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Monthly Average Daily TCWV from AIRS for July 2025

Water Vapor Data Helps Meteorologists Predict Whether a Storm Will Strengthen or Weaken

NASA's AIRS instrument provides information about precipitable water vapor, a key variable in determining the potential strength of hurricanes and tropical cyclones.

Blog

Sept. 30, 2025

NASA CSDA Vendor Focus- PlanetiQ

Join us on Tues., Sept. 30, to learn more about NASA CSDA program vendor PlanetiQ and to learn how to discover, access, and work with their GNSS Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO) data.

Webinar

Sept. 16, 2025

A view of Queensland, Australia, the study area from Pringle and others (2018) showing the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) layer from the Terra MODIS Vegetation Indices data product during the austral summer 2017

Learn to Use Solar Induced Fluorescence Data to Assess Changes in Vegetation

This training, offered by NASA's ARSET program, explores how solar induced fluorescence is used to assess changes in vegetation in regard to droughts, floods, and fires.

News

Sept. 15, 2025

A screen capture from the USGS's Water Information from SPace (WISP) application that shows USGS water gauges and global water monitoring sites.

USGS Releases WISP Dashboard

The Water Information from SPace (WISP) dashboard brings together data from NASA’s SWOT satellite and USGS streamgages in a user-friendly application.

Blog

July 30, 2025

This is an image of infrared brightness temperatures showing Hurricane Mitch on October 26, 1998, at 18:00 UTC. Cloud tops reached frigid temperatures of 196 K, indicating intense convective activity and likely overshooting tops at 16 km altitude. The hurricane’s track is overlaid, with the deepest red symbol marking a central pressure of 905 mb. Mitch remains one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record, with more than 9,000 lives lost, primarily from flooding in Honduras and Nicaragua.

Over 25 Years of Global Infrared Data Now Available

The  Climate Prediction Center (CPC) 4 km Infrared (IR) dataset archive now extends back to January 1998, offering over 25 years of high-resolution infrared observations and continuing into the present.

News

June 20, 2025

ICEYE satellite in orbit over an erupting volcano.

NASA CSDA Program Vendor Focus—ICEYE US

Learn more about the NASA Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program vendor ICEYE US and how to discover, access, and work with ICEYE's high-resolution SAR products.

Webinar

April 15, 2025