DYAMOND Global Carbon Dioxide for Science On A Sphere

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Global CO2 ppm for January-March of 2020.

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This map shows concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) as wind and air masses moved the gas through Earth’s atmosphere in the winter of 2020. The majority of emissions over China, the United States, and South Asia came from power plants, industrial facilities, cars, and trucks. Over Africa and South America, emissions largely stemmed from fires related to farm and land management and from deforestation, with some contributions from fossil fuel burning. This visualization was created using a high-resolution weather model powered by supercomputers. It pulls together billions of data points from real-world ground observations and satellite instruments.

Global CO2 ppm for January-March of 2020. These frames are provided as a layer for video producers and only shows the CO2 volume, with no background.

Earth's surface for January-March of 2020, interpolated from the monthly Blue Marble data. These frames are provided as a layer for video producers and only shows the surface of the Earth, intended as a background for the CO2 volume.

Color bar showing the range, color, and opacity transfer functions for the above visualizations.

Color bar showing the range, color, and opacity transfer functions for the above visualizations.

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Datasets used

  • DYAMOND

    ID: 1193
    Type: Model Collected by: NASA/JPL, NASA/GMAO

    The data from the experimental coupled GEOS-MITgcm model known as DYAMOND that was run on NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility.

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This page was originally published on Friday, July 4, 2025.
This page was last updated on Thursday, July 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM EDT.