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Snow on Honshu
Published February 7, 2006
Snow is a rare sight in Japan’s capital city, Tokyo. But on January 25, 2006, snow is exactly what this image shows. Tokyo, located in the upper right portion of the image, was hit with a rare snow storm on January 21. As much as 3.5 inches fell in the center of the city...
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Snow, fog, and low clouds in Central Europe
Published February 6, 2006
A series of images demonstrate how satellite imagery can been used to distinguish –and map – between snow and clouds. The first image that displays is a “true color composite” image of snow, fog, and low clouds in Central Europe. With this type of image...
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Cloud streets along the Alaska Peninsula
Published February 4, 2006
The striking patterns visible in this image are called “cloud streets”. Cloud streets are a regular feature of the middle and high latitudes; these are located along the Alaska Peninsula, just south of Anchorage. Cloud streets form when...
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Floods in Bolivia
Published February 3, 2006
Widespread flooding raged across Bolivia during the final week of January 2006 after thunderstorms inundated the country with heavy rain. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured the image of flooding in the southwestern desert on January 29, 2006; this is the image that displays when you first open the page. The floods appear to have turned...
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Eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska
Published February 2, 2006
The Augustine Volcano was continuing to erupt, spewing ash, steam, and gases high into the atmosphere, when this image was acquired on January 30, 2006. The eruption began on Friday, January 27. The volcano is located on an uninhabited island
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Thick Smog over China
Published February 1, 2006
Skies over China have darkened in the past five decades, thanks to a nine-fold increase fossil-fuel emissions. Yun Qian and collaborators examined data from over 500 weather stations, finding a reduction overcast days and an increase in cloud-free days. In January 2006, they reported these results in the journal...
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Phytoplankton bloom in the Black Sea
Published January 31, 2006
Phytoplankton are tiny, microscopic plants that form the base of the food web in marine ecosystems; they are consumed by zooplankton, or microscopic animals, which in turn are eaten by variety of fish, whales, and birds. A large population or bloom was occurring in the Black Sea (the body of water in the upper right corner of the image) when this image was acquired on January 29, 2006. Often blooms such as this one are fed by the upwelling of nutrients
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Snow storm across the Upper Midwest
Published January 30, 2006
The first snow storm of 2006 dumped several inches of snow across a wide swath of the Midwest, with snowfall totals from four to five inches recorded in Chicago to as much as a foot just north of the city. Beyond the traffic accidents caused by icy roads, the storm was not a remarkable one. It did, however...
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Cloud patterns in the Bering Sea
Published January 29, 2006
The Aleutian Islands seem to be dividing two large weather systems in this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image, collected on January 21, 2006, by NASA’s Terra satellite. The clouds define the lines of high and low air pressure as well as any weather map. In the top of the image...
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Snow Storm in Colorado
Published January 28, 2006
A big snowstorm brought much-needed moisture to the state of Colorado on January 19, 2006. As reported by the Rocky Mountain News, before the storm, the state’s assistant climatologist had warned that drought was beginning to affect the foothills west of the Denver metro area and the plains to the east of the city. A week later...
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Fire in Victoria, Australia
Published January 27, 2006
A massive plume of smoke from a large fire event dominates this image of Victoria, Australia acquired on January 24, 2005. This raging brushfire is still occurring in and around Grampians National Park, west of Melbourne. As of January 26, 2006...
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Fires in Western Australia
Published January 26, 2006
Smoke from several fires merges to form a giant plume in this image of Western Australia, near the coastal city of Perth. At least some of the fires in the area (in the towns of Yarloop and Waroona, south of the city) began on Sunday, January 22, 2006, a day before this image was acquired. The cause is still under investigation...
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