Australia Fires From Space 2019

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Australia fires from space 2019. Australia battles bushfires every year but the current fire season is decisively one of the worst. An unprecedented number of bushfires have erupted on the east coast of Australia due to hot dry windy weather. Fire-breathing dragon of clouds.

Close to 11 million hectares 27 million acres have burned since September. Nearly 100 fires have torched an area bigger than Connecticut in New South Wales. Meteorologist Ivar van der Velde of the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research in Leiden and colleagues first examined carbon monoxide data collected over southeastern Australia by the satellite-based instrument TROPOMI from November 2019 to January 2020 during the worst of the fires.

Australias deadly wildfires have killed at least 17 people since they began in September 2019 and continued into January 2020. A satellite image taken by NASAs Terra mission in January 2020 shows the extent of wildfire burns on Australias Kangaroo Island. How heat and drought turned Australia into a tinderbox see the devastation of Australias summer of fire from space.

Four photos of Australia from space before and after the bushfires We pulled four before-and-after NASA satellite images and asked a bushfire researcher to reflect on the story they tell. Explosive Fire Activity in Australia. New South Wales has been worst hit.

Smoke from Australias 2019-2020 bushfires stimulated large algal blooms that could be seen from space Oct. NASAs Terra satellite captured this image of the fires and the smoke pouring off the edge of Australia and into the southern Pacific Ocean on Nov. 08 2019 using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer MODIS instrument onboard.

This crisis has been unfolding for years. Sentinel 2ESA The scope of the fires is hard to comprehend. There are several terms for the towering clouds that occasionally rise above the smoke plumes of wildfires and volcanic eruptions.