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Australian Fires Fueled Unprecedented Blooms

Iron-rich aerosols from the 2019-2020 fires fertilized huge phytoplankton populations in the far South Pacific.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data courtesy of Tang, W., et al. (2021) including data from the European Space Agency, and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Himawari imagery courtesy of the Japan Meteorological Agency. Story by Sara E. Pratt.

Published November 4, 2021
Data acquired 2019 - 2020

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Envisat > MERIS
Himawari-8 > Advanced Himawari Imager
Suomi NPP > VIIRS
Terra > MODIS