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Image of the Week Archive — December 2007
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Interannual Variability of Smoke in Three Biomass Burning Regions
December 30, 2007 —
South America, southern Africa and the Indonesian archipelago represent the three major areas of tropical biomass burning and smoke production. Using MODIS-derived monthly mean Level 3 data, the figure shows a 8 year time series of the aerosol optical de . . . [continued]
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Halo observations in snow
December 16, 2007 —
These images show the first demonstration of a new concept for airborne snow thickness measurements. Panel 1 illustrates that while in thick snow photons can travel far, in thin snow they often escape through the bottom and get absorbed by the ground. Thi . . . [continued]
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Remote sensing of cloud sides of deep convective clouds
December 9, 2007 —
CLAIM 3D -- the three-dimensional cloud and aerosol interaction mission proposal -- is a satellite sensor combination proposed by scientists from NASA’s Climate and Radiation Branch and the University of Maryland Baltimore County. It combines measurement . . . [continued]
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Changes in summertime U.S. rain with the day of the week and hour of the day
December 2, 2007 —
The image at the top represents the average rain rate during the summers of 1998-2005 for each day of the week and each hour of the day, The averages are over the non-coastal southeast-U.S. as depicted in the map at the bottom. Rain rates are represented . . . [continued]
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