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Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness News
Articles, resources, and announcements from Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness.
Base corrected reflectance image acquired on Nov 12, 2024, with aerosol index overlaid with ground-based aerosol optical depth measurements.
Worldview Image of the Week
Image captured on Aug 28, 2024, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-20 satellite.
Worldview Image of the Week
Base corrected reflectance image with aerosol optical thickness acquired on August 15, 2024, by the Suomi NPP/VIIRS instrument overlaid with AERONET sites showing ground-based aerosol optical depth measurements.
Worldview Image of the Week
NASA Worldview added four layers from the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) program to provide ground-based measurements of aerosol optical depth (AOD) and Angstrom parameter.
Blog
Pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) events (fire thunderstorms) caused by wildfires in western Canada were detected by the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) instrument July 19-24, 2024.
News
The Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) – Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Dark Target Aerosol product suite enables users to track rapid changes and movements in smoke and dust plumes that can severely impact air quality.
News
True color corrected reflectance image acquired Nov 15, 2023, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite and overlaid with aerosol optical thickness values.
Worldview Image of the Week
For meteorologist David Peterson, Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) data are crucial for studying pyrocumulonimbus events.
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