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Image of the Week Archive — August 2004
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Western Brazil on a Clear Day
August 29, 2004 —
On a clear day you can see ... smoke from near and far. This scene, captured by the Aqua/MODIS instrument on August 17, 2004, shows thick smoke covering large regions of Western Brazil. Hundreds of individual fires are plainly visible within this 1km reso . . . [continued]
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MODIS and INTEX-NA views of smoke layers over the Atlantic
August 22, 2004 —
Multiple layers of smoke (5-6 km) originated from forest fires in British Columbia, Canada are seen above cumulus clouds over the Northern Atlantic Ocean on July 29, 2004. The top image shows Terra-MODIS 10 km aerosol retrieval from the high resolution . . . [continued]
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A New "Cloud Mode" for AERONET
August 15, 2004 —
AERONET is a NASA sponsored ground based monitoring network that consists of identical multi-channel Cimel radiometers for assessing aerosol optical properties. In addition to aerosol, the network is now beginning . . . [continued]
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Multilayer cloud detection with passive solar and infrared imagery
August 8, 2004 —
Satellite cloud remote sensing based on solar reflectance measurements provides critical data needed for understanding the role of clouds in climate and weather. However, a frequent occurrence for such retrievals is the presence of multilayer clouds that . . . [continued]
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Cloud Effective Radius in the Arctic
August 1, 2004 —
A new algorithm has been implemented for determining the effective radius of liquid water and ice clouds over snow and sea ice surfaces. This algorithm, first described by Platnick et al. (2000) and later demonstrated over the Chukchi Sea by King et al. . . . [continued]
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