Aerosol Optical Depth in 2006

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Smoke from Fires in Russia and Alaska

This false-color image shows where airborne particles absorbed sunlight over the Arctic on August 1-2, 2009. The aerosols resulted from multiple large fires in the region.

Atmosphere Dust and Haze

Five Years of MISR Global Aerosol Observations

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Aerosol Blanket Likely Thinned During 1990s

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Dust Over East Africa and Israel

Dust and Haze

Bushfires Raging in Southeast Australia

Fires

Distinguishing Natural Aerosols from Human Pollution

By measuring precisely how much light is reflected at visible and near-infrared wavelengths, the MODIS sensors can also distinguish between aerosol plumes of large particles (more than 1 micrometer) and small particles (less than 1 micrometer).

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Dust blowing out of West Africa

Satellite instruments such as CALIPSO can measure the distribution of aerosols in a vertical slice of the atmosphere, as with this dust plume off the west coast of Africa on April 22, 2010.

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Global and Seasonal Aerosol Distributions from MISR

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OMI Sees the Soot Within Smoke

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