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MISR Aoba Volcano Plume

The Aoba volcano located on Ambae, one of the Vanuatu Island chain in the SW Pacific, began showing heightened activity on August 30, 2017. This image shows a Terra/MODIS image from Worldview taken March 16, 2018 of a Multi-Angle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) observed plume reaching ~5km. Accurate plume heights are needed to determine the influence of volcanic eruptions, but are difficult to obtain due to the hazardous nature of volcanic eruptions. Stereo images from NASA's MISR make it possible to retrieve plume height in ongoing eruptions using  parallax.
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March 2018 ASDC Newsletter Announcement

The ASDC March Newsletter introduces DSCOVR's relesase of the O3SO2AI product and a look at the EPIC Imaging Camera, Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resource (POWER's) new homepage (beta) and Geospatial Data Portal, instrument status updates for both Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) and Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES), and how to access the MISR Tool Kit (MTK).
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Atmospheric Science User Forum

The ASDC would like to bring your attention to the Atmospheric Science User Forum. The purpose of this forum is to improve user service, quality, and efficiency of NASA atmospheric science data. The forum intends to provide a quick and easy way to facilitate scientific discussion among scientists and data users. All are welcome to use this forum, simply create an Earthdata Login account. Directions for using the forum are provided on the homepage.

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Toolsets for Airborne Data

The Toolsets for Airborne Data (TAD), developed at the Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) to promote the airborne data use, has added additional data sets! Now available is the entire NASA Deriving Information on Surface Conditions from COlumn and VERtically Resolved Observations Relevant to Air Quality (DISCOVER-AQ) Campaign including Maryland, Texas, California, and Colorado. To order and download the aircraft data sets you can access TAD at: https://tad.larc.nasa.gov.

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Mt Agung (Bali) Eruption Plumes

Mt Agung (Bali) eruption plumes seen by MISR November 29, 2017   Volcanic eruptions can generate a significant amount of atmospheric aerosols that have regional to global impacts. Accurate plume heights are needed to determine the influence of volcanic eruptions, but are difficult to obtain due to the hazardous nature of eruptions. Stereo images from NASA’s Multi-Angle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) make it possible to retrieve plume heights during eruptions.

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AirMSPI Level 1B2 V006 New Data for NASA/SRON ACEPOL Campaign

ACEPOL
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

The NASA Langley Atmospheric Sciences Data Center (ASDC) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announce the public release of Version 006 of the Airborne Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager (AirMSPI) Level 1B2 data products for the Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar (ACEPOL) flig

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TES Instrument Decommissioning

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

On Jan. 31, NASA ended the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer's almost-14-year career of discovery.

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Replacement of SSE with NASA's POWER Project GIS-enabled Web Data Portal

Friday, March 16, 2018

Replacement of SSE (Release 6) with NASA's Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resource (POWER) Project GIS-enabled Web Data Portal:

 

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March 2018 ASDC Newsletter

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

The ASDC March Newsletter introduces DSCOVR's relesase of the O3SO2AI product and a look at the EPIC Imaging Camera, Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resource (POWER's) new homepage (beta) and Geospatial Data Portal, instrument status updates for both Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) and Tropo

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