NASA Earth Observations (comp.)
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070352-0400
Aerosol Particle Radius (8 day - Aqua/MODIS, 2002-16)
raster digital data
https://neo.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=MYDAL2_E_AER_RA
Tiny solid and liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere are called aerosols. These particles are important to scientists because they can affect climate, weather, and people's health. Some aerosols come from natural sources, such as dust, volcanic eruptions, and sea salts. Some aerosols are produced by humans, such as pollution from industries or automobiles, or smoke from fires. Using satellites scientists can tell whether a given plume of aerosols came from a natural source, or if is pollution produced by people. Two important clues about aerosols' sources are particle size and location of the plume. Natural aerosols (such as dust and sea salts) tend to be larger particles than man-made aerosols (such as smoke and industrial pollution).]]>
To make image representations of these data easily accessible.
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Imagery produced by the NASA Earth Observations team based on data provided by the MODIS Atmosphere Science Team, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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20240329
Kevin Ward
Science Systems and Applications, Inc. / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NEO Architect & Developer
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Greenbelt
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USA
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kevin.a.ward@nasa.gov
FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
1998
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