Suomi Sees Asian Fires Migrate To North America
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- Visualizations by:
- Walt Feimer
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Research Scientist Colin Seftor talks about images that he built from Suomi data. Suomi is originally known as NPP. In these images we see smoke travel from Asia to North America.
In this short video, research scientist Colin Seftor talks about images from the OMPS instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite. Suomi (NPP) launched in the fall of 2011. These images show smoke from Asia that migrates to North America. Seftor explains the importance of aerosols to the studies of climate as well as how critical it is to collect long term data records.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, NOAA
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Animator
- Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
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Video editor
- Silvia Stoyanova (USRA)
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Scientist
- Colin Seftor (NASA/GSFC)
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Interviewee
- Colin Seftor (NASA/GSFC)
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Producer
- Silvia Stoyanova (USRA)
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Videographer
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Tapes
This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:-
OMPS Aerosols Story
(ID: 2012055)
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 4:00AM
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