SAN FRANCISCO — NASA revealed the first-ever images of the global atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the key long-lived global warming gas. The imagery, taken over the course of three months, reveals details about springtime biomass being burned in the Southern Hemisphere, as well as photosynthesis from plants worldwide
The data comes from a new NASA satellite known as the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) that was launched on July 2 of this year.
At a media briefing on Thursday at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, as well as several universities discussed the data's importance for monitoring the global carbon cycle and improving the reliability of global climate models. Read more...
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