Part II. Track Pollution from Space To improve air quality, it is important to know what contributes to polluting the air. Haze comes from a variety of sources. Your skies may be hazy from local ...

A large storm system brought more than a foot of rain to parts of Central Texas on October 30 and 31, 2013. Up to 14 inches (36 cm) of rain fell in the Austin region, according to the National Weather ...

Relating Visibility to Air Quality Poor air quality contributes to poor visibility, but poor visibility doesn’t always mean that the air quality is bad. Fog or clouds may be limiting visibility. To ...

How successfully do rain gauges catch rainfall patterns? Do the satellites record the same patterns of data as the ground-based gauges? How many gauges are required in order to observe regional ...

The Science Team Leader for ASTER, Dr. Yasushi Yamaguchi, is a professor at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan. He graduated Tohoku University, Japan, and obtained ...

Presentations Terra at 10, First of the EOS Missions (ppt) Marc Imhoff ASTER (ppt) Michael Abrams Terra at 10: Ceres Results (ppt) Norman Loeb What 10 Years of MOPITT Data Have Taught Us About ...

A rare winter storm dropped snow across much of the Middle East between December 10 and 13, 2013. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this ...