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Alaska Fire/Smoke
June 30, 2005
Thursday
On Tuesday, June 27, Fairbanks was directly in the path of smoke
blown in from fires just north of Eagle. In the following days,
smoke blanketed the entire Interior, which led to an air quality
alert issued for the region by the Division of Air Quality of
the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC).
GINA, a facility at the Geophysical Institute, provides statewide
imagery for Alaska, updated in near-real-time, is available by
following the link "Alaskan Images Fire/Smoke" at http://www.gina.alaska.edu
Geographic Information Network
of Alaska (GINA) was established in 2001 as the University of
Alaska's mechanism for organizing and sharing diverse geospatial
data and technological capabilities.
According to a study just released
by the National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation
for Atmospheric Research, wildfires in Alaska and Canada in 2004
emitted about as much carbon monoxide as did human-related activities
in the continental United States during the same time period.
The team concluded that the
Alaskan and Canadian wildfires emitted about 30 teragrams of
carbon monoxide from June through August of last year. Because
of the wildfires, ground-level concentrations of ozone increased
by 25% or more in parts of the northern continental United States
and by 10% as far away as Europe.
Related News:
Wildfires major source of air pollution,
study says By LEE BOWMAN
- Wildfires that burned more than 11 million acres of Alaska
and Canada last summer put about as much carbon monoxide into
the atmosphere as did tailpipes and smokestacks in the United
States during the same period, according to a new study. - More...
Wednesday - June 29, 2005
Source of Photograph:
Geographic Information Network
of Alaska (GINA)
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