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Outdoor evening image of a fiery methane plume coming out of a tall black pipe.

U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center Focus of Workshop at AMS Annual Meeting

A workshop at the 2024 American Meteorological Society (AMS) meeting helped attendees maximize their use of openly available data offered through the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center.

Blog

Feb. 14, 2024

Wildfires in the Valparaiso Region, Chile

Image captured Feb 3, 2024, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite.

Worldview Image of the Week

Feb. 8, 2024

Image of a methane plume overlaid on a topo map; highest methane concentrations are in southeast corner (yellow area); rest of plume is low concentrations (purple)

NASA EMIT Mapping Methane Plumes: Data Tutorial Workshop

This 2-hour virtual workshop on March 14, 2024, demonstrates how to use methane data products from NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission.

Event

Feb. 7, 2024

This is a satellite view of wildfires across a portion of the Amazon Rainforest. The image shows popcorn clouds and wispy streaks of fire smoke over the forest and winding Amazon River. Overlayed across the image are hundreds of small red dots to mark the location of fires identified by satellite sensors.

Improving Fire Detection in the Amazon

NASA researchers are tweaking algorithms and combining data from multiple satellites to track tropical forest fires in Brazil.

Feature Article

Feb. 1, 2024

An artist's conception of the TROPICS SmallSat constellation in space over a tropical cyclone

Provisional TROPICS Data Now Available

Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of SmallSats (TROPICS) Pathfinder data released.

Feature Article

Jan. 23, 2024

A color topographical map of Okmok volcano with labels for its caldera, cinder cones, and other features.

Keeping a Close Eye on Distant and Active Volcanoes

A NASA-funded study used cloud-based synthetic aperture radar data to measure changes in volcanoes in the remote Aleutian Islands.

Feature Article

Jan. 19, 2024

True-color reflectance image of the Carrizozo Volcanic Field in New Mexico on 13 January 2024 from the MSI instrument aboard the Sentinel-2A satellite

Carrizozo Volcanic Field, New Mexico

Image captured on Jan 13, 2024, by the MSI instrument aboard the ESA (European Space Agency) Sentinel-2A satellite.

Worldview Image of the Week

Jan. 18, 2024

$Diffraction grating within the TEMPO instrument separates the light into different wavelengths to discern the unique patterns of the various pollutants.$

New Instrument Provides Hourly Measurements of Atmospheric Pollutants

NASA's Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of POllution (TEMPO) instrument will revolutionize air quality monitoring over North America.

Feature Article

Jan. 11, 2024

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