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Wildfires

NASA provides many resources for monitoring and tracking wildfires.

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Open Science

Open Science empowers an inclusive, collaborative scientific process through the open sharing of data and knowledge.

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Air Quality

Air pollution is one of the largest global environmental and health threats.

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User Profile: Dr. Frederick Bingham
Salinity data from NASA’s Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) help Dr. Frederick Bingham study ocean dynamics.
This graphic shows a global positioning system satellite beaming a signal through Earth's atmosphere. The navigation satellite is on the far left of the image and has an orange-colored signal line extending in a straight line to the right. A light blue box with the words GPS Satellite is in the upper left corner. In the lower right corner of the image is Earth colored in blue and green. The image background is colored black.
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Weather Ballooning from Space
A NASA Advancing Collaborative Connections for Earth System Science (ACCESS) project is creating a cloud-based radio occultation data archive for…
This image depicts the FAIR principles within a blue rectangle overlaid across Earth. At its center is a smaller, lighter blue rectangle with the word FAIR inside of it. Surrounding the center of the image and starting from the upper left and moving counterclockwise around the image are the words “findable” with an icon of a folder and magnifying glass; “accessible” with an icon of an open door; “reusable” with a circular recycling-style symbol; and “interoperable” with a graphic of two meshing gears.
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Making Earth Science Data FAIR
NASA is working to ensure Earth science and other data are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) by machines and people.
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Data Tool in Focus: Data Rods for Hydrology
Data Rods for Hydrology offers easy access to time-series data for a point location.
Dr. David Peterson, Naval Research Laboratory meteorologist poses with a globe showing wavy patterns of satellite data. Peterson is in a white, button-down shirt and sitting in the lobby of a large office building. A staircase with a white railing can be seen in the background.
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Data Chat: Dr. David Peterson
For meteorologist David Peterson, Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) data are crucial for studying pyrocumulonimbus events.
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ACTIVATE Data Workshop
Sep 30, 2023

Join NASA's Aerosol Cloud Meteorology Interactions Over the Western Atlantic Experiment (ACTIVATE) science team for a free and open hybrid data workshop Nov 13-15, 2023.

Webinar: Discover Enhanced Wildfire System Capabilities with NASA’s FIRMS
Sep 29, 2023

Join us Oct 18 at 2 p.m., EDT [UTC -4], to learn how to use NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) and its enhanced User Interface that provides additional services and analysis capabilities for wildfire management.

NASA Earth Science Data Roundup: October 2023
Sep 29, 2023

A summary of datasets, products, and resources released by NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in September 2023.

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Canadian Wildfire Smoke over the Atlantic Ocean on 27 September 2023 from the VIIRS and OMPS instruments aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite
Sep 28, 2023
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Canadian Wildfire Smoke over the Atlantic Ocean

Base image acquired Sep 27, 2023, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite and overlaid with Aerosol Index values from the OMPS instrument.

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