Smoke over eastern Russia and northern Japan
Image over the Sea of Okhotsk 21 August 1998
From July to early October, Earth Probe TOMS detected smoke from fires in eastern Russia using the TOMS aerosol index. For most of this period, the smoke was essentially stationary with some southeast to east movement towards northern Japan. During the last two weeks, the smoke was transported towards North America. You can view smoke images of by following the links below. Since Earth Probe TOMS does not have full global coverage, these images were created by compositing 2 days worth of data. The largest amount of data comes from the date specified on the image. The links below indicate the last day of data used for each image.
1998
