Australia Fires 2019 From Space

New South Wales has been worst hit.

Australia fires 2019 from space. After several fire-triggered clouds sprang up in quick succession on January 4. 16 2019 645 pm. We pulled four before-and-after NASA satellite images and asked a bushfire researcher to reflect on the story they tell.

Saturday November 09 2019. 2019 and the second on. NASAs Terra satellite captured this image of the fires and the smoke pouring off the edge of Australia and into the southern Pacific Ocean on Nov.

The raging inferno has led to the death of at least 24 people and half a billion animals to date. Meteorologist Ivar van der Velde of the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research in Leiden and colleagues first examined carbon monoxide data collected over southeastern Australia by the satellite-based instrument TROPOMI from November 2019 to January 2020 during the worst of the fires. Close to 11 million hectares 27 million acres have burned since September.

Images from a Maxar Technologies satellite in orbit show red flames visible from space as wildfires. This crisis has been unfolding for years. Daytime satellite views of the ground are equally if not more dramatic.

There are several terms for the towering clouds that occasionally rise above the smoke plumes of wildfires and volcanic eruptions. The astronaut pictures reveal the terrifying scale of bushfires that have plagued Australia since September 2019. Clarification 10th May 2021.

When Australias fire season begun in September 2019 nobody could have imaged it would turn out to be one of the worst seen in decades. Published online September 15 2021. NASAs Terra satellite captured this image of the fires and the smoke pouring off the edge of Australia and into the southern Pacific Ocean on Nov.