Indonesian Tropospheric Ozone and Aerosol Index
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 Aerosol Index over Indonesia from July 6, 1997 to October 30, 1997
Tropospheric Ozone and Aerosol Index over Indonesia on September 10, 1997
Tropospheric Ozone and Aerosol Index over Indonesia on October 10, 1997
Tropospheric Ozone and Aerosol Index over Indonesia on October 21, 1997
Color Bars for Tropospheric Ozone and Smoke Index
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientist
- Anne Thompson (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, October 18, 2000.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:58 PM EDT.
Missions
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This visualization can be found in the following series:Papers used in this visualization
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 used in this visualization
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[Terra: MODIS]
ID: 116 -
Tropospheric Ozone [Earth Probe: TOMS]
ID: 300 -
Aerosol Index [Earth Probe: TOMS]
ID: 302
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