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Explosive economic growth in Asia has profound implications for the atmosphere worldwide. Data collected by a NASA satellite shows a dense blanket of polluted air over the Northwestern Pacific. This brown cloud is a toxic mix of ash, acids, and airborne particles from car and factory emissions, as well as from low-tech polluters like coal-burning stoves and from forest fires. This image generated by data from NASA's instrument called MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) onboard the Terra satellite demonstrates how large and pervasive this transport phenomenon is across vast areas. China's exports fill shelves around the world, but according to a new NASA research paper, China also heavily exports pollution. This week, space agency scientists reveal how Chinese industrialization and Russian forest fires in combination with pollution transported eastward from Europe send roughly 18 teragrams - almost 40 billion pounds-of pollution aerosols into the atmosphere over the Northwestern Pacific every year. The MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite has been tracking the particulate pollution for more than seven years, gathering data as most of it drifted east across the Pacific Ocean. About 4.5 teragrams of particulate pollution each year could reach the western boundary of North America, which is about 15% of local emissions of particulate pollutants from the U.S. and Canada. In the last two decades, China has more than doubled its pollution production. This boom may be contributing to substantial changes in climate and weather in places far from the origin of the particulates. Never in human history-anywhere-has there been industrial growth like that in modern China. But with fast growth comes unintended consequences, and from space evidence of those consequences is starting to emerge. The research relies on measurements of something called \"aerosol optical thickness\". It's a quantitative measurement about how well a slice of atmosphere transmits light. The greater the value of optical thickness for a given location, the less light of a particular wavelength can pass through it. Measurements of aerosol optical thickness describe quantities of tiny particles in a given volume. By measuring how much light can penetrate a region of atmosphere across a variety of wavelengths, scientists can make certain inferences about the quantity and type of particles blocking that light. This visualization shows the seasonal variations of transport of pollution aerosols across the North Pacific. The East Asian airstream carries its largest pollution loading in spring and smallest in summer and fall. With heavy concentrations of aerosols represented by shades of brown, scientists can track the origins and distribution of the particles as they travel in the atmosphere. The sequence also shows a trail of substantial aerosol concentrations from a variety of sources. These sources include heavy industrial activity in East Asia associated with high population density represented in this sequence by gradations of black covering the land surface, and intense Russian forest fires in high latitudes. || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 2985, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2985/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2004-09-25T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Daily Snow and Sea Ice Temperature over Asia", "description": "This animation shows the global advance and retreat of daily snow cover along with daily sea ice surface temperature over Asia from September 2002 through May 2003. The snow cover was measured by the MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite, while the sea ice surface temperature was measured by the MODIS instrument on the Aqua satellite. Since these instruments cannot take measurements through clouds, in cloud-covered regions or areas with suspect data quality, the prior day's value is retained until a valid data reading is obtained. This visualization designates an area as covered by snow when the instrument takes a valid measurement showing greater than ~50% snow coverage in that area. This area is assumed to be snow covered until the instrument takes a valid measurement showing less than 40% snow coverage in that same area. A color bar indicates the sea ice surface temperature values. The satellite instruments are unable to collect data through darkness. The region in polar darkness is shown as a gray cap over the pole that grows and shrinks seasonally. A date slider indicates the progression of time. SeaWiFS Land Reflectance shows the seasonal changes in land cover. || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 2540, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2540/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-09-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fires over Asia during 2001 and 2002", "description": "This animation shows fire activity over Asia from 8/21/2001 to 8/20/2002. The fires are shown as tiny particles with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 10 days per second. The fire particles fade over 1.7 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray. || ", "hits": 4 }, { "id": 2541, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2541/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-09-05T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fires over Asia during 2001 and 2002 with Clock", "description": "This animation shows fire activity over Asia from 8/21/2001 to 8/20/2002. The fires are shown as tiny particles with each particle depicting the site at which a fire was detected. Daily fires are displayed at a rate of 10 days per second. The fire particles fade over 1.7 seconds and change color as they age from red to orange, yellow and gray. A clock inset indicates the date. || ", "hits": 4 }, { "id": 2485, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2485/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-07-04T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "MODIS Snow Cover over Asia", "description": "The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provides data in 36 spectral bands, some of which are used in an algorithm to map global snow cover. The animation shows the dynamic behavior of the advance and retreat of continental snow cover over Asia for the winter of 2001-02 from MODIS-derived 8-day composite snow maps with a spatial resolution of about 5 km. || ", "hits": 38 }, { "id": 2290, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2290/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-12-10T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Missing Link in Carbon Sink found in Northern Forests: Three Years of Biosphere Data, Europe and Asia focus", "description": "Using the Biosphere SeaWiFS Globe to help visualize the Carbon Sink Release. || This visualization uses the three years of data of theBiosphere, focused on Europe and Asia || a002290.00100_print.png (720x480) [296.9 KB] || a002290.00960_print.png (720x480) [375.1 KB] || a002290_pre.jpg (320x240) [6.1 KB] || a002290.webmhd.webm (960x540) [6.6 MB] || a002290.dv (720x480) [166.7 MB] || a002290.mpg (320x240) [3.3 MB] || ", "hits": 4 }, { "id": 2114, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2114/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-04-18T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dust Storms of Asia", "description": "A series of dust clouds originating with distinct wind events over Asia two weeks ago, have made their way across the Pacific and spread a whitish haze across half of the U.S., sources say.Gene Feldman, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD said aircraft have been monitoring the particulates in the dust clouds. Apparently, the dust clouds picked up industrial pollution from two of China's largest cities and are now blanketing the mid-Western United States with this matter. Dr. Feldman said, \"At one time, the dust cloud was bigger than Japan.\"As early as 1998, scientists were claiming that industrial pollution from China was spreading to the United States where pollution in the U.S. was rising to two-thirds the federal health limits. The current storm proves this theory to be true. Pollution from Asia is reaching in the U.S. in alarming amounts.The particulates in the dust clouds that reduce visibility and cause respiratory problems have not been measured in such high volume since Mt. St. Helens erupted, and even then, the particulates did not reach the ground as they are in this case.The dust storms could even reach the Eastern U.S., but experts say they will probably dissipate as they move across the midwest. || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 2115, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2115/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2001-04-18T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dust Storms of Asia Hits the Midwest", "description": "Despite experts predictions that the Asian dust storms that originated two weeks ago in Mongolia would not make it to the Eastern United States, satellite photos from the SeaWiFS confirms that the dust storms indeed did hit the Eastern U.S. by storm. || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 442, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/442/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1998-09-09T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Asia: Showing the Changing Seasons", "description": "SeaWiFS false color data showing seasonal change in the oceans and on land for Asia. 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