• The amount of aerosols was unusually high in 2007, and unusually low in 2008. (nasa.gov)
  • However, some aerosols also absorb light, which can result in a local warming effect, depending on the amount of aerosols, their altitude, and the brightness of the underlying (Earth's) surface at the place in question. (oceansciences.org)
  • Fertilizer production will almost certainly keep growing to keep pace with human population, but the amount of aerosols created as a result depends on many factors, including air temperature, precipitation, season, time of day, wind patterns and of course the other needed ingredients from industrial or natural sources. (sonnenseite.com)
  • NASA also said this imaging was valuable for observing Saturn's atmosphere. (scrippsnews.com)
  • The satellite carried equipment to help scientists understand how the sun and particles of matter in the atmosphere called aerosols affect Earth's climate. (latimes.com)
  • Fires that we observed in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho burned hundreds of thousands of acres and injected many millions of tons of gases and aerosols into the atmosphere. (bnl.gov)
  • Forty years ago, scientists began developing instruments that could monitor Earth's ozone layer by observing how the atmosphere scattered certain wavelengths of ultraviolet (UV) light. (nasa.gov)
  • The denser the aerosol level in the atmosphere, the darker the shade of orange. (nasa.gov)
  • Scientists monitor pyrocumulus clouds closely because they can inject smoke and pollutants high into the atmosphere and affect air quality over a broad area. (nasa.gov)
  • When scientists look at Jupiter's upper atmosphere in infrared light, they see the region above the equator heating and cooling over a roughly four-year cycle. (nasa.gov)
  • The clouds themselves are made up of ice particles and some scientists worry that a global cumulative effect might be to trap heat in the atmosphere. (theregister.com)
  • Over the past week, NASA satellites have observed an extraordinary amount of smoke injected into the atmosphere from the Australian fires and its subsequent eastward dispersal. (smh.com.au)
  • In recent years, scientists have been using cutting-edge computer models of the atmosphere to ask a fascinating question: What would have happened to the ozone layer if nations had done nothing to limit the release of CFCs? (nasa.gov)
  • Larger aerosol particles in the atmosphere interact with and absorb some of the radiation, causing the atmosphere to warm. (nasa.gov)
  • Quick looks by a special CATS-eye attached to the International Space Station will help scientists catalog and track particles in Earth's atmosphere and act as a pathfinder for a new satellite planned for 2021. (nasa.gov)
  • The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations ( CALIPSO ) satellite has made more than 3 billion soundings of the atmosphere since 2006. (nasa.gov)
  • Solar geoengineering aims to block the sun's warming effect by pumping aerosols into the high atmosphere. (climatechangenews.com)
  • The idea of blocking the sun's warming effect by pumping aerosols into the high atmosphere - a technology known as solar radiation management (SRM) - was once of the realm of science fiction. (climatechangenews.com)
  • The paper's abstract underscores that major gaps exist in the understanding of the physicochemical pathways that lead to aerosol growth in the atmosphere and that these pathways need to be considered by models. (notrickszone.com)
  • The Leibniz press release adds that aerosol particles in the atmosphere influence global climate because they reflect sunlight. (notrickszone.com)
  • Human activity is throwing up lots of aerosols (industry, agriculture, transportation, etc.) into the atmosphere and so are contributing to blocked sunlight. (notrickszone.com)
  • I think the main area of uncertainty in the Svensmark Hypothesis is how to get from the small aerosols initiated by muons (from the particl shower when a cosmic ray hits the upper atmosphere) to a size big enough to be a cloud condensation nucleus. (notrickszone.com)
  • Case Study: How Do Carbon Monoxide and Aerosol Concentrations Affect Earth's Atmosphere? (carleton.edu)
  • In this chapter, you will explore the temporal and spatial patterns of aerosol and carbon monoxide concentrations in the atmosphere to discover and describe the interactions between them. (carleton.edu)
  • CATS will be installed on the Japanese Experiment Module-Exposed Facility (JEM-EF) and will demonstrate the utility of state-of-the-art multi-wavelength laser technology to study aerosol distribution and transport in the atmosphere. (universetoday.com)
