Fires in Spain and Portugal
Fires in Spain and Portugal
10August 2006
In northwestern Spain and Portugal dozens of fires were racing through dryforests in early August 2006. This image of the area was captured by theModerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)on NASAs Terra satellite on 9 August 2006. Places where MODIS detected actively burning firesare marked in red. Thick smoke spreads out in a gray-brown plume to the west.Windy, dry weather was making the fires difficult to contain. According to newsreports, many of the fires in Spain appear to have been set by arsonists.
TERRA
9 August 2006 
The high-resolution images provided above have a spatial resolution of 250 meters perpixel.
(source: EarthObservatory)
See also following articles
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Los pirómanos son enfermos mentales que ignoran las consecuencias de sus actos (published by www.elcorreogallego.es, 10 August 2006)
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El Colegio de Biólogos reclama “cambio de actitud” social y en la ley forestal (published by www.elcorreogallego.es, 10 August 2006)
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Un profesor experto en incendios forestales asegura que “Galicia en su conjunto es una sociedad de alto riesgo” (published by www.elcorreogallego.es, 10 August 2006)
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Galicia alcanza el récord de incendios forestales con 158 (published by www.lavanguardia.es, 9 August 2006)
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Rey habla con Touriño para interesarse por incendios forestales (published by actualidad.terra.es, 9 August 2006)
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Narbona apunta a forestales resentidos como autores de los incendios en Galicia (published by www.eldiariomontanes.es, 9 August 2006)
See also:
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Heatwave in Western Europe (source: Earth Observatory)
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI):
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite also enhanced the previous image from 9 August 2006 by including the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) which is strongly correlated to surface temperatures and surface moisture status.
ECPC Fire Weather Forecast:
The GFMC displays selected and daily updated Experimental Climate Prediction Center (ECPC) Fire Weather Forecasts for Europe. These examples allow a quicklook and provide daily and weekly total forecasts. For background information refer to the ECPC products description page.
FWI forecast for the next 36 hrs 
FWI forecast for the next week 
Surface temperatures forecast for the next week 
Precipitation amount forecast for the next week 
Relative humidity forecast for the next week 
Windspeed forecast for the next week
(Source: ECPC Fire Weather Index Forecast)
The forecast indicates no extreme fire danger for Galicia. The current fire danger, however, is due to unusually high day temperatures, low precipitation and low relative humidity
Formore details on fires in Spain:
- Statistical database for Spain
