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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 was produced with data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft shows the spread of carbon monoxide pollution across North America from fires in ...
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Animation: AIRS Instrument Sees Spread of Pollution from Western Wildfires, August 2013
Animation: AIRS Instrument Sees Spread of Pollution from Western Wildfires, August 2013
Packing gusts of nearly 300 kilometers per hour (184 miles per hour) and sustained winds of 240 kilometers per hour (150 miles per hour), Super-Typhoon Pongsona struck the U.S. Island of Guam on De...
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Super-Typhoon Pongsona, December 2002
Super-Typhoon Pongsona, December 2002
On June 4, 2011 the Puyuhue-Cordón Caulle volcano complex, located 40.59 deg S, 72.12 deg W in Chile, erupted, sending ash clouds 15 km into the atmosphere and on their way around the world. It was...
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Volcanic Ash from Puyehue Eruption
Volcanic Ash from Puyehue Eruption
The continuing heat wave in the United States in July 2011 has broken temperature records in many locations, killed dozens and seen nearly half of all Americans under heat advisories at its peak.
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U.S. 2011 Heat Wave: Surface Skin Temperature Anomaly, Night
U.S. 2011 Heat Wave: Surface Skin Temperature Anomaly, Night
A series of fires across Greece in August of 2007 burned 469,000 acres and claimed the lives of 65 people. The fires, in which an estimated 4,000 people lost their homes, mostly occurred in the sou...
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Carbon Monoxide from Fires in Greece, 2007
Carbon Monoxide from Fires in Greece, 2007
AIRS scientist Ed Olsen was interviewed and filmed for Eco Company, a national TV show hosted by teens.
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Water Vapor a Greenhouse Gas?
Water Vapor a Greenhouse Gas?
This movie was produced with data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft shows the spread of carbon monoxide pollution across North America from fires in ...
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Pollution from California's Rim Fire, August 2013
Pollution from California's Rim Fire, August 2013
The continuing heat wave in the United States in July 2011 has broken temperature records in many locations, killed dozens and seen nearly half of all Americans under heat advisories at its peak.
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U.S. 2011 Heat Wave: Surface Skin Temperature Anomaly, Day
U.S. 2011 Heat Wave: Surface Skin Temperature Anomaly, Day
This visualization shows 3D volumetric water vapor data from the Aqua/Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument.
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Water Vapor In Storm Front Near Southern California, January 2003
Water Vapor In Storm Front Near Southern California, January 2003
In the summer of 2010, months of record-breaking drought and temperatures culminated with a rash of fires that ravaged western Russia for weeks. 
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Russian Fires and Pakistan Floods
Russian Fires and Pakistan Floods
Animations of AIRS specific humidity at 931 mb, in terms of monthly means, anomalies, and cumulative trend, over the period 2003-2021.
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Animations of AIRS specific humidity at 931 mb, in terms of monthly means, anomalies, and cumulative trend, over the period 2003-2021.
Water Vapor Trends in the Arctic 2003-2021
Larrabee Strow of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, has spent a career teasing out Earth's atmospheric molecules and studying how they react using a technique called high resolution spe...
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How to build an indisputable climate record - An interview with Larrabee Strow
How to build an indisputable climate record - An interview with Larrabee Strow
Andrew Gettelman of the National Center of Atmospheric Research in Boulder Colorado knows our ability to effectively predict Earth's future climate depends on how accurate our climate models are to...
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Recipe for a Better Climate Model - An interview with Andrew Gettelman
Recipe for a Better Climate Model - An interview with Andrew Gettelman
Mt. Etna, a volcano on the island of Sicily, erupted on October 26, 2002. 
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Sulfur Dioxide Plume from Mt. Etna Eruption 2002
Sulfur Dioxide Plume from Mt. Etna Eruption 2002
Ozone hole mosaic animation 2003-2019
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Globes representing years from 2003-2019 show ozone hole evolution
Ozone Hole 19-year Record, mosaic animation 2002-2020
This animation shows how light energy is collected by the optics system on the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument and digitized.
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This animation shows how light energy is collected by the optics system on the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument and digitized.
Light Travels Through AIRS Optics
Data visualization of carbon dioxide (CO2) measured by AIRS for the 20-year period 2002-2022, in a global map and a time series for northern mid-latitudes.
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Data visualization of carbon dioxide (CO2) measured by AIRS for the 20-year period 2002-2022, in a global map and a time series for northern mid-latitudes.
AIRS Global Carbon Dioxide Measurements over 20 Years (2002-2022)
From improving forecast prediction skill to identifying errors in climate models to measuring trace gases in Earth's atmosphere, scientists talk about the quality of AIRS data and how it's helping ...
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Using AIRS Data in Science Research
Using AIRS Data in Science Research
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)
This visualization is a time-series of the global distribution and variation of the concentration of mid-tropospheric carbon dioxide observed by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on the NASA ...
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Global Carbon Dioxide 2002-2009, with Mauna Loa Carbon Dioxide Graph
Global Carbon Dioxide 2002-2009, with Mauna Loa Carbon Dioxide Graph
AIRS Level 3 daily average water vapor from November 2018 to November 2019 plotted as an isosurface over the globe.
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AIRS Level 3 daily average water vapor
Water Vapor Isosurfaces 12.2018–12.2019
Monthly AIRS temperature anomaly over the AIRS record (2002-2020) in the lower troposphere and upper stratosphere.
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Globes and time series showing temperature anomalies.
AIRS Temperature Anomaly Trends in the Lower Troposphere and Upper Stratosphere, 2002-2020
Dr. Eric Fetzer, Project Scientist of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, gives an overview of the El Nino Southern Oscillation.
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What-is-ENSO.mov
AIRS brightness temperature differences indicating sulfur dioxide plumes (red) at different times after the Mauna Loa volcanic eruption.
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AIRS brightness temperature differences indicating sulfur dioxide plumes (red) at different times after the Mauna Loa volcanic eruption.
AIRS Tracks Volcanic Sulfur Dioxide Plume from Mauna Loa to Texas over Three Days

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