  • This will also allow researchers to differentiate between particle size and measure the horizontal and vertical distribution of aerosol particles in the atmosphere. (universetoday.com)
  • Clouds (masses of water drops or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere) and aerosols (tiny, airborne solid and liquid particles) play important roles in earth's climate and interact with each other, and the ocean, in complex ways. (oceansciences.org)
  • One of the PACE polarimeters will be focused on characterizing aerosols in the atmosphere. (oceansciences.org)
  • However, as a basic overview, as light from the sun enters the earth's atmosphere, aerosols scatter the Sun's light, which results in a local cooling effect. (oceansciences.org)
  • However because the lifetimes of aerosols in the atmosphere are very short compared to greenhouse gases, and because aerosols vary a lot over time and from place-to-place, it is not correct to say that aerosols cancel out the effects of greenhouse gases. (oceansciences.org)
  • Inorganic aerosols are mainly produced when sulfur dioxide reacts with water vapor to form gaseous sulfuric acid and various salts (often through an oxidation reaction in the clouds), which are then thought to experience hygroscopic growth and coagulation and then shrink through evaporation. (wikipedia.org)
  • The patchiness is reminiscent of large-scale planetary waves in the stratospheric aerosols high above the main clouds, potentially similar to those seen in early Webb NIRCam observations of Jupiter,' NASA said. (scrippsnews.com)
  • This is possibly due to stratospheric aerosols high above the main clouds. (scrippsnews.com)
  • But in this case, the clouds over Australia were found to be so far from land that it's difficult to point to aerosols as the cause, Garay said. (livescience.com)
  • CAMP2Ex involves collaborators from government agencies and universities across the United States, the Philippines, Japan, and Europe all working together to better understand fundamental processes between clouds and aerosols that drive climate and weather across the globe. (nasa.gov)
  • While it lacks some precision, it has the benefit of seeing aerosols over and around clouds. (nasa.gov)
  • When the air over the Amazon is clear, the clouds that form over the forest are so like maritime clouds that scientists have referred to the Amazon as "the Green Ocean. (nasa.gov)
  • The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites measures the shortwave radiation reflected and longwave radiation emitted into space accurately enough for scientists to determine the Earth's total radiation budget. (nasa.gov)
  • Other NASA instruments monitor changes in other aspects of the Earth's climate system-such as clouds, aerosol particles, and surface reflectivity-and scientists are examining their many interactions with the radiation budget. (nasa.gov)
  • We're going to do operational Earth science that's new, looking at aerosols, pollution and clouds and real-time inputs to global climate models," said Matthew McGill, principal investigator for the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System ( CATS ) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. CATS will also help show NASA how to do low-cost, fast-turnaround payloads on station. (nasa.gov)
  • These measurements, in combination with atmospheric measurements such as air temperature, precipitation and clouds, can help scientists understand the ocean's impact on weather and climate and the subsequent impacts on life here on Earth. (strategies.org)
  • The mission has led to scientific advances in measuring changes in the mass of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, polar sea ice thickness, vegetation-canopy heights, and the heights of clouds and aerosols. (spacearchive.info)
  • According to a Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research press release , light causes the aerosols to grow in size and have an impact on clouds and climate. (notrickszone.com)
  • Learn more in the resources listed below about how PACE will explore clouds and aerosols, as well as use these data to help make better estimates of what is going on in the ocean. (oceansciences.org)
  • Sometimes, the artificial clouds are laid so thickly as to make the otherwise blue San Diego sky fully overcast with toxic chemical aerosols. (geoengineeringwatch.org)
