Imported Dust in North American Skies
NASA and university scientists have made the first measurement-based estimate of the amount and composition of tiny airborne particles that arrive in the air over North America each year. With a 3D view of the atmosphere now possible from satellites, the scientists distinguished dust from pollution, and calculated that dust is the main ingredient of these foreign imports.
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Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Robert Simmon (Sigma Space Corporation)
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
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Producer
- Jefferson Beck (USRA)
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Scientists
- Lorraine Remer (NASA/GSFC)
- Jongbin Yu (NASA/University of Maryland)
- Mian Chin (NASA/GSFC)
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Videographer
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Writer
- Kathryn Hansen (Wyle Information Systems)
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Pacific Aerosol Transport
(ID: 2012086)
Thursday, August 2, 2012 at 4:00AM
Produced by - James Collier (NASA)
Datasets used
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[CALIPSO: CALIOP]
ID: 178Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization
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This page was originally published on Thursday, August 2, 2012.
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