Indian Ocean, Ozone and Smoke

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Tropospheric Ozone and Smoke from Earth Probe TOMS: Indian Ocean

Researchers have discovered that smoke and smog move in different ways through the atmosphere. A series of unusual events several years ago created a blanket of pollution over the Indian Ocean. In this animation, significant smog or tropospheric ozone is represented by red and green and regions of significant smoke index are in shades of white and gray.

Tropospheric Ozone and Smoke over the Indian Ocean on August 11, 1997

Metadata

  • Sensor

    TOMS/TOMS, Terra/MODIS

  • Animation ID

    2072

  • Video ID

    SVS2001-0007

  • Start Timecode

    01:01:37:00

  • End Timecode

    01:02:43:00

  • Animator

    Horace Mitchell

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2001/03/06

  • Scientist

    Anne Thompson (NASA/GSFC)

  • Citation

    A. M. Thompson, J. C. Witte, R. D. Hudson, H. Guo, J. R. Herman, M. Fujiwara, Tropical tropospheric ozone and biomass burning, Science, 291, 2128-2132, 2001

  • Datasets

    Tropospheric Ozone, Smoke Index

  • Keywords

    Aerosols, Smoke

  • DLESE Subject

    Atmospheric science

  • Georeference Data

    [20.0E,57.5S,160.0E,47.5N]

  • Data Date

    07/06/1997-10/22/97

  • Story URL

    http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/GSFC/EARTH/environ/indo/ozone.htm

  • Animation Type

    Regular