  • NASA will launch satellite technology next month that scientists say will provide a clearer understanding of how solar energy and aerosols affect Earth's climate . (cleantechies.com)
  • And sometimes, aerosols are produced from photochemical decomposition of COS (carbonyl sulfide), or when solid sulfates in the sea salt spray can react with gypsum dust particles). (wikipedia.org)
  • Scientists said the new instruments would have been able to distinguish more accurately than ever the difference between such natural particles as desert dust, and particles from human activities such as burning coal and using nitrate fertilizers. (latimes.com)
  • Twenty years after starting those measurements, scientists figured out that they could use the same observations to detect UV-absorbing aerosols in the air, such as volcanic ash, dust, and smoke. (nasa.gov)
  • The aerosol index offers a way to see the long reach of forest fires and dust storms. (nasa.gov)
  • Dust is part of the family of aerosols-suspended particles or molecules in the air-which includes water vapor and soot from coal combustion. (ieee.org)
  • Combining these different wavelength images allows the determination of physical quantities like ozone, aerosols, dust and volcanic ash, cloud height, or vegetation cover. (nasa.gov)
  • The fundamental data from CATS will tell us if something is there, and then take ratios of different readings to tell us if it's ice, water or aerosols, and if it is an aerosol, is it dust, smoke or pollution. (nasa.gov)
  • After cracking open a tube of moon rocks and dust that had been sealed for 50 years, scientists have been in a position to grow plants in this lunar soil (opens in new tab) pattern. (seriefringe.com)
  • Scientists recently used NASA satellites to track a cloud of dust up to 2,000 km long as it left Asia, drifted across the Pacific Ocean, and traversed North America from Alaska to Florida, raining dust and possibly pollutants over the continent. (flutrackers.com)
  • This was massive,' said Jay Herman, principal investigator for aerosols for NASA's T otal O zone M apping S pectrometer ( TOMS ), a satellite-based instrument commonly used by scientists to track aerosols (tiny airborne particles like dust or smoke). (flutrackers.com)
  • Dust will affect climate and, at the same time, climate change will affect dust," said lead author Hongbin Yu , an associate research scientist at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), a joint center of the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. (sonnenseite.com)
  • Yu and his colleagues analyzed dust transport estimates based on data collected by NASA's Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) satellite between 2007 and 2013. (sonnenseite.com)
  • Although the seven-year data record is too short to make conclusions about long-term trends, it is an important step toward understanding how dust and other windborne particles, or aerosols, behave as they move across the ocean. (sonnenseite.com)
  • The goal of CATS is to study the distribution of tiny particles of dust and air contaminants known as aerosols. (universetoday.com)
  • In parts of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, aerosols or their precursors come mainly from desert dust, sea spray or wildfires. (sonnenseite.com)
  • BBOP focuses on aerosols-solid particles or liquid droplets in the air-measuring their size, optical properties, cloud condensation effects, and chemical composition. (bnl.gov)
  • On Friday, NASA published a map of the Earth that showcased the current ebbs and flows of aerosols, which are solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in air. (inverse.com)
  • Aerosols, unlike gases, are solid particles that are very, very small-so small that they become airborne. (carleton.edu)
  • It then combines with pollutants from combustion - mainly nitrogen oxides and sulfates from vehicles, power plants and industrial processes - to create tiny solid particles, or aerosols, no more than 2.5 micrometers across, about 1/30 the width of a human hair. (sonnenseite.com)
  • There's a lot to get excited about on an airborne science campaign like the Cloud, Aerosol, and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP 2 Ex). (nasa.gov)
  • NASA is sending five airborne campaigns across the United States in 2020 to investigate fundamental processes that ultimately impact human lives and the environment, from snowstorms along the East Coast to ocean eddies off the coast of San Francisco. (nasa.gov)
