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False-color image composite of dust moving across the USA as captured by the ABI instrument aboard the GOES-West satellite on March 18, 2025 at 22:00 UTC

Dust Blowing Across the U.S.

Image captured at 6:00 p.m. EDT on Mar 18, 2025, by the ABI instrument aboard the GOES-West/GOES-18 platform.

Worldview Image of the Week

March 20, 2025

This is a color, visible light image of the atmospheric river over the Gulf of Alaska. On the left side of the image is the blue ocean with the massive white tail and swirl of the atmospheric river spinning counterclockwise over it. To the right is the brown and green of the North American West Coast with clouds over it.

ACTIVATE's 2024 Data Webinar Materials

The ACTIVATE team hosted its final science team meeting on November 20, 2024.

Event

Nov. 20, 2024

Base corrected reflectance image with aerosol index acquired on November 12, 2024, by the Suomi NPP/VIIRS instrument overlaid with AERONET sites showing ground-based aerosol optical depth measurements.

Smog over Pakistan

Base corrected reflectance image acquired on Nov 12, 2024, with aerosol index overlaid with ground-based aerosol optical depth measurements.

Worldview Image of the Week

Nov. 14, 2024

False-color corrected reflectance image of the Mountain Fire in Ventura County, California on November 6, 2024 from the VIIRS instrument aboard the NOAA-20 satellite.

Mountain Fire, Ventura County, California

Image captured on Nov 6, 2024, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the NOAA-20 platform.

Worldview Image of the Week

Nov. 7, 2024

NASA’s King Air (left) and Falcon (right), the two aircraft used in the Aerosol Cloud Meteorology Interactions over the Western Atlantic Experiment (ACTIVATE) airborne field campaign.

ACTIVATE Open Data Workshop 2024

Join NASA's Aerosol Cloud Meteorology Interactions Over the Western Atlantic Experiment (ACTIVATE) team for a workshop about this airborne field campaign and its data.

Event

Nov. 4, 2024

Thick smoke from fires in Bolivia and Brazil on 28 August 2024 from the VIIRS instrument aboard the NOAA-20 satellite

Thick Smoke from Fires in Brazil and Bolivia

Image captured on Aug 28, 2024, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-20 satellite.

Worldview Image of the Week

Aug. 29, 2024

This screen capture from NASA Worldview shows the locations of widespread thermal anomalies and smoke haze in Thailand and neighboring Cambodia.

FIRMS Helps Thai Officials Manage Fire and Smoke Haze

Geographer Veerachai Tanpipat promotes the use of NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) throughout the Lower Mekong River Region.

Feature Article

Aug. 20, 2024

True-color corrected reflectance image overlaid with aerosol optical depth from the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite. Image also has AERONET sites showing aerosol optical depth.

High Aerosol Optical Depth from Canadian Wildfires

Base corrected reflectance image with aerosol optical thickness acquired on August 15, 2024, by the Suomi NPP/VIIRS instrument overlaid with AERONET sites showing ground-based aerosol optical depth measurements.

Worldview Image of the Week

Aug. 16, 2024

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