What On Earth

air quality
Here is the list of entries for What On Earth based on the selected criteria.

AGU2011: How Satellites Can Fill the Gaps in Air Quality Maps Dec 08, 2011 07:52:07 PM | Adam Voiland
 
Better air quality maps are on the way.
› 2 Comments › Permalink

AGU2011: What Would Pristine Air Mean for the Climate? Dec 06, 2011 02:09:36 PM | Adam Voiland
 
Imagine that all the aerosols floating around in the air over the United States suddenly disappeared.
› 1 Comments › Permalink

Humisery 2011: No Ordinary View of Air Pollution Jul 28, 2011 08:20:51 PM | Adam Voiland
 
See what a lidar-based air pollution monitoring instrument sees when scientists go hunting for air pollution
› 4 Comments › Permalink

Has Sulfate Pollution from Asia Masked a Decade of Warming? Jul 06, 2011 03:40:19 PM | Adam Voiland
 
A new study suggests the decade-long lull in global warming that’s caused some to question the scientific underpinnings of climate change stems from large increases in sulfur dioxide emissions in Asia.
› 5 Comments › Permalink

Marylanders: Stop and Smell the Air this July as NASA Planes Buzz Overhead Jul 01, 2011 07:51:42 AM | Adam Voiland
 
Have you ever stopped to wonder why urban air can taste like singed rubber one day and like crisp mountain air the next?
› 6 Comments › Permalink

Massive Air Pollution Event Highlights Sulfur Dioxide Trends in China Oct 15, 2010 05:54:31 PM | Adam Voiland
 
This spectacular cloud of smog and haze formed over eastern China last week when a high-pressure weather system moved in to the area, allowing industrial and burning byproducts to settle with little disturbance from winds.
› 4 Comments › Permalink

Behind the Scenes With Scientists Who Created A Global Air Pollution Map Sep 24, 2010 11:23:22 AM | Adam Voiland
 
Yesterday, NASA posted an article about a new global map of health-sapping PM2.5 air pollution. Here more about it straight from the map's makers.
› 5 Comments › Permalink

A Tale of Two Kenyas: Contradictions in Air Quality Stirred Researcher’s Pursuit of Atmospheric Science Jul 27, 2010 12:23:46 PM | Adam Voiland
 
NASA's Charles Kironji Gatebe grew up barefoot and poor in the small Kenyan village of Kenda at the foot of Mount Kenya, the son of coffee sharecroppers who raised their family on pennies a day, but later fashioned an award-winning career in atmospheric science studying air pollution in his native country.
› 11 Comments › Permalink

What on Earth is That? #1 Oct 20, 2011 04:41:16 PM | Adam Voiland
 
We are constantly stumbling across all sorts of odd photos, video, and audio clips from our exploration of the Earth (be if from space, the field, or the lab.) Whether it is a satellite image captured from thousands of miles up, the roar of a B-200 research aircraft, or a microscopic view of a cloud droplet, there is always something strange and wonderful passing across our desks.
› 147 Comments › Permalink

Smog Blog Outtakes Jun 23, 2011 12:10:06 PM | Adam Voiland
 
On Earth Day, we published an interview about the "smog blog" created by Ray Hoff of the University of Maryland – Baltimore County.
› 6 Comments › Permalink
RSS

Search Blogs