  • The densest airborne aerosols appear as deep red-orange pixels on the map and line up roughly with the darkest tan layers on the MODIS image. (nasa.gov)
  • Sample data from the Cloud Physics Lidar - a predecessor of CATS - over the Western Atlantic is representative of airborne lidar data, showing cloud height and internal structure and boundary layer aerosol. (nasa.gov)
  • Image above: Shown here is Chip Trepte, CALIPSO Project Scientist. (nasa.gov)
  • Large and numerous pyrocumulonimbus events are relatively rare - especially at this scale,' Chip Trepte, a project scientist from research body CALIPSO at NASA's Langley Research Centre said. (smh.com.au)
  • We need a record of measurements to understand whether or not there is a fairly robust, fairly consistent pattern to this aerosol transport," said Chip Trepte, project scientist for CALIPSO at NASA's Langley Research Center, who was not involved in the study. (sonnenseite.com)
  • The aerosol scale (yellow to dark reddish-brown) indicates the relative amount of particles that absorb sunlight. (nasa.gov)
  • Aerosols absorb or reflect radiation, either warming or cooling regions of the earth. (ieee.org)
  • Now, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have developed a new model for understanding Jupiter's QQO, which could lead to a refined understanding of Earth's own climate. (nasa.gov)
  • Unlike personal cameras, EPIC will take images in 10 very narrow wavelength ranges,' said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. (nasa.gov)
  • ICESat has been a tremendous scientific success," said Jay Zwally, ICESat's project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "It has provided detailed information on how the Earth's polar ice masses are changing with climate warming, as needed for government policy decisions. (spacearchive.info)
  • Developed by research scientist Matt McGill at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland, CATS is slated to head to the International Space Station later this year on September 12th aboard SpaceX's CRS-5 flight of the Dragon spacecraft. (universetoday.com)
  • NASA hopes to, some day, be able to better identify different types of phytoplankton from orbit through hyperspectral instruments designed specifically for ocean-color remote sensing," said Norman Kuring, an ocean scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. (nasa.gov)
  • Contrails are believed to be a major source of pollution," said Rich Moore , a research scientist in NASA's Langley Aerosol Research Group Experiment. (theregister.com)
  • The UV index is particularly well suited to tracking smoke from pyrocumulonimbus events, according to NASA Goddard research scientist Colin Seftor, as the higher the smoke plume, the larger the aerosol index value. (smh.com.au)
  • In January, the American Meteorological Society, known as AMS, will honor Professor Jeff Collett, Senior Research Scientist Paul DeMott and Associate Professor Elizabeth Barnes. (colostate.edu)
  • Back row, from left to right: Senior Research Scientist Paul DeMott, Professor and Department Head Jeff Collett and University Distinguished Professor Sonia Kreidenweis. (colostate.edu)
  • He is currently an associate research scientist employed by the Florida Space Institute at the University of Central Florida (UCF). (ucf.edu)
  • He came to Verisk from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University where, as a postdoctoral research scientist, he collaborated with the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies to develop the next generation of global tropical cyclone models. (air-worldwide.com)
  • Prior to that work, Jeff was employed as a postdoctoral research scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD studying the simulated impacts of aerosols on global tropical cyclone development. (air-worldwide.com)
  • Aerosol means particles or droplets dissolved in air. (nasa.gov)
  • Such an increase in sulfate aerosol emissions had a variety of effects. (wikipedia.org)
  • Research from NASA over the past decade has shown that using sustainable aviation fuels can cut particle emissions, and efforts are focused on matching the performance of conventional fuel without contributing more carbon dioxide. (theregister.com)
  • If industrial carbon dioxide emissions continue unabated, atmospheric concentrations of CO2 could by 2100 reach levels not seen in at least 30 million years , when Earth's average temperature was 25 to 30 degrees F warmer than today, according to an analysis by a U.S. scientist. (cleantechies.com)
