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SAL Tracking Product showing the Saharan air layer moving across the Atlantic Ocean from 28 to 30 June 2009
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CIMSS / NOAA-HRD
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Graphic depicting various air quality components of the European Earth monitoring programme GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security)
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Graphic depicting policy relevant services lines of the European Earth monitoring programme, GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security)
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Graphic depicting Myair air quality services for Europe
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Logo celebrating the 25th year of the Montreal Protocol
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Ozone Secretariat, UNEP / NCU
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Space measurement concept for the CO2 sounder lidar for the NASA ASCENDS mission
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Methane data from SCIAMACHY on ENVISAT
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Institute of Environmental Physics of the University of Bremen / Oliver Schneising, Michael Buchwitz, Heinrich Bovensmann and John P. Burrows
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Spectrum showing the Chappuis bands
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Institute of Environmental Physics of the University of Bremen / John P. Burrows Mark Weber and Andreas Richter
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Sciamachy BRO Data for 06-May-2005
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Sciamachy NO2 Data for 06-May-2005
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Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen/NCU
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Sciamachy carbon dioxide data 2006-2011
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Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen/NCU
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Latitudinal PAN distribution, averaged zonally and over 10 days between 4 October and 1 December, 2003
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N. Glatthor et al. (2007)
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Envisat captures dust and sand from the Algerian Sahara Desert, located in northern Africa, blowing west across the Atlantic Ocean. Plankton blooms are visible as blue and green swirls.
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Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen et al.
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Total amount of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in the atmosphere above Europe derived from one year of data from the GOME-2 instrument on Metop-A (March 2007 - February 2008).
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The ICSU World Data Center for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere
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Seasonal distributions of methanol total columns for the year 2009. The white areas correspond to a filter for sandy scenes where emissivity is uncertain
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A. Razavi et al. (2011)
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MSG space craft with a A Meteosat-9 Dust RGB image, showing the approximate distribution of ash and SO2 ejected by Grímsvötn volcano in Iceland
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© EUMETSAT (2011) /Schmetz, J. et al. (2002)
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Retrieval simulations for PREMIER
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72c_PREMIER_Retrieval_Simulations.jpg
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Courtesy of Brian Kerridge, STFC/RAL, UK/ NCU
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Sentinel-4 east-west scan for continuous monitoring above Europe and northern Africa
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© Astrium 2012
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Conceptual graphic of the TROPOMI measurement principle
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Courtesy of Pepijn Veefkind, KNMI, The Netherlands
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Graphic depicting various atmospheric composition services of the European Earth monitoring programme GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security)
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www.gmes-atmosphere.eu
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The Advanced Baseline Imager that will be on the GOES-R satellite
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ABI_complete.jpg
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NOAA / NASA
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Satellite data of CO concentrations (March 2000- May 2001)
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acd_mopitt_2000.mp4
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NCAR / ACD / NASA
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Tropospheric average carbon dioxide concentrations as retrieved from EOS Aqua AIRS sounder data from 18 to 21 January, 2003
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NASA
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Fires, smoke, and burn scars in Alaska and Yukon Territory, true color image, Aqua MODIS, 10 August 2005
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Alaska_true_color_hotspots.jpg
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NASA
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A graphical forecast for part of Georgia showing areas under an air quality alert
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aq_alert.jpg
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NOAA / NWS
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Graphical air quality forecasts for dust, smoke, and ozone for the entire U.S.
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aq_fcsts_0001.htm
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NOAA / NWS
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Air quality monitoring station
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aq_station.jpg
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David Johnson
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MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth
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Aqua_MOD_RGB_AOD_CONUS_29jun2012.jpg
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NOAA
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MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth
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Aqua_MOD_RGB_AOD_CONUS_29jun2012_sm.jpg
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NOAA
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Ashfall on a commercial airplane in the Phillipines after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo. So much ash is on the airplane that the tail has tipped to ground.
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Ashfall_Airplane.jpg
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R.L. Rieger, U.S. Navy
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Artist's drawing of Aura's four instruments, HIRDLS, MLS, OMI, and TES, which contain advanced technologies that have been developed for use on environmental satellites.
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aura_spacecraft_sm.jpg
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NASA/GSFC
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Conceptual diagram of Rayleigh and Mie scattering
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backscatter.jpg
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© The COMET Program
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Example of data from CALIPSO lidar showing clouds and an aerosol layer in a curtain-like image
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CALIPSO_curtain.jpg
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NASA’s Earth Observatory
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Pieces of the carbon cycle
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carboncycle.jpg
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© The COMET Program
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CarbonSat--the Carbon Monitoring Satellite
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Institute of Environmental Physics of the University of Bremen / Michael Buchwitz, Heinrich Bovensmann and John P. Burrows
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Absorbing species in the infra-red
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clerbaux_ash_ice_so2.jpg
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© LATMOS/ULB
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Top panel: radiance atmospheric spectrum (in normalized units) recorded by IASI/MetOp. Middle panels: radiative transfer transmittance simulations to identify the main absorbing gases (middle panels) and the weaker absorbers (lower panel, with a variable scale).
