Ocean Color Image Gallery
California Smoke Over Pacific |
Large quantities of smoke from several destructive fires in California obscure the Pacific Ocean to the southwest of that state in the above 11 November 2018 Suomi-NPP/VIIRS composite. Fueled by drought conditions and strong winds, such fires could become more common as our planet continues to warm in response to our heavy dependence on greenhouse-gas-producing fossil fuels. Click on the above image to get a much larger (28.5 megabyte) version. |
