NASA’s Earth-observing satellites help scientists identify atmospheric rivers, which enables studies of climate change, water management, and weather.
Earth's atmosphere is a layer of mixed gases approximately 60 miles high that provides the air we breathe, shields us from dangerous levels of ultraviolet light from the sun, and traps enough heat to maintain a livable environment. NASA's satellites make atmospheric measurements that scientists use to study its chemistry and air quality, weather, and climate change. We have thousands of data ...
NASA Atmospheric Composition Ground Networks Supporting Air Quality and Climate Applications In this five-part, online, intermediate-level training led by the Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) program, multiple NASA networks will participate and provide training on their atmospheric composition ground networks.
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) is a hyperspectral sounder that collects daily global measurements of water vapor and temperature profiles as one of four instruments comprising the AIRS Project Instrument Suite. When launched in 2002, the AIRS Project Instrument Suite was the most advanced atmospheric sounding system ever deployed in space. AIRS data are combined with data from the ...
Credit: NASA “We’re producing a whole suite of products of atmospheric composition, such as carbon monoxide, ozone, methane, water vapor in the atmosphere, by combining radiances from a number of satellite instruments,” said Dr. Kevin W. Bowman, the Project Scientist for the TROPESS project.
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.
Lightning research has come a long way in the past few decades. Looking back at Space Shuttle lightning experiments in the 1980s, we now have a better understanding of why lightning occurs and where, what lightning patterns exist over the globe, and what lightning tells us about atmospheric convection. Most ground-based and airborne lightning sensors are only capable of detecting cloud-to ...