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LDCM Looks for Water Amidst the Heat
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Published April 23, 2013
Thermal infrared imagery of the Southern California desert picks up the invisible water in the farmland around the Salton Sea.
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Hot and Cold in the Arizona Desert
Published April 18, 2013
The Thermal Infrared Sensor on the newest Landsat provides insight into something invisible to human eyes: the temperature of the land surface.
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Unusual Cold in China and Northeast Asia
Published January 24, 2013
Frigid temperatures gripped China in early January 2013. This map shows temperature anomalies for that period.
North America Swelters in March Heat
Published April 17, 2012
Temperatures were well above the norm for the month, setting records and rising well above the long-term trends.
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Snow Deficit
Published March 30, 2012
What a difference one year has made in the snow cover over North America.
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Historic Heat in North America Turns Winter to Summer
Published March 21, 2012
Unseasonably warm temperatures broke records across the United States.
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Diagnosing the Snow Deficit of December
Published February 8, 2012
The Arctic Oscillation, La Niña, and North Atlantic Oscillation combine to steer winter's cold, snowy weather away from the United States.
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2011 Global Temperatures
Published January 20, 2012
Analysis of global temperatures shows that the year was the 9th hottest in the past 130 years. Nine of the ten warmest years have occurred since 2000.
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U.S. Heat Wave and Earth’s Energy Balance
Published August 31, 2011
July’s extreme heat in the United States radiated energy out into space as shown in this image from July 22, 2011.
Heat Wave Across the United States
Published August 6, 2011
This map depicts land surface temperature anomalies for July 20 to 27, 2011, in the midst of a month-long heatwave across much of the United States.
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Deadly Cold Across Europe and Russia
Published December 25, 2009
Land surface temperatures across Europe and Russia were far below the 2000–2008 average in mid-December 2009.
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Exceptional Australian Heat Wave
Published February 5, 2009
A broad swath of above-average land surface temperatures stretched across southern Australia in late January and early February 2009.
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