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Spectral resolution and sampling.
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clerbaux_spec_res.jpg
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© LATMOS/ULB
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Example of thermal contrast data. Left side--daytime satellite data. Right side--nighttime satellite data. Top row is surface temperature. The middle plots are temperature above the surface--1st atmospheric layer. The two lower plots are the difference between the surface temperature and atmospheric temperature.
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clerbaux_thermal_contrast.jpg
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Trace gas distributions for some atmospheric products from the IASI mission
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Clerbaux_Various_TIR_Species.jpg
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© LATMOS/ULB
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Conceptual graphic showing many of the influences on climate
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climate_influences.jpg
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© The COMET Program
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Graph showing the trend of mid-tropospheric carbon dioxide from 2003 to 2010 as taken by the AIRS instrument
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co2_from_airs.mp4
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NOAA
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The NASA Goddard CO2 Sounder lidar is a candidate for NASA's ASCENDS Earth Science Mission, which will use a lidar to measure the mixing ratio of atmospheric CO2 from orbit. The ASCENDS mission is scheduled to launch in 2019.
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co2sounderASCENDS.jpg
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NASA/GSFC
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Photo of a coal-fired power plant.
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coalplant.jpg
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USGS
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Diagram explaining what XCO2 is
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crisp_landsurface.jpg
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Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Diagram explaining what XCO2 is
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crisp_whatisXCO2.jpg
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Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Graphic depicting data assimilation methodology
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data_assim.jpg
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© The COMET Program
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Smoke from an oil refinery
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DI00419.jpg
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© UCAR, Photo by Carlye Calvin / NCU
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Grassland and bushes on fire
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DI00779.jpg
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© UCAR, Photo by Lee Klinger / NCU
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Industrial power plant
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DI01197.jpg
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© UCAR / NCU
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Wildfire
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DI02241.jpg
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© UCAR, Photo by Patrick Cullis
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Percentage of urban populations in areas with PM10 concentration exceeding daily limit value
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eea_pm10.jpg
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EEA
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Graphic that summarizes the atmospheric parameters measured by HIRDLS, MLS, OMI, and TES. The altitude range where these parameters are measured are shown as the vertical scale. In several cases the measurements overlap which provides independent perspectives and cross calibration of the measurements.
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eos_aura_chemchart.jpg
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NASA/GSFC
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The EPS Second Generation (EPS-SG) Instruments
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EPS_SG_Instruments.jpg
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Dr. Thierry Marbach, EUMETSAT
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ESA's ten-instrument Envisat environmental satellite
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ESA_Envisat.jpg
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EADS Astrium / NCU
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ERS-2 satellite used to study Earth's land, oceans, atmosphere and polar ice and monitor natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods.
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ESA_ERS2.jpg
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ERS-2 / NCU
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Average annual changes in tropospheric nitrogen dioxide, as observed by GOME from 1996 to 2002.
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esa_gome_no2.jpg
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Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen et al.
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Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Imaging and Sounding satellites.
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esa_mtg.jpg
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ESA–P. Carril / NCU
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Dark-grey ash plume rises high above Iceland in this early morning photo of Eyjafjalljokull' s eruption.
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eyjafjallajokull01.jpg
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Creative Commons Gunnlaugur P. Briem
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Satellite animation of carbon monoxide emitted from fires in Russia as viewed by the IASI instrument
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feux_russie_iasi_juin2012.mp4
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© LATMOS/ULB
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Distribution of the XCO2 retrieval errors for single soundings in glint mode for January (A), April (B), July (C) and October (D)
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Boesch et al, Remote Sens., 2011 / NCU
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Diagram showing the elements that go into the flux inversion process (prior estimates of surface fluxes, observations, and transport model)
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© The COMET Program
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Animation showing global carbon monoxide measurements at 500 mb from the AIRS instrument from 3 to 24 July 2004
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fm_July04COfromAIRS-600x419.mp4
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UMBC/JCET Provided by Mitch Goldberg
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A 48-hour forecast of aerosol optical depth and trajectories based on blending satellite and ground-based measurements, meteorological observations, and computer modelling
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gasp_geast_traj_fcst_20120629_ani.mp4
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NOAA / NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research
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Geostationary Lightning Mapper coverage overlaid on the globe
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glm_coverage.jpg
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NASA / The COMET Program
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Screen grab of the GMES Services website at http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/gmes/services/index_en.htm
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gmes_website.jpg
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http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/gmes/services/index_en.htm
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NOAA GASP aerosol optical depth product from GOES-East
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goes_aod_ani.mp4
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NOAA NESDIS
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GOES-15 animation of wildfires and associated hot spots in western Canada (14 Aug 2010)
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goes_fires_2010.mp4
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CIMSS / NOAA
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Animation of total column ozone derived from the GOES sounders
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goes_ozone.mp4
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CIMSS / NOAA
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Artist's drawing of the GOES-R satellite
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goesr_day_earth.jpg
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NOAA / NASA
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Artist's drawing of the GOES-R satellite
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NOAA / NASA
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Animation showing total ozone in Dobson units as measured by the GOME-1 instrument from 18 Sep to 11 Oct 2002
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gomeozone_ani.mp4
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©2002 EUMETSAT/ESA
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Image of a shoal of fish near the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Australia.
