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Measuring Carbon Dioxide with Space with AIRS
This page contains links to the AIRS press release about the new findings about CO2, a brief history of CO2 measurements, peer-review papers and more
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'AIRS Uncovers Carbon Dioxide Loop in Southern Hemisphere'
This feature story printed in the December 8, 2008 issue of Space News details how data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder has uncovered a belt of carbon dioxide that is rapidly circling the southern hemisphere, and what this is revealing about the nature of global CO2 distribution and transport
The July 2008 image of global carbon dioxide circulation (right) was featured in the Space News story
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Global Carbon Dioxide Concentration
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Carbon Dioxide Increase From 2002 Through 2008
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Visualization of Carbon Dioxide Increase From 2002 Through 2008
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