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Topic: Atmosphere

The view from NASA’s WB-57 cockpit during a SABRE high-altitude research flight.

NOAA scientists link exotic particles in upper atmosphere to rockets, satellites

October 16, 2023

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The view from NASA’s WB-57 cockpit during a SABRE high-altitude research flight.

Williams Fork Fire burns in Coloarado.

Towering wildfire clouds have big impacts on the stratosphere

February 24, 2023

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Williams Fork Fire burns in Coloarado.

A rectangular tube is attached to the banister of a deck on a building. The deck overlooks mountains with some snow cover and a two lane road. Cloud cover is below the deck height, down in the valleys.

University of Hawaii, NOAA to gather climate change data following Mauna Loa eruption

December 16, 2022

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measurements and observations

A rectangular tube is attached to the banister of a deck on a building. The deck overlooks mountains with some snow cover and a two lane road. Cloud cover is below the deck height, down in the valleys.

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JetStream Max: What a Cycle!

November 11, 2022

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Cloudy sunset view of Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Greenhouse gas pollution trapped 49% more heat in 2021 than in 1990

May 23, 2022

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greenhouse gases

Cloudy sunset view of Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Aerial view of the Hudson River in New York City showing the area engulfed in grey smog.

Deodorant smells nice, but it's making cities smoggy

August 3, 2021

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Aerial view of the Hudson River in New York City showing the area engulfed in grey smog.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked for 2021 in May at a monthly average of 419 parts per million (ppm), the highest level since accurate measurements began 63 years ago, according to scientists from NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. (2019 photo of observatory grounds, Big Island, Hawaii.)

Rise of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere continues unabated

June 4, 2020

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measuring and modeling climate

Atmospheric carbon dioxide measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked for 2021 in May at a monthly average of 419 parts per million (ppm), the highest level since accurate measurements began 63 years ago, according to scientists from NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. (2019 photo of observatory grounds, Big Island, Hawaii.)

Sept. 9, 2019: A time-lapse image of NOAA staff at the South Pole launching a weather balloon fitted with an ozonesonde that measures vertical concentrations of ozone inside the ozone hole.

The 2019 ozone hole is the smallest ever recorded

October 21, 2019

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Sept. 9, 2019: A time-lapse image of NOAA staff at the South Pole launching a weather balloon fitted with an ozonesonde that measures vertical concentrations of ozone inside the ozone hole.

Going, going, gone: A NOAA weather balloon floats into the pre-dawn Antarctic sky over the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in this time-lapse photograph taken September 15, 2017. The balloon was carrying an ozonesonde -- instrument to measure ozone during NOAA's annual monitoring of the Antarctic ozone hole. Rising emissions of a strictly regulated chemical threatens recovery of the ozone hole, according to new NOAA research published in the journal Nature, May 16, 2018.

Emissions of an ozone-destroying chemical are rising again

May 16, 2018

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Going, going, gone: A NOAA weather balloon floats into the pre-dawn Antarctic sky over the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in this time-lapse photograph taken September 15, 2017. The balloon was carrying an ozonesonde -- instrument to measure ozone during NOAA's annual monitoring of the Antarctic ozone hole. Rising emissions of a strictly regulated chemical threatens recovery of the ozone hole, according to new NOAA research published in the journal Nature, May 16, 2018.

An artist's rendering of a Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.

International satellite partnerships help monitor complex and changing atmosphere

February 12, 2018

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geostationary satellite (GOES)

An artist's rendering of a Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.

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