Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2022, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 93-105
Satellite observations of reed fire smoke on the Lower Volga
S.S. Shinkarenko
1, 2 , S.А. Bartalev
1 , A.N. Berdengalieva
2 1 Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
2 Federal Scientific Center of Agroecology, Complex Meliorations and Agroforestry RAS , Volgograd, Russia
Accepted: 15.02.2022
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2022-19-2-93-105
The article analyzes the conditions of burning wetlands in the Volga Delta and establishes the prerequisites for a record smoke from reed fires in October 2021. A fire in the eastern part of the delta in the Atyrau Region of Kazakhstan caused a smoke plume about 700 km long, recorded by a weather station In Volgograd. MODIS and TROPOMI data made it possible to identify atmospheric smoke and establish the location of the fire in the vicinity of the village of Kurmangazy (Ganyushkino) in the Atyrau Region. Previously, fires with extended smoke plumes were observed only in 2015 and 2019, characterized by low flood levels and average annual water discharges. The most intense burning was observed on the front edge of the Volga Delta and in its eastern part during low water levels with moderate wind speeds up to 5–6 m/s. The burning intensity in the Volga Delta is associated with hydrological conditions especially pronounced in the summer-autumn period. The correlation coefficient of the Fire Radiative Power (FRP) normalized to the pixel area was –0.88 for the total FRP for the year and –0.77 for the average FRP per fire. The trends of hydrological changes in recent decades in the Volga Delta are characterized by a decrease in water levels due to a drop in the level of the Caspian Sea, which allows us to expect an intensification of reed fires here.
Keywords: Lower Volga, reed fire, remote sensing, MODIS, FRP
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