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Image of the Week Archive — September 2007
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Von Karman Vortice Observations at Large and Small Spatial Scales
September 30, 2007 —
The NASA TC4 (Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling) mission, conducted out of San Jose, Costa Rica in July-August 2007, investigated cloud properties and processes in the tropical Eastern Pacific.
On 6 August 2007, three NASA aircraft (ER-2, . . . [continued]
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Reversal of trend of biomass burning in the Amazon
September 23, 2007 —
The image illustrates the drastic reversal of an increasing trend in biomass burning in just one year, due to a combination of human effort for change and meteorological factors.
The upper left panel shows the slopes of linear fits through six years of s . . . [continued]
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Concept of new lidar measurements of snow and sea ice thickness
September 9, 2007 —
The left panel (a) shows the typical setup of proposed snow and sea ice thickness measurements: An airborne lidar illuminates the surface with a tightly focused laser beam and measures the light returning from increasingly wide concentric rings, thus obse . . . [continued]
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