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ACTIVATE Data Workshop 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.
Event
Sept. 30, 2023
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

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.
Worldview Image of the Week
Sept. 28, 2023
A headshot of Dr. Fred Bingham Professor, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Department of Physics & Physical Oceanography. He is wearing a blue oxford shirt and posing before a turquoise background.

Dr. Frederick Bingham

Salinity data from NASA’s Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) help Dr. Frederick Bingham study ocean dynamics.
Data User Story
Sept. 28, 2023
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Building an AI Foundation Model for Weather and Climate

A recent workshop brought together experts from NASA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), IBM Research, NVIDIA, and several universities to develop a plan to create an artificial intelligence foundation model (AI FM) for weather and climate.
News
Sept. 26, 2023
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.

Weather Ballooning from Space

A NASA-funded project is creating a cloud-based radio occultation data archive for atmospheric researchers.
Feature Article
Sept. 18, 2023
High Aerosol Index from Fires in Canada on 4 September 2023 from the VIIRS and OMPS instruments aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite

High Aerosol Index from Smoky Canadian Fires

Base image acquired Sep 4, 2023, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite and overlaid with Aerosol Index values from the OMPS instrument.
Worldview Image of the Week
Sept. 7, 2023
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