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Creative Commons Pix of Stuff
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Melting ice sheet, Greenland
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Ian Joughin, PSC/APL/UW
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NOAA Air Resources Laboratory HYSPLIT model 3-hour forecast of the ash plume path from the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano in early May 2010
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NOAA / ARL
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NOAA Air Resources Laboratory HYSPLIT model 3-hour forecast of the ash plume path from the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano in early May 2010
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NOAA / ARL
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IASI image from Greek fires
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© LATMOS/ULB
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IPCC Fourth Assessment Report graphic summarizing the principal components of the radiative forcing of climate change
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Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, FAQ 2.1, Figure 2. Cambridge University Press.
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IPCC Fourth Assessment Report graphics showing minimum Arctic and Antarctic total column ozone measurements and projections from 1960-2100
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Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Figure 7-18. Cambridge University Press.
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The Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite "IBUKI" (GOSAT) is the world's first satellite to observe global greenhouse gases from space.
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jaxa_ibuki.jpg
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http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/gosat/index_e.html
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Seasonal variations in the chemistry of the ozone hole revealed by Aura MLS
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Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
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A large SO2 plume from Kasatochi volcano in the Aleutians masking most of Canada and parts of the United States as viewed from the NASA Ozone Monitoring Instrument
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NASA
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Atmospheric limb transparency in MM window
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kerridge_mmw_limb_atm_pen.jpg
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Courtesy of Brian Kerridge, STFC/RAL, UK / NCU
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Atmospheric limb transparency in IR window
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kerridge_tir_limb_atm_pen.jpg
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Courtesy of Brian Kerridge, STFC/RAL, UK/ NCU
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Trace gas signatures in UV/visible region
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kerridge_UV_Vis_Species.jpg
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Courtesy of Brian Kerridge, STFC/RAL, UK / NCU
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OMI total NO2 data
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knmi_omi_no2.jpg
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http://www.temis.nl / NASA
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Satellite animation of global total column CO viewed by the IASI instrument
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latmos_iasi_co_2009.mp4
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© LATMOS/ULB
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Illustration of the concept of limb viewing/measurements
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limb.jpg
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© The COMET Program
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Illustration of the concept of limb viewing/measurements
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limb_2.jpg
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© The COMET Program
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A MACC ozone forecast graphic centered on Italy
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macc_ozone.jpg
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www.gmes-atmosphere.eu
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A MACC regional ozone forecast graphic
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macc_regfcst_o3_2012080200_SFC_063.jpg
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www.gmes-atmosphere.eu
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MACC forecast for surface NOx
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macc_sfc_nox.jpg
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www.gmes-atmosphere.eu
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Screen grab of the MACC Project website at http://www.gmes-atmosphere.eu/
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http://www.gmes-atmosphere.eu/
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Wildfires in northwest Spain, August 2006, as viewed by Meteosat-8
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meteosat_fires_2006.mp4
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© EUMETSAT (2006)
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Illustration of the Metop polar-orbiting satellite and instruments.
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metoppayload.jpg
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© EUMETSAT, 2006
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Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (MISR) animation with boxes indicating the ground pixel sizes
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misr_florida_short.mp4
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Courtesy of MISR instrument team, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Artist's conception of the satellite instrument MISR, which uses nine cameras pointed at fixed angles--one viewing the nadir (vertically downward) direction and four each viewing the forward and aftward directions along the spacecraft ground track
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misr_obs_concept.jpg
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NASA/JPL
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Terra MODIS image of dust storm over southwest Asia and the Middle East (March 2012)
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modis_dust_2012.jpg
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NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
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Fires and smoke in eastern Siberia as seen with Aqua/MODIS
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modis_fires.jpg
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NASA
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The Sentinel-4 payload will be carried by a Meteosat Third Generation satellite in geostationary orbit.
