Facebook Smoke Animation (IMAGE)

Colorado State University

Facebook Smoke Animation

Caption

An animation illustrates Facebook users posting about wildfire smoke (indicated by red, yellow and orange). These posts are compared with standard satellite measurements of smoke in the atmosphere, and surface measurements of particles (colored circles), during August 2015.

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Bonne Ford/Colorado State University

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