...; Submitted by Turner Jay on 5/17/98

St. Louis PM10 concentration reaches 135 ug/m3: The city of St. Louis has a beta gauge that continuously records the PM10 concentration. Throughout the past week, the concentrations ranged between 10...; Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 5/15/98

Re: smoke reaches Wisconsin, moves into Canada: Hi, Scott deja vu all over again, huh?. Yes the smoke is sure thick. Last night as I was expecting the smoke to hit St. Louis, I was also ready with my...; Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 5/15/98

smoke reaches Wisconsin, moves into Canada

Our CIMSS GOES Gallery has a Web page with GOES-8 imagery showing the transport of smoke from the period 06-15 May 1998:

(http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/misc/980513.html)

I...

Submitted by Bachmeier Scott on 5/15/98

Scott Bachmeier has registered: satellite meteorology, long-range atmospheric transport

Jay Turner has registered: fine particulate mattter characterization and control, field monitoring, control strategy implementation policies

Rich Poirot has registered: Transport patterns, wildfire smoke in general

Smoke heading to Canada and the Eas Coast?: OK, virtual community, this may be a good way to start this Tech Forum: I have just posted a color SeaWiFS...; Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 5/15/98

GOES-8 IR Central America: These are GOES-8 channel 2 infarered images with RGB rable reversed so that the heat signatures from the fires at the surface appear as bright white spots.; Submitted by Schichtel Bret on 5/15/98

John Bachmann has registered: PM health effects and standards, implementation of standards, natural events policy, transport, and research

Central American Fires in the News: This is a list of web links to news articles on the Central American fires. This page of links is maintained by the National Weather Service in Lake Charles,...; Submitted by Schichtel Bret on 5/15/98

warren white has registered: visibility, long-range transport, human observation,ambient fine-particle standard

GOES: GOES images explainations; Submitted by Falke Stefan on 5/15/98

Central American Forest Fires Smoke Prediction Using Hysplit_4: Forecasted PM10 downwind concentrations due to the Central American Fires from May 14 to May 17. The forecasts were calculated using the ...; Submitted by Schichtel Bret on 5/14/98

Smoke From Central American Fires, Goes8 Image and NOAA ARL Trajectories: A series of GOES-8 visible imagery from 06-13 May 1998 (below) shows the daily changes and large areal extent of the smoke pall which originated in Central...; Submitted by Husar Maja on 5/14/98

STATE EXTENDS SMOKE/PUBLIC HEALTH ALERT UNTIL MONDAY: The public health alert has been extended until noon Monday, May 18, for residents who live along and inland of the Texas Gulf Coast, from the Lower Rio...; Submitted by Husar Maja on 5/14/98

Real-time Environmental Applications and Display System (READY): READY is an online source of past, present, and future meteorological data, as well as an interactive trajectory and dispersion modeling server.; Submitted by Schichtel Bret on 5/14/98

PUBLIC HEALTH ALERT FOR COASTAL REGION CONTINUES: The TNRCC and the Texas Department of Health continued a public health alert for residents who live along and inland of the Texas Gulf Coast because of...; Submitted by Husar Maja on 5/14/98

Stefan Falke has registered: Aerosol pattern

Maja Husar has registered: Web page design

Rudolf Husar has registered: Aerosol pattern, transport, web-based collaboration.

Bret Schichtel has registered: Air quality, long range transport, and interesting phenomena