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Fires in Algeria: Natural Hazards
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Fires in Algeria: Natural Hazards
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Fires burning in the Atlas Mountains on the northern coast of Algeria turned deadly in late August 2007. Several people were killed by forest fires that were driven rapidly across the landscape by sirocco winds (hot dry winds that blow from Africa's interior deserts toward the Mediterranean). According to news reports, thousands of soldiers were deployed to help battle the fires. Cooler weather and firefighting efforts brought many fires under control by August 31.
This image shows fires (red outlines) detected around the city of Skikda by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov (MODIS) on NASA's aqua.nasa.gov Aqua satellite on August 30, 2007. Smoke creates a thick haze over the Mediterranean Sea.
The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily images of the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov/subsets/?AER ONET_Blida western and rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov/subsets/?AER ONET_Lampedusa eastern Algerian coastline in additional resolutions.
NASA image courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center
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Fires burning in the Atlas Mountains on the northern coast of Algeria turned deadly in late August 2007. Several people were killed by forest fires that were driven rapidly across the landscape by sirocco winds (hot dry winds that blow from Africa's interior deserts toward the Mediterranean). According to news reports, thousands of soldiers were deployed to help battle the fires. Cooler weather and firefighting efforts brought many fires under control by August 31.
This image shows fires (red outlines) detected around the city of Skikda by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov (MODIS) on NASA's aqua.nasa.gov Aqua satellite on August 30, 2007. Smoke creates a thick haze over the Mediterranean Sea.
The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily images of the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov/subsets/?AER ONET_Blida western and rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov/subsets/?AER ONET_Lampedusa eastern Algerian coastline in additional resolutions.
NASA image courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center
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Where -- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Where -- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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What -- Atlas
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What -- Atlas
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What -- Aqua
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What -- Aqua
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Where -- Mediterranean Sea
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Where -- Mediterranean Sea
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Where -- Algeria
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Where -- Algeria
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Atlas
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Aqua
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Mediterranean Sea
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Mediterranean Sea
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Algeria
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algeria_AMO_2007242
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algeria_AMO_2007242
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gwilliam@archive.org
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gwilliam@archive.org
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2011-08-02 06:56:17
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2011-08-02 06:56:17
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2011-08-02 06:56:17
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 108/1/algeria_AMO_20 07242/algeria_AMO_20 07242_lrg.jpg
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file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 108/1/algeria_AMO_20 07242/algeria_AMO_20 07242_lrg.jpg
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algeria_AMO_2007242_ lrg.jpg
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2007-08-30
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Public Domain
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Public Domain
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2007
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