  • The map displays black carbon particles in red, which NASA describes as aerosols released by fires or from vehicle and factory emissions. (inverse.com)
  • The aerosols form mainly downwind of farming areas, in densely populated places where farm emissions combine through a series of chemical reactions with those of cars, trucks and other sources. (sonnenseite.com)
  • The fact that agricultural emissions must combine with other pollutants to make aerosols "is good news," said Bauer. (sonnenseite.com)
  • Most projections say that tighter regulation, cleaner sources of electricity and higher-mileage vehicles will cut industrial emissions enough by the end of this century that farm emissions will be starved of the other ingredients necessary to create aerosols. (sonnenseite.com)
  • NASA NEO, Global Aerosol Optical Thickness concentrations acquired using the MODIS sensor, May 2010. (carleton.edu)
  • Two sources of environmental data were used as input to the surfacing algorithm, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Air Quality System (AQS) PM2.5 in-situ data and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aerosol optical depth remotely sensed data. (cdc.gov)
  • I have been most fortunate to be able to follow that passion from childhood into my career at NASA working with satellites. (nasa.gov)
  • NASA satellites show smoke has travelled more than 6500 kilometres away from Australia, with some of it reaching Chile, where hazy skies and colourful sunsets have been reported. (smh.com.au)
  • Currently, to get an entire Earth view, scientists have to piece together images from satellites in orbit. (nasa.gov)
  • Have you ever wondered how NASA Earth observing satellites are able to ground truth their data? (globe.gov)
  • It uses Earth science data from a variety of sensors on NASA Earth observing satellites to measure physical oceanography parameters such as ocean currents, ocean winds, sea surface height and sea surface temperature. (strategies.org)
  • NASA satellites and their unique view from space are helping to unveil the vast and ever-changing ocean. (strategies.org)
  • Major volcanic eruptions have an overwhelming effect on sulfate aerosol concentrations in the years when they occur: eruptions ranking 4 or greater on the Volcanic Explosivity Index inject SO2 and water vapor directly into the stratosphere, where they react to create sulfate aerosol plumes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Inside the wildfire plumes where scientists measure aerosol changes, the smoke itself takes on an eerie, orange glow. (bnl.gov)
  • While aerosols are often unseen, humans breathe in millions of these ubiquitous specks of matter and their presence and patterns are of great importance to scientists, especially as they monitor the behavior of wildfires and the emergence of carbon black plumes. (inverse.com)
  • Stratospheric aerosol injection is a proposed method of solar geoengineering (or solar radiation modification) to reduce global warming. (wikipedia.org)
  • It appears that stratospheric aerosol injection, at a moderate intensity, could counter most changes to temperature and precipitation, take effect rapidly, have low direct implementation costs, and be reversible in its direct climatic effects. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that it "is the most-researched [solar geoengineering] method, with high agreement that it could limit warming to below 1.5 °C (2.7 °F)." However, like other solar geoengineering approaches, stratospheric aerosol injection would do so imperfectly and other effects are possible, particularly if used in a suboptimal manner. (wikipedia.org)
  • Read more in tomorrow's Image of the Day about other ways the July 2014 fires and aerosols were monitored from space. (nasa.gov)
  • Scientists use the amount of smoke and fires in the Amazon as an indicator of how much of the Amazon was cleared or degraded each year, but the burning has other impacts. (nasa.gov)
  • However, before the Industrial Revolution, dimethyl sulfide pathway was the largest contributor to sulfate aerosol concentrations in a more average year with no major volcanic activity. (wikipedia.org)
  • The new and up to now unknown processes may be the reason why the atmospheric chemistry and physics of aerosol concentrations are often underestimated in models. (notrickszone.com)
  • Unlike CO, aerosols are not invisible, even though they may be difficult or impossible to see at low concentrations. (carleton.edu)
  • I am the Project Scientist as well as the Deputy PI. (nasa.gov)
