... E., Hoff, R., Sachse, G., Barnet,C., Razenkov, I., and Wolf, W.: AIRS views of transport from 10-23 July 2004 Alaskan/Canadian fires: Correlation of AIRS CO andMODIS AOD and comparison of AIRS ... re-trieved from AIRS shows a maximum above 160ppb to theeast of southern Japan and confirms the export of pollution from Asia (Fig. 3a). However, clouds obscured large parts of the plume from satellite ... easily be tracked from space.As a result of the strong lifting of polluted air masses atthe eastern seaboard of Asia, the biggest chance of success-fully identifying such a pollution plume over...