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Dust storm, White Sands, New Mexico
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Published March 14, 2008
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Chorabari Glacier, India
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Because Indian glaciers have not been studied in detail for the past several decades, assessing their long-term trends has been difficult. More recent studies, however, suggest they are vulnerable to rising temperatures, which increased by 2.2 degrees Celsius (3.96 degrees Fahrenheit) between the 1980s and the new millennium.
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Haze over the Sea of Japan
Published March 13, 2008
A thick swath of smog and/or dust swept over the Sea of Japan on March 11, 2008. A significant portion of the plume could result from dust remaining from an earlier storm.
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Lunar Eclipse from Orbit
On February 20, 2008, sky gazers from the central Pacific to Africa saw the full Moon turn a striking red as it passed into Earth’s shadow. From space, the lunar eclipse deepened the darkness of the night. The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s (DMSP) F16 satellite captured this view of the eclipse as the satellite flew over the nighttime side of the Earth in a series of overpasses.
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Smoke Over the Amazon in 2005 and 2006
Published March 12, 2008
In 2005, at the tail end of a multi-year dry spell, the annual dry season in the Amazon south of the equator ballooned into an unrelenting drought. Agricultural fires, now a fixture on the Amazon frontier from August through mid-October, invaded adjacent forests on a large scale. Thick smoke hung over the forest off and on for months.
Heavy Rain Floods South America
Published March 11, 2008
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Tropical Cyclone Jokwe
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Fires Rise in the Amazon
For many atmospheric scientists, the Amazon Rainforest is a natural cloud laboratory. The vegetation exhales tremendous amounts of water vapor that drapes over the forest as a thick mist. The mist blends with layers of clouds that can reach from the treetops to altitudes of 10 kilometers. When the air over the Amazon is clear, the clouds that form over the forest are so like maritime clouds that scientists have referred to the Amazon as “the Green Ocean.” But increasingly, the air over the Amazon is not clear, at least not during the annual dry season.
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Activity on Anatahan
Published March 10, 2008
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Fires North of Amur River, Russia
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Dust Storms over the Middle East
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