  • In scientific terms, the image shows aerosol absorption optical depth, which is a measure of how much the smoke particles are absorbing and attenuating incoming sunlight. (nasa.gov)
  • The net direct effect of this scattering and absorption by aerosols is cooling, when averaged across the globe. (oceansciences.org)
  • Any newly discovered moons could help scientists put together a more complete picture of the current system of Saturn, as well as its past,' NASA said. (scrippsnews.com)
  • The instrumentation that will fly on NASA's ER-2 high-altitude aircraft and P-3 cloud-sampling aircraft is a significant advancement since then, making now an opportune time to close the knowledge gap on snowstorms and help scientists improve how they interpret satellite data and incorporate them into weather forecasting models. (nasa.gov)
  • I saw CALIPSO as a revolutionary step that could be taken to improve our understanding of aerosols and their effects on weather, air quality and climate change. (nasa.gov)
  • CATS will provide continuity for CALIPSO data and help bridge the gap until the 2021 launch of the Aerosol-Cloud-Ecosystems ( ACE ) mission. (nasa.gov)
  • This represents a vast improvement in power requirements and thermal capabilities over a similar instrument currently in service aboard the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) Earth remote sensing spacecraft. (universetoday.com)
  • These chemicals, also known by the trade name Freon, were common refrigerants and widely used in aerosol spray cans prior to the Montreal Protocol. (nasa.gov)
  • Meanwhile, hurricanes and tropical storms, like those affecting Hawaii , South Korea, and Japan, launch aerosols through sea spray, as evident in the concentrated swirls of light blue. (inverse.com)
  • Like the weakening spray from an aerosol can, the eruption rate declines exponentially. (nasa.gov)
  • Such knowledge is critical in understanding the path and circulation of aerosols and pollutants worldwide. (universetoday.com)
  • Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are now used in refrigerants, aerosol sprays and other goods -- but there are many concerns about their use, particularly regarding their environmental effects. (naturalnews.com)
  • Sulfate aerosols can be anthropogenic (through the combustion of fossil fuels with a high sulfur content, primarily coal and certain less-refined fuels, like aviation and bunker fuel), biogenic from hydrosphere and biosphere, geological via volcanoes or weather-driven from wildfires and other natural combustion events. (wikipedia.org)
  • The smoke above these wildfires breaks down into two main components: aerosols and gases. (bnl.gov)
  • I'm working on my master's in atmospheric science at Ateneo [de Manila University], and for my thesis with the Manila Observatory I'm looking at the effects that urban cities have on the vertical mixing of aerosols, heat, and moisture over what we call the boundary layer. (nasa.gov)
  • Secondly, I'm thankful for the openness of the scientists, specifically Bob Holz and Ralph Kuehn from University of Wisconsin for letting me do the initial analysis for the convective boundary layer height for the HSRL [High Spectral Resolution Lidar]. (nasa.gov)
  • Just the dedicated data link to the nearest NASA facility, GSFC in Maryland, is a big expense. (joannenova.com.au)
  • All of these resources, and more, can also be found on the SVS website at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/forEducators . (strategies.org)
  • In mid-July 2014, the skies were ripe with aerosols, according to Colin Seftor of the OMPS science team at NASA. (nasa.gov)
  • NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using Suomi NPP OMPS data provided courtesy of Colin Seftor (SSAI). (nasa.gov)
  • Its full disk images taken in 10 different wavelengths will supply unprecedented observations helping to provide global insights into Earth's weather and climate, data which complements NASA and NOAA's larger missions. (nasa.gov)
  • It also hosts NASA-funded secondary sensors for Earth and space science observations. (nasa.gov)
  • This visualization shows sea surface salinity observations (September 2011-September 2014) from the Aquarius/SAC-D mission, a collaboration between NASA and the Space Agency of Argentina. (strategies.org)
  • For scientists to understand climate change, they must also determine what drives the changes within the Earth's radiation budget. (nasa.gov)
  • The Earth's Radiation Budget" NASA Science . (nasa.gov)
