Image from TERRA
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:05 EST

Annapolis, Maryland; Norfolk, Virginia; and Miami were originally built and mapped to provide enough protection against flooding, but sea level rise has caused that buffer to shrink.

Image from TERRA
Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:00 EDT

NASA scientists are combining data from water samples containing fish DNA with satellite data to find native fish and identify their habitats.

Image from TERRA
Fri, 25 Sep 2020 10:00 EDT

The August Complex Fire and others this fire season have been sending far-reaching plumes of wildfire smoke into the atmosphere that worsen air quality in California and beyond. Predicting where that smoke will travel and how bad the air will be downwind is a challenge, but Earth-observing satellites can help.

MOPITT Data

The MOPITT website informs a broad audience about MOPITT data and products.

MOPITT CO data March 23, 2000

MOPITT CO data March 23, 2000

MOPITT data are are available from several archives:

 MOPITT Data Products For Novice Data Users

  • MOPITT Product Visualization – Pre-generated plots show global distributions of carbon monoxide for specific days or months of the Terra mission available through the MOPITT website.
  • NASA Worldview – Interactive interface for browsing full-resolution, global, daily satellite images, including MOPITT data sets.

MOPITT Data Products For Professional Data Users
Scientists and researchers can access version 4,5, and 6 are currently publicly available.

  • MOPITT Data Products (detailed descriptions listed with product)
  • MOPITT Data User’s Guides (recommended for scientists)
  • MOPITT Product Visualization – Pre-generated plots show global distributions of carbon monoxide for specific days or months of the Terra mission available through the MOPITT website. Advanced users benefit from using these plots to quickly identify potentially interesting geographical areas for analysis, such as regions where large-scale biomass burning might be taking place.

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