Land, Fire & Ice

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LAND

Global Fire Maps 10 Day

Fire Map: 10 Day Segments

Image updates approximately every 10 days and represents the previous 10 days (approximately) from the extracted data from the MODIS Rapid Response System Global Fire Maps :

Static links for latest firemaps: Dates 600x300 2048x1024 4096x2048 8192x4096

Source: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/firemaps/

Drought Monitoring

Global Drought Monitoring

1 month average (data updated on the 16th of each month):

Source: UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics

3 month average (image updates on the 16th of each month):

Source: UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics

6 month average (image updates on the 16th of each month):

Source: UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics

12 month average (image updates on the 16th of each month):

Source: UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics

24 month average (image updates on the 16th of each month):

Source: UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics

36 month average (image updates on the 16th of each month):

Source: UCL Department of Space & Climate Physics

Monthly Global Soil Moisture [no auto update at this time]

Source: http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/Soilmst_Monitoring/

Snow Cover

Note: Global warming is increasing the moisture content of the atmosphere due to warmer oceans. This could manifest as an increase in snow extent. The warmer atmospheric temperatures altering season lengths should melt the snow faster in the spring. The data does indicate this to be true. We will add to this section if direct attribution studies are conducted.

Fall Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent