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Pavlof Erupts Again
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Published April 3, 2016
After a year of relative calm, the Alaskan volcano burst back into action in late March 2016.
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Measuring the Height of Smoke over Borneo
Published January 18, 2016
Scientists use a satellite called CALIPSO to study smoke plumes.
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Changing Views of Fine Particulate Pollution
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Published June 24, 2015
Improved data from several satellites illustrates how concentrations of fine particulate pollution have changed over time.
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Siberian Smoke on the Move
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Published April 23, 2015
Wildfires in southern Siberia lofted smoke high into the troposphere.
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Smoke Above the Clouds
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Published October 17, 2014
Whether a smoke or dust plume has a heating—or cooling—effect on the atmosphere can depend on whether it is above clouds.
Seeing through Sakha’s Smoke
Published July 30, 2014
With dozens of wildfires burning in a part of Russia best known for its frigid winters, the CALIPSO satellite offered this view through the clouds and smoke.
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Indonesia’s Mount Kelut Erupts
Published February 15, 2014
NASA satellites detected ash from Mount Kelut nearly 20 kilometers (12 miles) in the atmosphere within two hours of the explosive February 13 eruption.
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A Vertical View of Wildfire Smoke as it Heads to Sea
Published June 28, 2013
As satellites observed, an intense wildfire in Quebec, Canada, lofted smoke high into the atmosphere in June 2013. Winds then drove the smoke across the Atlantic Ocean all the way to Europe.
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Whitewater-Baldy Fire in New Mexico
Published June 6, 2012
The height of a wildfire's smoke plume is key to understanding how far it will blow.
Dust and Pollution Rise Before the Monsoon
Published August 24, 2011
In the weeks before India’s monsoon rains, dust, smoke, and haze build over the Ganges River Plain. This image provides a profile of the atmosphere during one of those pollution periods.
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Ash Plume from Puyehue-Cordón Caulle
Published June 14, 2011
Acquired June 5, 2011, this image shows infrared nighttime observations and an atmospheric profile of the volcanic ash plume from Puyehue-Cordón Caulle in Chile.
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CALIPSO Spies Polar Stratospheric Clouds
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Published February 9, 2011
NASA’s Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation caught a top-down glimpse of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs), also known as nacreous clouds.
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Dust blowing out of West Africa
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Published November 27, 2010
Satellite instruments such as CALIPSO can measure the distribution of aerosols in a vertical slice of the atmosphere, as with this dust plume off the west coast of Africa on April 22, 2010.
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Fire Cloud over Northern Russia
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Published September 1, 2010
This profile of the atmosphere provides a rare view of a towering fire-formed thunderstorm and the smoke it injected high into the atmosphere.
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Nighttime Ash Tracking with CALIPSO
Published May 25, 2010
A satellite records a vertical profile of the atmosphere and reveals the altitude of ash clouds.
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