Central Africa: 8 September 2000

Forest and Wildland Fires inCentral-Western Africa

8 September 2000

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Several active fire signals were recorded by OSEI with the NOAA-14 POES AVHRR HRPT satellite on 6 September 2000 in central-western Africa.

Scattered heat signatures and smoke plumes from areas of fire burning in Angola, Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo .
(Source: NOAA/OSEI)

A new TOMS Global Aerosol Hot Spots Page provides screened close-ups of regions with active fires and smoke emissions.

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2 September 2000

3 September 2000

4 September 2000

5 September 2000

Smoke from vegetation fires in Africa
NOTE: The surface background image used here is NOT part of the TOMS aerosol index retrieval.
(Source: TOMS Global Aerosol Hot Spots Page)

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