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Dust in the Dasht-e Kavir
Published December 1, 2017
Winds lofted sand and dust particles over northern Iran’s Great Salt Desert.
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Autumn Colors in North America
Published October 26, 2017
Peak autumn colors have arrived in some parts of the eastern United States and Canada.
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Explosive Fires in Northern California
Published October 10, 2017
Blazes that started on a few hundred acres around Napa Valley were fanned by strong northeasterly winds into more than 100,000 acres of burned land in just two days.
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Plankton Abloom in Washington’s Hood Canal
Published August 4, 2017
Water in this Pacific Northwest fjord resembles the color of the Caribbean Sea.
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Cyclonic Rotation off Portugal
Published July 25, 2017
In summer, the slow-moving systems often form clouds without any precipitation.
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Raised by Fire, Felled by Ice
Published January 3, 2017
Events on Earth’s surface can affect the development and shape of clouds in the sky.
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Hurricane Matthew Hits Haiti
Published October 5, 2016
At the time of landfall on October 4, 2016, Hurricane Matthew became the strongest storm to hit Haiti in more than 50 years.
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The Evolution of Hurricane Hermine
Published September 9, 2016
After hitting Florida as a tropical cyclone, Hermine transitioned into a very different type of storm.
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Stubble Burning in Punjab, India
Published November 13, 2015
As they do every fall, farmers in northern India burned crop residue following the harvest.
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Canadian Wildfires Produce River of Smoke
Published July 1, 2015
Smoke from fires in Canada streamed into the United States.
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At the Intersection of Coastal Peru and a Cloud Bank
Published June 14, 2015
Tendrils of fog outline river valleys as the Andes Mountains block advancing banks of ocean clouds.
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Phytoplankton Bloom off the Pacific Northwest
Published July 31, 2014
Upwelling currents and summer weather promoted a large bloom of floating, microscopic plants off the coast of Oregon and Washington.
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