NASA and NOAA Take to the Air to Chase Smoke
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- Samson K. Reiny (Wyle Information Systems) [Lead]
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- Kathryn Mersmann (KBRwyle) [Lead]
- Ellen T. Gray (NASA/HQ)
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NASA Studies How Arctic Fires Change the World
Aug. 13th, 2019
Read moreMusic: Stepping Stone Bridge by Timothy Michael Hammond [PRS], Wayne Roberts [PRS]Watching Ladybirds by Benjamin James Parsons [PRS] This video can be freely shared and downloaded. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, some individual imagery provided by pond5.com and Artbeats is obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on stock footage may be found here. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html. Complete transcript available. Wildfires in the Arctic often burn far away from population centers, but their impacts are felt around the globe. From field and laboratory work to airborne campaigns and satellites, NASA is studying how climate change is contributing to more frequent and powerful boreal forest and tundra fires and what that means for climate forecasting, ecosystems and human health.To learn more about ABoVE, visit:https://above.nasa.gov For More InformationSee [nasa.gov/fire](nasa.gov/fire) Related pages
New NASA Campaign Tracks Wildfire Smoke for Improved Air Quality Forecasts Live Shots
Aug. 6th, 2019
Read moreB-roll for the following suggested questions:1. We all know NASA as a space agency. How can NASA’s unique perspective inform us about wildfires?2. NASA researchers are in the field right now tracking smoke from wildfires. What are they seeing from the air and ground?3. This June was the hottest June on record, with early data pointing to July being the warmest month on record. What impact has that had on this year’s fire season?4. When you think of wildfires, you usually associate that with the western part of the U.S. How can wildfires affect us throughout the world?5. How does a changing planet contribute to longer and hotter wildfires?6. Where can people learn more?Click here for on-camera canned interviewsClick here for audio interviews and NAT sound Canned interview with Dr. Doug Morton/ NASA Scientist Click download button for audio file.Scientist Dr. Doug Morton talks about how NASA keeps an eye on wildfires from space. TRT 1:39 Click download button for audio file.Scientist Dr. Doug Morton talks about how NASA keeps an eye on wildfires from space. TRT :23 Click download button for audio file.The DC-8, the largest plane participating in the FIREX-AQ campaign, is tasked with flying through smoke from wildfires to capture data on as many as 500 chemicals in a single plume. Listen as the DC-8 takes off for its 6-hour flight over a wildfire burning in Idaho. Canned interview with NASA Scientist Dr. Elizabeth Hoy. Answers are separated by slates. TRT 3:43 Canned interview with NASA Scientist Dr. Elizabeth Hoy talking about wildfires in Alaska and how NASA is studying those wildfires with its ABoVE mission. Answers are separate by a second of black. TRT 1:56 New NASA Campaign Tracks Wildfire Smoke for Improved Air Quality ForecastsRecord-Breaking Heat Conditions Set the Stage for Hotter and Longer Fires AheadThis summer, fires have raged through hundreds of thousands of acres across North America, polluting the air we breathe. The smoke from these wildfires can even cross the Atlantic Ocean and travel around the globe. This summer, NASA researchers are in the field taking on the most comprehensive campaign in the continental United States to investigate fast-traveling wildfire smoke to improve air quality forecasting. Click here for link to this feature in SpanishThis past June was the warmest June on record, and early data indicates that July of 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded. These hotter and drier conditions set the stage for more intense wildfires that can bring dangerous smoke to a city near you.Chat with NASA scientists on Thursday, August 8 from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EST to find out more about what NASA is doing to track smoke and its impact on your local community.From its unique vantage point in space, NASA serves as one of the first fire detectors. With NASA’s latest satellite technology, we can help firefighters and forest managers combat fires by tracking wildfire movement and impact in real-time.*** To schedule an interview, please fill out THIS FORM.***Location for interviews is NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. satellite coordinatesHD Satellite Coordinates for G17-K17/Lower: Galaxy 17 Ku-band Xp 17 Slot Lower| 91.0 ° W Longitude | DL 12031.0 MHz | Horizontal Polarity | QPSK/DVB-S | FEC 3/4 | SR 13.235 Mbps | DR 18.2954 MHz | HD 720p | Format MPEG2 | Chroma Level 4:2:0 | Audio Embedded *** Questions? Contact isabelle.c.yan@nasa.gov or 301-286-2470. For More InformationSee [https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/index.html](https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/index.html) Related pages
