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AIRS Level 3 Daily Temperatures at 500 mb for January, February and March 2019. Ascending and Descending orbits are averaged.
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Air Temperature at 500 hPa
Polar Vortex – Air Temperature at 500 hPa, January-March 2019
Interactive globes showing the 20-year surface air temperature trend from AIRS daytime and nighttime observations.
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Interactive globes showing the 20-year surface air temperature trend from AIRS daytime and nighttime observations.
Interactive Surface Air Temperature Trend Globes
Animation showing surface air temperature maps with geopotential height contours (in km at the 200 hPa pressure surface) overlaid over North America and the Arctic from February 17th to 26th, 2023,...
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Animation of surface air temperature and geopotential height during February 2023 cold outbreak over US
Animation of surface air temperature and geopotential height during February 2023 cold outbreak over US
Interactive globes showing the 20-year trend for total column water vapor from AIRS daytime and nighttime observations.
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Interactive globes showing the 20-year trend for total column water vapor from AIRS daytime and nighttime observations.
Total Column Water Vapor Trend - Interactive Globes
During the month of January 2014, the continental United States experienced several bouts of extremely cold air that moved southward from the north polar region.
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Temperature Anomaly corresponding to January 2014 Polar Vortex Activity
Temperature Anomaly corresponding to January 2014 Polar Vortex Activity
This movie of temperature observations from NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft depicts the first major North American weather event of 2014: cold air mo...
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NASA's AIRS Sees Polar Vortex Behind U.S. Big Chill (narrated)
NASA's AIRS Sees Polar Vortex Behind U.S. Big Chill (narrated)
As the polar vortex rotates you see consistent patterns over the United States, where the tongue of cold air will dip repeatedly over and over bringing wave after wave of bad weather.
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Globes showing polar vortex time series.
Polar Vortex mosaic animation, December 2002 to March 2020
This movie of temperature observations from NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft depicts the first major North American weather event of 2014: cold air mo...
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NASA's AIRS Sees Polar Vortex Behind U.S. Big Chill
NASA's AIRS Sees Polar Vortex Behind U.S. Big Chill

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