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SAFARI
2000 CAPTURES POLLUTION AND CLIMATE INTERACTIONS, DEBUTS AT AGU PRESS BRIEFING,
DECEMBER 12 During
the year 2000, above average seasonal rainfall spurred vegetative growth in South
Africa, providing more fuel for biomass burning and adding pollution to the atmosphere.
The increased levels of pollution created health hazards and some smoke plumes
traveled one-third of the way around the world. A
press briefing highlighting these and other findings from The Southern African
Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI 2000) will be held on Wednesday, December
12, at 2:00 p.m. PST at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, in San Francisco,
Calif. The event will be held in room 112 of the Moscone Convention Center. SAFARI
2000 focused on investigating the coupled land-atmosphere processes associated
with the emission, transport, transformation, deposition and impact of southern
African aerosols and trace gases. During the last 2 years, NASA was a major participant
in several SAFARI 2000 field campaigns providing satellite, airborne and ground-based
observations and scientific analyses for the studies. The
panelists at the briefing will be: · Harold Annegarn, Atmosphere &
Energy Research Group, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa ·
Robert Scholes, Environmentek CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa · Michael
King, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. · Robert (Bob)
Swap, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
Va. Media
can register for the briefing at the AGU pressroom, Room 111 of the Moscone Center,
beginning Monday, December 10 at 7:30 a.m. For more information contact Harvey
Leifert, AGU Public Information Manager, Tel. 202-777-7507, E-mail: hleifert@agu.org.
After December 9, contact the AGU press room at Tel. 415-905-1007; fax: 415-905-1008. Visualizations
of the SAFARI 2000 observations will be broadcast on NASA-TV on Wednesday, December
12. The video file airs at noon, 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. ET. NASA TV is available on
GE-2, transponder 9C at 85 degrees West longitude, with vertical polarization.
Frequency is on 3880.0 megahertz, with audio on 6.8 megahertz.
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