2017 Hurricanes and Aerosols Simulation
May 5th, 2021
Read moreTracking aerosols over land and water from August 1 to November 1, 2017. Hurricanes and tropical storms are obvious from the large amounts of sea salt particles caught up in their swirling winds. The dust blowing off the Sahara, however, gets caught by water droplets and is rained out of the storm system. Smoke from the massive fires in the Pacific Northwest region of North America are blown across the Atlantic to the UK and Europe. This visualization is a result of combining NASA satellite data with sophisticated mathematical models that describe the underlying physical processes.Music: Elapsing Time by Christian Telford [ASCAP], Robert Anthony Navarro [ASCAP]Complete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. [Versión en español]Rastreando de aerosoles sobre tierra y agua desde el 1 de agosto hasta el 1 de noviembre de 2017. Los huracanes y las tormentas tropicales son obvios por las grandes cantidades de partículas de sal marina atrapadas en sus vientos arremolinados. Sin embargo, el polvo del Sahara queda atrapado por las gotas de agua y sale por lluvia del sistema de tormentas. El humo de los incendios masivos en la región noroeste del Pacífico de América del Norte cruza el Atlántico hacia el Reino Unido y Europa. Esta visualización es el resultado de combinar datos satelitales de la NASA con sofisticados modelos matemáticos que describen los procesos físicos subyacentes.Música: Elapsing Time por Christian Telford [ASCAP], Robert Anthony Navarro [ASCAP]Transcripción completa disponible Version without hurricane labels, dates, nor legend for color scales. Colorbars indicating the amount of smoke, sea salt, and dust (expressed as aerosol optical depth at 550 nm), on transparent background. Video of dates on transparent background. Tracking the aerosols carried on the winds let scientists see the currents in our atmosphere. This visualization follows sea salt, dust, and smoke from July 31 to November 1, 2017, to reveal how these particles are transported across the map.The first thing that is noticeable is how far the particles can travel. Smoke from fires in the Pacific Northwest gets caught in a weather pattern and pulled all the way across the US and over to Europe. Hurricanes form off the coast of Africa and travel across the Atlantic to make landfall in the United States. Dust from the Sahara is blown into the Gulf of Mexico. To understand the impacts of aerosols, scientists need to study the process as a global system.The Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has developed the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS), a family of mathematical models. Combined with data from NASA's Earth observing satellites, the supercomputer simulations enhance our scientific understanding of specific chemical, physical, and biological processes.During the 2017 hurricane season, the storms are visible because of the sea salt that is captured by the storms. Strong winds at the surface lift the sea salt into the atmosphere and the particles are incorporated into the storm. Hurricane Irma is the first big storm that spawns off the coast of Africa. As the storm spins up, the Saharan dust is absorbed in cloud droplets and washed out of the storm as rain. This process happens with most of the storms, except for Hurricane Ophelia. Forming more northward than most storms, Ophelia traveled to the east picking up dust from the Sahara and smoke from large fires in Portugal. Retaining its tropical storm state farther northward than any system in the Atlantic, Ophelia carried the smoke and dust into Ireland and the UK.Computer simulations using the GEOS models allow scientists to see how different processes fit together and evolve as a system. By using mathematical models to represent nature we can separate the system into component parts and better understand the underlying physics of each.GEOS runs on the Discover supercomputer at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS)For more information: NASA@SC17: Glimpse at the Future of Global Weather Prediction and Analysis at NASA Related pages
FIREX-AQ Prelaunch Data Visualization
July 17th, 2019
Read moreThis data visualization starts with an overview of the United States west coast. As we zoom into several California wildfires, MODIS data dissolves in to show some of the low-lying smoke resulting from these fires. The camera then pans across the United States, slowly revealing CALIPSO swath passes as they dissect the atmosphere. Throughout most of the journey CALIPSO picks up many aerosol signatures as shown in the more opaque portions of the curtain. The FIREX-AQ mission will track fire emissions as they travel across the United States. Please visit the FIREX-AQ website for more information. Related pages