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Figure 7.4
Fires in Mongolia, 1996. (A) On May 2, 1996, dense smoke rises from several large fires that raged out of control for more than three weeks. A dying fire and associated black fire scar appear at the top right of the view (NASA photograph NM21-735-62). (B) Scattered fires appear in this east-looking view of the mountainous and forested landscape on the border between western Mongolia and the Russian Federation, May 11, 1996. A small sector of Lake Baikal appears on the left edge of the view (NASA photograph NM21-743-56). Two centers of biomass burning, one near the west end of Lake Baikal (lower left) and one south of the lake (center) appear as diffuse gray masses (the distance from the lake to the lower-left fires is about 150 km). Smoke appears less brilliant than the lines of cloud which dominate the top and lower right parts of the view. Westerly winds carry smoke from fires burning on higher forested ground (green). Lower-lying country is a semiarid steppe and appears as a gray-brown.
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