Exaggerated (5x) Plume Height (MISR) on 8/31/20 for the California Fires 2020

To view the data in 3D, click "Open in Scene Viewer" on right side of page. Date of Image: 8/31/2020 Date of Next Image: Unknown Summary: The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, provided this map of wildfire smoke plume heights for several wildfires in California, derived from data acquired by the MISR instrument, on board the NASA Terra satellite, on August 31, 2020. MISR carries nine fixed cameras, each of which views a scene from different angles over a period of about seven minutes. After accounting for true motion of the clouds due to wind, the angular parallax of the clouds between different views is used to derive the height of the smoke plumes. Suggested Use: These data contain plume height information for the August Complex and the Red Salmon Complex Fires as observed by MISR at approximately 12:15 pm local time on August 31, 2020. Plume height gives an indication of fire intensity and indicates whether the smoke is impacting air quality at ground-level. Observations of plume height are also important as an input to air quality models that predict where the smoke will go, and who it might affect downwind. The MISR plume heights in this map were produced using the MISR Interactive eXplorer (MINX) software. Satellite/Sensor: Terra/Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) Resolution: 550 meters horizontal resolution Credits: These data were captured during Terra orbit 110128. The smoke plume height calculation was performed using the MISR INteractive eXplorer (MINX) software tool, which is publicly available at https://github.com/nasa/MINX. MISR was built and is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Terra spacecraft is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. The MISR data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center Atmospheric Science Data Center, Hampton, Virginia. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.