Smoke from fires in Siberia reached the USA
On July 31, 2019, the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that smoke from forest fires raging in Siberia (Russia) had already reached the United States and Canada. This is stated on the official website of the department.
At the same time, NASA refers to data obtained by the scientific tools Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite of instruments (OMPS) of the Suomi NPP satellite. It is noted that smoke from fires has already spread to Alaska (USA) and the western coast of North America, where it probably mixed with smoke from local forest fires.
It is clarified that in the period from July 23 to 30, NASA recorded 2019 sources of ignition in Russia, the smoke from which, according to calculations, was supposed to reach the United States and Canada July 262 - August 067, 31. As of July 1, 2019, the area of fires in Russia amounted to 30 million hectares, which roughly corresponds to the territory of Crimea.
By the way, recently we Reportedthat about 3 million hectares of forest burn in Siberia, and also that Delivery Russian Be-200s in the USA will begin in 2020-2021. We remind you that in 2017 from the Forest Institute named after Vladimir Sukachev (Krasnoyarsk) of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences informed the public that in the second half of the XNUMXst century, Siberia will begin to populate broad-leaved forests, accompanied by serious forest fires.
At the same time, NASA refers to data obtained by the scientific tools Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite of instruments (OMPS) of the Suomi NPP satellite. It is noted that smoke from fires has already spread to Alaska (USA) and the western coast of North America, where it probably mixed with smoke from local forest fires.
It is clarified that in the period from July 23 to 30, NASA recorded 2019 sources of ignition in Russia, the smoke from which, according to calculations, was supposed to reach the United States and Canada July 262 - August 067, 31. As of July 1, 2019, the area of fires in Russia amounted to 30 million hectares, which roughly corresponds to the territory of Crimea.
By the way, recently we Reportedthat about 3 million hectares of forest burn in Siberia, and also that Delivery Russian Be-200s in the USA will begin in 2020-2021. We remind you that in 2017 from the Forest Institute named after Vladimir Sukachev (Krasnoyarsk) of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences informed the public that in the second half of the XNUMXst century, Siberia will begin to populate broad-leaved forests, accompanied by serious forest fires.
- https://yandex.kz/collections/ и NASA
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