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New Features and Data Added to U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center Portal

Interactive stories along with urban-relevant datasets are the latest updates to the portal.

News

Oct. 30, 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

This image from the first light release of data from the TEMPO mission shows areas air pollution over the New York City and Washington, DC.

TEMPO Mission Releases Beta Level 1, 2, and 3 Version 03 Data Products

The beta release of Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission data products lets users begin developing applications using these data.

News

May 30, 2024

A visualization of nitrogen dioxide emissions over North America from the TEMPO instrument.

New TEMPO Beta Level 1 Data Products

These new Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) products will aid validation efforts and algorithm development, and will be used to expand the mission’s higher-level products.

Feature Article

Feb. 27, 2024

Outdoor evening image of a fiery methane plume coming out of a tall black pipe.

U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center Focus of Workshop at AMS Annual Meeting

A workshop at the 2024 American Meteorological Society (AMS) meeting helped attendees maximize their use of openly available data offered through the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center.

Blog

Feb. 14, 2024

$Diffraction grating within the TEMPO instrument separates the light into different wavelengths to discern the unique patterns of the various pollutants.$

New Instrument Provides Hourly Measurements of Atmospheric Pollutants

NASA's Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of POllution (TEMPO) instrument will revolutionize air quality monitoring over North America.

Feature Article

Jan. 11, 2024

High Aerosol Optical Depth over India

True color corrected reflectance image acquired Nov 15, 2023, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite and overlaid with aerosol optical thickness values.

Worldview Image of the Week

Nov. 16, 2023

A man walks through the Acropolis while smoke plumes billow from a forest fire near Athens on July 25, 2007.

Smoke over Athens

The effects of forest fires show up in a multi-satellite view of pollution.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

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