MOPITT Images and Outreach

Press releases

• NASA GSFC press release, May 30, 2001
• Visible Earth site
• UCAR News Release, Feb 4, 2003.
• Environment News Service, Feb 7, 2003
• Satellites See Lightning Strikes In Ozone's Origins July 14, 2003
  Stories also at NASA's Earth Observatory and UCAR
• NASA's Terra Satellite Tracks Global Pollution, May 18, 2004
  Story also at NASA's Earth Observatory
• NCAR Analysis Shows Widespread Pollution from 2004 Wildfires, NCAR Press Release, June 29, 2005

NASA Earth Observatory

• First Global Carbon Monoxide (Air Pollution) Measurements
• CO from biomass burning over South America (Mar and Sep 2000)
• Pollution over Houston, Texas, September 6-15, 2002 (Image of the Day, Jan 31, 2003)
• CO over Eastern China, Jan 1-3, 2003
• Pollution over China, Jan 1-20, 2003
• Pollution over China, Jan 27-Feb 2, 2003
• Fires in Southeastern Australia, Jan 15-20, 2003
• Widely Scattered Fires across North Africa, Jan 27-Feb 2, 2003
• Fires in Southeast Asia, Feb 20-25, 2003
• Fires in Southeast Asia, Feb 27-Mar 4, 2003
• Fires Across the Llanos, Feb 24-Mar 4, 2003
• Fires Across Northern South America, Mar 13-18, 2003
• Fires in West Africa, Mar 13-18, 2003
• Fires on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mar 18-22, 2003
• Fires in Southeast Asia, Apr 3-13, 2003
• Pollution from Fires in Central America, Apr 25-May 1, 2003 (New Image, May 7, 2003)
• Smoke Over Eastern Russia, May 3-8, 2003
• Biomass burning in Central and Southern Africa, June 1-10, 2003
• Fires in Indonesia, June 1-10, 2003
• Forest Fires in Portugal, Aug 1-7, 2003
• Fires in Western Canada, Aug 1-7, 2003
• Carbon Monoxide from California Fires, Oct 26-31, 2003 (Image of the Day, Nov 4, 2003)
  also on: Natural Hazards page
• Pollution over China, Feb 2004
• Pollution from Fires Across Northwest Africa, Feb 1-25, 2004
• Seasonal Carbon Monoxide Measurements (New Image, May 25, 2004)
• Lightning Triggers Fires Across Alaska, June 2004
• Fires in Sumatra, June 17-24, 2004
• Carbon Monoxide from African Fires, June, 2004 (New Image, July 14, 2004)
• Smoke from Alaska Fires, July 12-26, 2004
• Smoke from Brazilian Fires, July 19-26, 2004
• Carbon Monoxide over Indonesia, Aug 5-20, 2004
• Smoke from Alaska Fires, Aug 10-20, 2004
• Carbon Monoxide over South America, Sep 1-10, 2004
• Carbon Monoxide in the Southern Hemisphere, February and September, 2004
• Carbon Monoxide over Indonesia, Sep 15-Oct 15, 2004
• Carbon Monoxide over Africa, Nov 21-28, 2004
• Carbon Monoxide in Africa and Asia, Dec 2-12, 2004
• Fires in Southeast Asia, Jan 20-30, 2005
• Smoke over Central America, Apr 10-20, 2005
• Air Quality Emergency in Malaysia Aug 1-15, 2005
• Fires in Portugal Aug 15-21, 2005

Plots of V3 data

• Daily maps
• Monthly average maps

Movies

Animation created by American Museum of Natural History, October 2004

Animation of three years of MOPITT data with commentary. This movie is also currently being shown in the NCAR Mesa Lab lobby (near the library).

Movies created at NCAR/ACD

•  CO isosurface (5MB avi)
  This animation shows 180 parts of ozone per billion parts of air (ppb) of carbon monoxide concentration superimposed on the Earth's topography. The animation represents approximately one month of data, with eight frames per day. Scientists obtained these results by integrating carbon monoxide measurements from the instrument, Measurements of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) on-board the Terra satellite with the three-dimensional chemistry transport model MOZART 2 originally developed at the Atmospheric Chemistry Division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Note that a preliminary or a "beta" version of the MOPITT data were used in this experiment.
  Animation provided by B. Khattatov and J-F. Lamarque, NCAR. MOPITT CO data provided by NCAR MOPITT group headed by John Gille. MOZART model has been developed by scientists from NCAR and Max Planck Institute-Hamburg.
•  CO isosurface (88MB avi)
  Same as above but for 9 months in 2000 (March-December). Larger file.
•  assim_quicktime_5fps.mov (27MB quicktime)
  A quicktime movie of assimilated CO at 500 mb for August - December 2000.
•  bin_l2_quicktime_5fps.mov (17MB quicktime)
  A quicktime animation of binned 500mb Level 3 data for 2000-2001.
•  MOPITT CO Mar-Dec 2000 at 500 mbar (12MB avi)
  MPEG4 movie of assimilated CO at 500 mb for August - December 2000.
• Animation of the assimilated Phase 1 MOPITT CO in MOZART-2, at 700 hPa (created by V. Yudin):
  • Globe (25 MB AVI)
  • N. Pacific (20 MB AVI)
  • MOZART alone (20 MB AVI)

Movies created by NASA of images generated at NCAR (files at NASA/GSFC)

•  Global map
•  Transport from Asia
•  South Atlantic
•  Rotating globe

MOPITT and GOES Imagery (from CIMSS GOES)

• Montana fires
• South America fires

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