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Wildfire on the Kamchatka Peninsula

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Jun 08, 2016
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Wildfire on the Kamchatka Peninsula
June 7, 2016

On June 7, 2016, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi-NPP satellite captured this natural-color image of a large wildfire burning in Russia near the west coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Red outlines indicate hot spots where VIIRS detected warm surface temperatures associated with fires. Smoke from the wildfire was drawn into the circulation of a weak area of low pressure over the Sea of Okhotsk, the University of Wisconsin CIMSS satellite blog noted. Beneath the smoke, a deck of low-level stratus cloud is also visible.

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NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response using Suomi NPP data. Caption by Adam Voiland.

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