China Dust Storm (April 2001)

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

China Dust Storm seen by Earth Probe/TOMS in April of 2001

A thick shroud of dust appears over China on April 6 and 7, 2001. The densest portion of the aerosol pollution travels east over China, Russia, Japan, the Pacific Ocean, Canada, and the United States.

April 10, 2001

Metadata

  • Sensor

    TOMS/TOMS

  • Animation ID

    2859

  • Video ID

    None

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    Lori Perkins, Greg Shirah

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2003/12/01

  • Scientist

    Paul Newman (NASA/GSFC), Pawan K. Bhartia (NASA/GSFC)

  • Keywords

    Dust, Aerosols, Pollution

  • DLESE Subject

    Atmospheric science

  • Data Date

    Earth Probe/TOMS 2001/4/6-17

  • Pao ID

    G03-066

  • Animation Type

    Regular