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 600×300 2048×1024 4096×2048 8192×4096

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

Vegetation Health Index

World , Vegetation Health Index (VHI): Current Week and One Year Ago

VHI of current year animation

Source: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/emb/vci/VH/vh_browseVH.php

Global Drought Monitoring

https://gdis-noaa.hub.arcgis.com/pages/drought-monitoring

https://spei.csic.es/map/maps.html

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/5dceec104a384df094e65af12a274959/

Global Soil Moisture

This graph does not auto-update. For additional monthly charts click on the link below graphic.

Source: https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Soilmst_Monitoring/gl_Soil-Moisture-Monthly.php

Global Near-Real-Time Monitoring of Soil Moisture

Operational monitoring of active and passive data gives information on systematic differences between model and satellite observations. The figure shows standard deviation of the difference between satellite observations and ECMWF model values for ASCAT soil moisture (m3.m-3). 

Source: https://smap.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/34/global-near-real-time-monitoring-of-soil-moisture/

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

As of 2012