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Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Aerosols from 2003 Southern California Fires (WMS)
A devastating series of fires occurred in Southern California during October 2003. The effects of these fires were detectable from space. The Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instrument measures aerosol particles (microscopic airborne dust and smoke). TOMS was able to detect aerosols from these fires moving West over the Pacific Ocean and East over the continental United States.
Color scale for this animation showing low aerosol values as shades of blue and green and higher values as yellow, orange or red. The units of aerosol index are dimensionless.
Metadata
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Sensor
TOMS/TOMS -
Animation ID
3132 -
Start Timecode
00:00:00:00 -
End Timecode
00:00:00:00 -
Animator
Jeff DeLaBeaujardiere -
Studio
SVS -
Visualization Date
2005/03/11 -
Scientist
Paul Newman (NASA/GSFC), Pawan K. Bhartia (NASA/GSFC) -
Datasets
Aerosols -
Keywords
GCMD--EARTH SCIENCE--Atmosphere--Aerosols--Aerosol Radiance, GCMD--Instrument--TOMS--Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer, GCMD--Platform--EP-TOMS--Earth Probe-TOMS -
DLESE Subject
Atmospheric science -
Imagemods
Gaps with missing data were interpolated. Each frame was smoothed spatially, and the eastern (before midnight) edge of each frame was smoothed with the western (after midnight) edge of the following day's frame. The area of interest was extracted, expanded and smoothed. Low aerosol values (index less than 1) were made transparent. -
Story URL
http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/aerosols/aerosols.html -
Animation Type
Regular