Tagged: Earth Observatory

Canadian megafires send smoke round the globe - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Jul 11, 2013 •

• Canada,
• Climate Science,
• Dark Snow,
• Earth Observatory,
• Greenland,
• Jason Box,
• Norway,
• Peter Sinclair,
• wildfires

Massive forest fires are raging beyond control in Quebec, sending huge plumes of smoke to the east. The Eastmain fire — top left in this image from NASA’s Earth Observatory — is spreading towards the east coast of James Bay, the southernmost extension of Hudson Bay, and is currently estimated to cover an area of […] … Read More

Ice bottom blues - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Sep 19, 2012 •

• Arctic sea ice,
• Climate Science,
• Earth Observatory,
• Greenland,
• Greenpeace,
• Julienne Stroeve,
• NASA,
• NSIDC,
• Peter Wadhams,
• Petermann glacier

According to the latest bulletin from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in the US, Arctic sea ice is likely to be at or about its minimum extent for the summer (as of Sept 17th). The animation above shows how the ice melt proceeded through the summer (up to Sept 14th), and the graph [...] … Read More

Polar projections - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Jun 22, 2012 •

• Antarctica,
• arctic,
• Arctic sea ice,
• Climate Science,
• Earth Observatory,
• NASA,
• Russia,
• WAIS

This stunning view of the Arctic and the northern hemisphere was captured by the Suomi-NPP satellite a couple of weeks ago. You can clearly see where the Arctic sea ice is beginning to melt and break up (the bluish bits of offshore ice). More on the image at the Earth Observatory. Meanwhile, new research indicates [...] … Read More

High and dry - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Jun 09, 2012 •

• Climate Science,
• Earth Observatory,
• Limestone Hills,
• MetService,
• NASA,
• nz,
• snow

From NASA’s Earth Observatory: yesterday’s Image Of The Day (RSS feed) was this stunning picture of an intense high pressure system over the Great Australian Bight to the southwest of Tasmania, acquired by the MODIS sensor on the Aqua satellite on June 5th. In high pressure systems, dry descending air suppresses cloud formation, in this [...] … Read More

Wet, wet, wet - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Jul 19, 2011 •

• Arctic sea ice,
• Climate Science,
• Earth Observatory,
• Jeff Masters,
• NOAA,
• NSIDC

Sunshine is pouring down on the Arctic, and the high summer melting season is well under way. This photograph from NASA’s Earth Observatory shows crew from the US Coast Guard cutter Healey collecting a supply drop canister from melt ponds on the surface of the ice in the Beaufort Sea during the current Icescape exercise. [...] … Read More

The view from on high - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • May 27, 2011 •

• Climate Science,
• Earth Observatory,
• NASA,
• nz

NASA’s Earth Observatory has just undergone a web makeover — all very shiny and nice — and yesterday celebrated with a very beautiful image of New Zealand, captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite (click on the image above for the full hi-res 17MB file). As the site says, it [...] … Read More