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Image of the Week Archive — March 2006
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Mexican Aerosols and Humidity
March 26, 2006 —
The photograph in the background of the figure shows aged pollution from Mexico City over a ground-based station in the city of Pachuca, Hidalgo State, which is located about 150 km north of Mexico City. The relatively low visibility, fading the mountain . . . [continued]
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The Texas grass fires of March 2006 as observed from satellites
March 19, 2006 —
The largest grass fires observed in the history of Texas began on 3/12/06. An ABC news report on 3/17/06 stated that “Since Sunday, the fires have consumed 840,000 acres, killed at leas . . . [continued]
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Approximate co-location of precipitation and low-level westerly wind component in tropical monthly means in the western Pacific and Indian Ocean
March 12, 2006 —
These figures show the 850 hPa (about 1.5 km above sea level) February and August zonal wind component in contours (m/s) and rainfall in color (mm/day) averaged from 1979 to 2003. The wind data are from the NCEP reanalysis and the rainfall data are from . . . [continued]
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