  • When scientists first noticed the hole that had formed in the ozone layer, many believed that chloro-fluorocarbons (CFCs) were the cause. (naturalnews.com)
  • Scientists have simulated what the ozone hole would look like in 2065 had chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) never been regulated. (nasa.gov)
  • Led by NASA Goddard scientist Paul Newman, a team of atmospheric chemists simulated 'what might have been' if chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and similar ozone-depleting chemicals were not banned through the Montreal Protocol. (nasa.gov)
  • This means that aerosols have offset part of the positive forcing (warming) due to greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). (oceansciences.org)
  • This DVD features visualizations from the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS). (strategies.org)
  • Join NASA visualizer Kel Elkins in NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio as he shares insights into the creation of three of the visualizations included on the DVD. (strategies.org)
  • With these measurements, researchers can examine the movement of aerosols over time and space, and even make some general assessments of trends. (nasa.gov)
  • The latest gap is revealed by an experiment by an international team of scientists that shows evidence of a new mechanism where light causes atmospheric aerosols to increase in size. (notrickszone.com)
  • Si Thompson ay co-mission scientist para sa NASA noong 1997 DC-8 SINEX (SASS Ozone at Nitrogen Oxides Experiment) at PI para sa SHADOZ (Southern Hemisphere Karagdagang Ozonesondes) na gumamit ng mga instrumento na nasa hangin tulad ng weather balloons na nagdadala ng mga ozonesonde na pakete upang masukat ang halumigmig, temperatura at iba pang atmospera mga kadahilanan. (wikipedia.org)
  • A new incendiary blog by Dr. Duane Thresher and Dr. Claudia Kubatzki unleashes on NASA Goddard Institute (one of the two main motherlodes of climate activism), calling for them to be defunded because they are "ignoble", with "herds of do-gooders", and "NASA GISS is a monument to bad science that truly should be torn down. (joannenova.com.au)
  • This is not against fertilizer - there are many places, including Africa, that need more of it," said lead author Susanne Bauer, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. (sonnenseite.com)
  • The skies over Northern India, filled with a thick layer of aerosol particles along the southern edge of the Himalayan Mountains. (carleton.edu)
  • The smoke is expected to make at least one full circuit around the globe, returning once again to the skies over Australia,' NASA said. (smh.com.au)
  • However, as of 2021, there has been little research and existing natural aerosols in the stratosphere are not well understood. (wikipedia.org)
  • NASA image created by Jesse Allen, based on OMI aerosol data provided by Omar Torres and Changwoo Ahn (Hampton University). (nasa.gov)
  • This striking Jovian vista was created by citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA's Juno spacecraft. (nasa.gov)
  • Scientists hope the data collected will determine if sustainable aviation fuel will help reduce the formation of contrails. (theregister.com)
  • The smoke has been tracked by satellite data used to create an ultraviolet aerosol index. (smh.com.au)
  • Using ICESat data, scientists identified a network of lakes beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. (spacearchive.info)
  • Scientists from the University of Iceland's Institute of Earth Sciences have estimated the thickness of the lava field based on data from surveillance flights. (nasa.gov)
  • Scientists report that satellite data has now revealed a slight shrinking of the ozone hole this year. (slashgear.com)
  • NASA revealed this data late last week. (slashgear.com)
  • Scientists are quick to point out that a single year change isn't enough data to determine if the ozone hole phenomenon has started to heal. (slashgear.com)
  • NASA's data was supplied by instruments aboard the Aura satellite as well as the Ozone Monitoring and Profiler Suite instrument aboard the NASA-NOAA Suomi National Over-orbiting Partnership satellite. (slashgear.com)
  • Unlike most scientists counted in the scientific consensus on global warming we are real climate scientists. (joannenova.com.au)
  • He is currently a visiting scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center where he is working in a lab to study the properties of very cold icy grains relevant to outer solar system and interstellar ice grains and aerosols relevant to the atmospheres of other planets and moons. (ucf.edu)
