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Monthly AIRS temperature anomaly over the AIRS record (2002-2020) aggregated into five vertical categories.
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Globes and time series showing temperature anomalies.
AIRS Temperature Anomaly Trends, 2002-2020
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
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
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
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 Air Temperature Anomaly, Day
U.S. 2011 Heat Wave: Surface Air Temperature Anomaly, Day
This visualization shows mid-tropospheric carbon dioxide from July 2003. Data is from AIRS, the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder on NASA's Aqua satellite.
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Global Carbon Dioxide in Southern Hemisphere with Winds, July 2003
Global Carbon Dioxide in Southern Hemisphere with Winds, July 2003
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)
Time series 2003-2019 shows a persistent source of CO in the Central African regions during late summer with reduced persistence in the South American regions in the later years. 
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Globes shows time series of carbon monoxide transport.
Carbon monoxide time series mosaic animation, 2003-2019
In this animation, NASA instruments show the seasonal cycle of vegetation and the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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Watching Earth Breathe: The Seasonal Vegetation Cycle and Carbon Dioxide
Watching Earth Breathe: The Seasonal Vegetation Cycle and Carbon Dioxide
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)
Trace gases in Earth's atmosphere are the driver of climate change, says Chris Barnet of NOAA-NESDIS.
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Climate change, trace gases, and satellites - An interview with Chris Barnet
Climate change, trace gases, and satellites - An interview with Chris Barnet
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, AIRS, was launched aboard the Aqua Spacecraft in 2002 as part of NASA's Earth Observing System Afternoon Constellation of satellites known as the 'A-Train.
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Arctic Carbon Dioxide, February 2010 to February 2011
Arctic Carbon Dioxide, February 2010 to February 2011
Although originally designed to measure atmospheric water vapor and temperature profiles for weather forecasting, data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecr...
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Global Carbon Dioxide with Winds, July 2003
Global Carbon Dioxide with Winds, July 2003
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
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
The AIRS sounder reveals important new information to supplement the familiar overhead views of hurricanes that come from satellites. Here AIRS shows some of the internal temperature structure of S...
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Supertyphoon Pongsona Isotherms
Supertyphoon Pongsona Isotherms
The Antarctic Vortex forms early in polar winter and is relatively isolated from the air in the southern midlatitudes.
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Ozone hole formation over south pole, September 1 to December 4, 2014
Ozone hole formation over south pole, September 1 to December 4, 2014
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
In this animation, the field of view of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument onboard NASA's Aqua spacecraft is represented by the blue beam as it sweeps back and forth through the atm...
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AIRS Collects Data and Creates a Temperature Profile
AIRS Collects Data and Creates a Temperature Profile
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
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
A large number of wildfires, many of them triggered by powerful lightning storms on June 21, erupted around California over the next several weeks. At their peak, more than 2,000 fires were active,...
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Carbon Monoxide from California's Wildfires 2008
Carbon Monoxide from California's Wildfires 2008
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
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 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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AIRS Data - Carbon Dioxide Seasonal Variation and Increase, 2002-2008
AIRS Data - Carbon Dioxide Seasonal Variation and Increase, 2002-2008

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