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Fires at the Al Qayyarah oil field, Nineveh Governorate, between 18 July and 14 December, 2016

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Fires at the Al Qayyarah oil field, Nineveh Governorate, between 18 July and 14 December, 2016
Description
This map illustrates satellite-detected fires and smoke plumes at oil wells south of Mosul, and also east of Baiji, Iraq. The Mosul fires began with an initial fire at one or two wells on 8 May 2016, lasting less than one day, and intermittently burned in June. The current fire complex began on 3 July with daily fire detections occurring until about 12 July, when the fires greatly increased in number and continued to burn to the present at that scale. The fires east of Baiji have been active since early January 2016. The frequency of smoke plumes (in days) is symbolized in shades of red and yellow, and was calculated using daily MODIS satellite images collected between 18 July and 14 December, 2016. Note that as the plume dissipates then areas of thinner smoke are not detected in this process. The inset on the top right corner shows the thermal data from a Landsat image collected on 7 December, indicating the Mosul fires in white. The inset on the top left corner, from 6 December, shows the same area in false color, displaying the near infrared band in red. Additionally, precipitation data from NASA's IMERG algorithm was included to evaluate instances of rainfall intersecting the smoke plume. This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been validated in the field. Please send ground feedback to UNITAR - UNOSAT.
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UNOSAT
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Humanitarian Data Exchange
Temporal Coverage
2016-12-21
Date Issued
2016-12-27
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http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by-sa
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Public
Date Added
August 23, 2025
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The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from Humanitarian Data Exchange on 2026-01-15.

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    UNOSAT (2016). Fires at the Al Qayyarah oil field, Nineveh Governorate, between 18 July and 14 December, 2016. Humanitarian Data Exchange. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/a21f7a75-5ee7-438d-b75c-962cc4872820 (dataset)
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