  • In a study funded by the NASA Applied Sciences Program / Public Health Program (fully cited below), scientists at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center / Universities Space Research Association modified the regional surfacing algorithm of Al-Hamdan et al. (cdc.gov)
  • NASA said methane gas absorbs most of the light from the sun, making the planet darker. (scrippsnews.com)
  • Each aerosol particle absorbs light, which it then radiates as heat. (bnl.gov)
  • Physicists and mathematicians who couldn't make it in their own fields, like James Hansen and Gavin Schmidt (who actually told me one reason he became a climate scientist was because he couldn't make it in his degree field of mathematics). (joannenova.com.au)
  • But in an interview with Yale Environment 360, climate scientist Ken Caldeira talks about why he believes the world needs to better understand which geoengineering schemes might work and which are fantasy - or worse. (cleantechies.com)
  • Share this… Facebook TwitterDistinguished IPCC climate scientist Professor Hans von Storch wrote what to me appears to be a very twisted and disturbing statement at his Klimazwiebel blog. (notrickszone.com)
  • In certain places and at certain times, such as in the desert during a strong wind storm, aerosols from the dry, dusty soils may become so concentrated as to block out the sun. (carleton.edu)
  • We have one ground lidar at the Manila Observatory and another on the NASA P-3B. (nasa.gov)
  • CATS will be the fourth space-based lidar -light detection and ranging-designed to probe atmospheric aerosols by using a laser light like a radar. (nasa.gov)
  • In 2005, NASA began permanent surveillance of the hole in the ozone layer, using its Aura satellite to monitor its status. (naturalnews.com)
  • In a recent study using readings of the ozone's chemical composition gathered from Aura, scientists have found that the hole is actually decreasing in size. (naturalnews.com)
  • His comprehensive, peer-reviewed paper found that there has been no increase in weather extremes in the Austrian Alps - surprising the world's climate scientists. (notrickszone.com)
  • previously, scientists saw a link between actinoform cloud formation and the use of aerosols, according to the observatory. (livescience.com)
  • NASA has contributed two Earth science instruments for NOAA's space weather observing satellite called the Deep Space Climate Observatory or DSCOVR, set to launch in January 2015. (nasa.gov)
  • The Earth Observatory intends to routinely include these aerosol mappings into other models and weather-mapping systems to better simulate real-world conditions as they unfold. (inverse.com)
  • But measuring aerosols, whose role in weather and climate is a significant mystery, requires probing the air by using light in a manner similar to radar. (nasa.gov)
  • Aerosols come in all shapes, sizes, populations, masses and other factors, making them a challenge for scientists trying to understand their impact on weather and climate. (nasa.gov)
  • Recently, atmospheric scientist Omar Torres of Hampton University and several colleagues investigated yearly patterns in the intensity of the Amazon fire season. (nasa.gov)
  • Atmospheric scientist Ken Caldeira first became known for his groundbreaking work on ocean acidification, a phrase originally coined as a headline for one of his papers. (cleantechies.com)
  • These are from NASA Wavelength , a reviewed collection of standards-based resources for Earth and space science education. (strategies.org)
  • With the launch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) DSCOVR and the EPIC instrument, scientists will get pictures of the entire sunlit side of Earth. (nasa.gov)
  • But regardless of the motivation, scientists say that shutting down NASA's Earth science efforts would produce other, far-reaching consequences as effectively. (seriefringe.com)
  • Using a model called the Goddard Earth Observing System Forward Processing, or GEOS FP, the space agency was able to enhance the colorization of each particle type to reflect aerosol velocity and presence as it was recorded on Thursday, August 23. (inverse.com)
  • Eldar Noe Dobrea, Ph.D., a planetary scientist working to study landing sites for the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory. (nasa.gov)
  • The smoke has billowed into the lower stratosphere, reaching 17.7 kilometres above sea level, US space agency NASA said this week. (smh.com.au)