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Greening Landscape Changes Air Flow

Global warming would be worse were it not for extra vegetation that changes how and where heat builds up across the landscape.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data from Chen, C., et al. (2020). Story by Michael Carlowicz, with Kassie Perlongo, NASA Ames Research Center.

Published March 10, 2021
Data acquired 2000 - 2014

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Model
Terra > MODIS