Saturday, October 18, 2008

[Asia] Wildfires in Southeast Russia (Amur region), 2001/05/13


2001/133 - 05/13 at 02 :15 UTC
Irkutsk, 2001/148- 05/28 at 04:45 UTC

Krasnoyarsk region, Russia, 2001/149 - 05/29 at 05 :30 UTC

This image of Southeast Russia (Amur region) was acquired May 13, 2001, by the Terra/MODIS instrument. The smoke aerosols from forest fires (e.g. biomass burning aerosols) were continuously generated from fire locations (red dots). Normally, these smokes consists of carbon particles and absorb solar radiation.

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