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mtg_anim.mp4
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ESA–AOES Medialab / NCU
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MTG-Sounding platform
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mtg_sndr.jpg
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ESA–AOES Medialab / NCU
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Illustration of the concept of nadir viewing/measurements
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nadir.jpg
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© The COMET Program
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Illustration of the concept of nadir viewing/measurements
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nadir_2.jpg
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© The COMET Program
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Image depicting the different scanning methods used by nadir and limb sensors on satellites monitoring pollution plumes
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nadir_limb.jpg
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© The COMET Program / NASA
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Conceptual graphic showing the formation of satellites, which currently includes Aqua, CloudSat, Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) and Aura satellites, that cross the equator at around 1:30 p.m. local time each afternoon. The "A" stands for "afternoon."
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NASA
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Arctic ozone column data from the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) on NASA's Aura (2011)
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NASA
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Biomass burning, including forest fires and the burning of fields in the tropics, is a large source of pollutants.
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NASA
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This satellite image reveals a massive phytoplankton bloom off of the Atlantic coast of Patagonia in December 2010. Scientists used seven spectral bands to highlight the differences in the plankton communities across this swath of ocean.
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NASA_EO_Patagonia_Bloom.jpg
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NASA Earth Observatory
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False-color view of the monthly-averaged total ozone over the Antarctic pole
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nasa_o3hole.jpg
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NASA Ozone Watch
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Suomi NPP satellite's Ozone Mapping Profiler Suite tracked aerosols from the fires burning in Siberia that took six days to reach the western U.S. The blue and green colors represent less smoke; yellows and pink represent more smoke. Smoke density is identified by the level of transparency in the coloration.
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nasa_omps_asian_fires_0001.htm
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NASA/Suomi NPP/Colin Seftor
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During the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano in early May 2010, the Ozone Monitoring Instrument on NASA's Aura showed the eruption's sulfur dioxide plume, which is a marker for fresh volcanic ash clouds.
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nasa_volc_so2.jpg
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NOAA
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Extract of the first journal paper to describe the ozone hole over Antarctica
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nature_o3.jpg
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Adapted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: NATURE, vol. 315, copyright 1985
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Newspaper article with headline "Russian Wildfires Dirty Finland's Air"
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NO2 monitoring stations in Europe
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The Earth's ozone layer as seen by Suomi NPP
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OCO-2 Orbiting Carbon Observatory
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Ozone measurements from different satellites from 1982 to 2012 with OMPS
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High vertical resolution measurements of the ozone layer from the limb profiler on OMPS
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Conceptual diagram showing boundary conditions affecting the inside domain in a nested model.
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Ozone absorption in the atmosphere
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Ozone concentrations over the Arctic from Aura OMI from 1 January to 23 March in 2010 and 2011
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Large smoke column rises over a pine forest.
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Graphical daily peak AQI (Air Quality Index) forecasts for the combination of PM2.5 and O3 for the entire U.S.
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MISR image of fire, smoke and deforestation near the Xingu River, Brazil, taken 29 Jun 2004
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Upper left image--ash detection, right image--IASI ash index, lower left image--model of ash plume
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MODIS ash images from 2010 Eyjafjallajökul volcanic eruption
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Conceptual graphic describing the PREMIER satellite mission carrying the IRLS limb-viewing infrared Fourier transform spectrometer and the STEAM-R limb-viewing millimetre wave emission radiometer
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Graph showing decreases in pollutant emissions in the EU (1990-2009) and U.S. (1990-2010)
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SAGE III Instrument Payload
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MODIS true color image showing the Saharan air layer off West Africa on 7 Jan 2002
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Conceptual image of the proposed Sentinel-5 satellite
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Example of improvements in NOAA Community Multiscale Air Quality Model (CMAQ) surface ozone predictions when Metop-1 GOME-2 NO2 data are used to adjust NOx emissions
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View from top of World Trade Center of air pollution over Manhattan
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Arctic ozone profile from the METOP Gome-2 instrument (March 2011)
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Close view of Stromboli Volcano erupting incandescent molten lava fragments.
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This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) shows the polluted air like a gray veil over the region southwest of Chicago on September 9, 2002.
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False-color view of total ozone over the Antarctic pole from 1979 to 2010
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CarbonSat’s spectral bands covered by the Imaging Spectrometer
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Cover page of the Handbook for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
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Total changes (%) in greenhouse gas emissions of individual countries, 1990-2009 (including Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry)
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Ozone forecast for cities along the US East Coast
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Diagram of air pollution sources and transport mechanisms
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Diagram of how long-range pollution transport works in the vertical
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Diagram of long-range pollution transport between continents
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A terraced rice-farm is near the slopes of the erupting Mayon volcano. Ash plume and projectiles are seen on the volcanic cone.
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Impact of column-average methane mixing ratios for inverse modelling of surface fluxes
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Effects of acid rain, woods, Jizera Mountains, Czech Republic
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World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre (WOUDC) map of total column ozone sites
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Environment Canada, Toronto (n.d.). World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre (WOUDC). Retrieved July 25, 2012, from http://www.woudc.org
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