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Is climate change affecting Arctic cyclones?


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using VIIRS data. Caption by Adam Voiland with information from Robert Walsh, Xiangdong Zhang, and Stephen Vavrus.

Published August 10, 2012
Data acquired August 7, 2012

Source:
Suomi NPP > VIIRS