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The image above shows AVHRR vegetation index for May 11-20, 1998

The NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Program

The business of data management has been transformed in the last decade—and not solely by computational progress.
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July 28, 2020
The icon of the First International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project

The Magic of Water

Soil moisture is one of the components of land-surface evapotranspiration, and is a required parameter for evaporation calculations.
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July 28, 2020
This false-color SeaWiFS image, acquired on October 6, 2002, shows a phytoplankton bloom off the California coast.

The Incredible Glowing Algae

Phytoplankton blooms occur in all the Earth’s oceans when nutrient and sunlight conditions are right.
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July 28, 2020
Prairie dogs, lemurs, and mandrinette hibiscus plants are just a few of the species affected by human activity.

The Human Footprint

Increased human population often leads to greater influence on the environment and sharper declines in species and ecosystems.
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July 28, 2020
The image above shows part of the Gridded Population of the World (GPW) collection from SEDAC in 2000.

The Human Equation

Hunting for elusive answers to a multitude of questions about humanity's role in global climate change.
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July 28, 2020
Periodic flooding in the Mississippi Valley can affect residents as far north as Minnesota and as far south as Louisiana. In May 2001, the Mississippi River flooded this house south of Red Wing, Minnesota.

The Flood Hunters

A new long-term archive of satellite data will help hydrologists monitor floods, allow aid agencies to pinpoint flood-prone regions, and provide information for modeling Earth's complex hydrologic cycles.
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July 28, 2020
The image above shows measurements of the boreal forest taken through a flux tower.

The Dirt on Carbon

The quiet forests of Canada may slowly be losing carbon, not from the trees themselves, but from the frozen soils underneath, where deep pools of carbon are locked within permafrost.
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July 28, 2020
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