Relative Amounts of Bad Ozone Ingredients Across the U.S.

These maps show how the relative amounts of the key ingredients for ozone (smog) formation in the United States change throughout the summer.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Relative Amounts of Bad Ozone Ingredients Across the U.S..

NASA image by Jesse Allen, based on data provided by Bryan Duncan and Yasuko Yoshida, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey and Michon Scott, based on interpretation provided by Bryan Duncan.

Published August 7, 2009
Data acquired July 1 - September 30, 2005

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