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   August 10, 2022 - Widespread Fire and Smoke across Siberia   
      
      Fires in Russia   
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      As summer temperatures soar in Siberia, wildfires continue to consume   
      taiga and pump thick smoke into the atmosphere.   
      
      Oh August 5, 2022, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer   
      (MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a true-color image   
      showing many dozens of large fires burning across Siberia. Clusters of   
      fires can be seen both in Western and Northern Siberia. Heavy gray and   
      brown smoke pours from the western fires, blowing eastward. An   
      extremely thick blanket of smoke—so thick that it obscures the land   
      beneath from view—covers an area of about 240,000 square kilometers   
      (92,655 square miles). That is an area larger than Ghana, or almost as   
      large as the United Kingdom.   
      
      The large cluster of fires in Western Siberia are burning in   
      Khanty-Mansi autonomous area (Yugra). On August 9, 2022, the Russian   
      News Agency TASS reported that the area of active forest fires in Yugra   
      measures 84,082 hectares, with 20 of those fires encompassing 34,760   
      hectares. That is an increase of almost 1,000 hectares in 24 hours. The   
      Governor of the area was reported to ascribe the growth to abnormally   
      hot weather, lack of precipitation, frequent thunderstorms, and gusting   
      winds.   
      
      The cluster of fires in Northern Siberia are located primarily in   
      Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YNAO), with some also in northwestern   
      Krasnoyarsk Krai. YNAO sits extremely far north, with more than fifty   
      percent of the land located north of the Arctic Circle.   
      
      AK&M Information Agency reported on August 8 that, “According to   
      Avialesookhrana, a subordinate organization of the Federal Forestry   
      Agency, 297 forest fires were extinguished in 40 regions of Russia last   
      week, 1,417 fighters of the Aviation Security and ground forest   
      services of the interregional level were involved in extinguishing. The   
      main causes of forest fires: the human factor and thunderstorms, the   
      Federal Forestry Agency reported. The largest number of fires were   
      eliminated in: Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, KhMAO, the Republics   
      of Komi, Buryatia, Sakha (Yakutia), Altai, Krasnoyarsk, Kamchatka, Perm   
      Krai, Chelyabinsk Region.”   
      
      Image Facts   
      Satellite:  Aqua   
      Date Acquired: 8/5/2022   
      Resolutions:  1km (1.9 MB),  500m (6.1 MB),   
      Bands Used: 1,4,3   
      Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC   
      
      
      
   https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-08-10   
       
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