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UV Aerosol Index News
Articles, resources, and announcements from UV Aerosol Index.
Spring 2025 has been an unusually active period for dust storms over the Southwestern U.S.
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Base corrected reflectance image acquired on Nov 12, 2024, with aerosol index overlaid with ground-based aerosol optical depth measurements.
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Pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) events (fire thunderstorms) caused by wildfires in western Canada were detected by the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) instrument July 19-24, 2024.
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For meteorologist David Peterson, Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) data are crucial for studying pyrocumulonimbus events.
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Image captured Nov 1, 2021, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite.
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Image captured on 10 April 2021, by the VIIRS instrument, aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite.
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Image captured on 15 March 2021, by the VIIRS instrument, aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite.
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Image captured on 28 March 2021, by the VIIRS instrument, aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-20 satellite.
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