New NASA technology will monitor dust particles from space to prove the link to climate impacts.
ISS (INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION)
NASA has developed new instruments that will be deployed to the International Space Station to monitor the impact of dust particles in the atmosphere. There are many theories and some evidence that dust can directly impact cloud formation and, therefore, the weather and climate. By launching such instruments into space, it will provide scientists with a much broader range of data and enable much faster data collection than trying to achieve the same from Earth. NASA’s official report on this new technology provides some interesting details. “Dust can affect air temperatures as well. For example, dust with more iron absorbs light and can cause the air to warm, while dust with less iron reflects light and is responsible for local cooling. Iron in dust can also act as a fertilizer for plankton in oceans, supplying them with nutrients needed for growth and reproduction.”
The plan is for this new instrument to spend 12 months collecting data 24/7. This will provide scientists with more data than has ever been collected on dust particles. And the goal is for this to show how dust directly impacts cloud formation and weather in different parts of the world.
We have compiled a series of different but interesting currently implemented atmospheric and climate monitoring tools.
WILDFIRES
LP DAAC - Homepage
The Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) is one of several discipline-specific data centers within the NASA Earth Observing System Data
EOSDIS Worldview
The Worldview tool from NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) provides the capability to interactively browse over 1000 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and then download the underlying data. Many of the imagery layers are updated daily and are available within three hours of observation - essentially showing the entire Earth as it looks "right now".
Earthdata Search - NASA
Search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data in your browser with Earthdata Search.
ORNL DAAC for Biogeochemical Dynamics
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC) for Biogeochemical Dynamics is a NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) data center managed by the Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Project.
Home — LandsatLook
LandsatLook is a tool that allows rapid online viewing and access to the USGS Landsat Collection 2 data
GloVis
Since 2001, the USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis) has been available to users for accessing remote sensing data.
FIRMS: NASA | LANCE
The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) distributes Near Real-Time (NRT) active fire data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua and Terra satellites, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard S-NPP and NOAA 20 (formally known as JPSS-1).
SERVIR GLOBAL | Connecting Space to Village
Monitoreo: huracanes, tormentas, sismos, terremotos | SERVIR
SERVIR works in partnership with leading regional organizations worldwide to help developing countries use the information provided by Earth-observing satellites and geospatial technologies.
WATER MANAGEMENT
Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) - Landsat Science
Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) - ESA Earth Online
The Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) instrument is a fixed “whisk-broom”, eight-band, multispectral scanning radiometer capable of providing high-resolution imaging information of the Earth’s surface.
EarthExplorer - USGS.gov
Query and order satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products through the U.S. Geological Survey.
Home — LandsatLook
LandsatLook is a tool that allows rapid online viewing and access to the USGS Landsat Collection 2 data
MODIS Vegetation Index Products (NDVI and EVI)
MODIS vegetation indices, produced on 16-day intervals and at multiple spatial resolutions, provide consistent spatial and temporal comparisons of vegetation canopy greenness, a composite property of leaf area, chlorophyll, and canopy structure.
MERRA-2 - Global Modeling and Assimilation Office - NASA
MERRA-2 is the first long-term global reanalysis to assimilate space-based observations of aerosols and represent their interactions with other microwave observations. More inspiring green news similar to this:
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