NPP Update - Siberia Forest Fires

It has been some time since I wrote about  NPP or now known as the S-NPP (Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership).    Forest fires in Siberia sent smoke across the Pacific Ocean where it was drifting over the U.S. and Canada.  One of the five devices on board this high tech satellite is the OMPS (Ozone Mapping Profiler Suite).  This device was used to track the smoke that was traveling such a long distance.

Here is the video from NASA about the forest fires from May, 2012.

  You must visit the NASA website to see more information;

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/fires/main/siberia-smoke.html

 
 For background information, and previous posts about NPP, please visit here;
http://climatedriver.blogspot.com/2011/11/npp-status-update.html
http://climatedriver.blogspot.com/2012/01/first-global-image-from-npp.htm  l

 The NPP Poster, gives a great basic visual explanation of the instruments on board
NPP Poster

Latest update Suomi NPP

This new image was released from data captured back on January 21 - 25. 

   The CrlS is one of five instruments called the Cross-track Infrared Sounder.   The image below is from the Nasa website: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/news/cris-operational.html

The image is from 3 days of captured data and the orange colors show very warm seas surface temperatures.  The information collected from this advanced instrument will aid scientists to study and record climate data to help improve weather forecasting.

Please enjoy the high resolution infrared image.. Credit NASA/NOAA