Tropospheric Ozone and Smoke from Earth Probe TOMS: Indian Ocean
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 Smoke over the Indian Ocean from July 6, 1997 to October 22, 1997
Tropospheric Ozone and Smoke over the Indian Ocean on July 6, 1997
Tropospheric Ozone and Smoke over the Indian Ocean on August 11, 1997
Tropospheric Ozone and Smoke over the Indian Ocean on September 16, 1997
Tropospheric Ozone and Smoke over the Indian Ocean on October 22, 1997
Color Bars for Tropospheric Ozone and Smoke Index
Video slate image reads, "Tropospheric Ozone and Smoke from Earth Probe TOMS: Indian Ocean to Indonesia Zoom (7/6/97 - 10/22/97)".
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 Tuesday, March 6, 2001.
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 -
Smoke [Earth Probe: TOMS]
ID: 301
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