Monitoring fuel moisture content over the contiguous U.S. and Alaska based on VIIRS

Pedro Angel Jimenez1, John Schreck2, Thomas Brummet3, Bill Petzke3, Eric James4, Jason C. Knievel5 and Branko Kosovic1, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NCAR, Boulder, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)CU/CIRES and NOAA/GSL, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States