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Smog over China: Natural Hazards
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Smog over China: Natural Hazards
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A thick plume of smog hung over the region of Beijing on September 1, 2005. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ (MODIS) flying onboard the terra.nasa.gov/ Terra satellite captured this image the same day. Clouds cover the region in the north, but in the south, smog appears as a heavy band of gray.
According to The Seattle Times, China builds a new power plant every week. This building boom has led to a market for equipment that scrubs sulfur from power plant emissions. Unfortunately, not every pollutant has been reduced. Nature has reported that nitrogen dioxide in China's atmosphere has risen by 50 percent in the last decade, and the pollutant continues to accumulate at an increasing rate. Added to the country's appetite for electricity is its appetite for cars; the number of cars in China doubled between 1995 and 2002.
* Cyranoski, D. (2005) Satellite View Alerts China to Soaring Pollution. Nature (437) 12. * seattletimes.nwsourc e.com/html/businesst echnology/2002470128 _chinabizcover04.htm l Selling to China: Local Companies Seek to Feed Giant Appetite .
NASA image courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov/subsets/?AER ONET_Beijing daily images of the Beijing region.
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A thick plume of smog hung over the region of Beijing on September 1, 2005. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ (MODIS) flying onboard the terra.nasa.gov/ Terra satellite captured this image the same day. Clouds cover the region in the north, but in the south, smog appears as a heavy band of gray.
According to The Seattle Times, China builds a new power plant every week. This building boom has led to a market for equipment that scrubs sulfur from power plant emissions. Unfortunately, not every pollutant has been reduced. Nature has reported that nitrogen dioxide in China's atmosphere has risen by 50 percent in the last decade, and the pollutant continues to accumulate at an increasing rate. Added to the country's appetite for electricity is its appetite for cars; the number of cars in China doubled between 1995 and 2002.
* Cyranoski, D. (2005) Satellite View Alerts China to Soaring Pollution. Nature (437) 12. * seattletimes.nwsourc e.com/html/businesst echnology/2002470128 _chinabizcover04.htm l Selling to China: Local Companies Seek to Feed Giant Appetite .
NASA image courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov/subsets/?AER ONET_Beijing daily images of the Beijing region.
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Where -- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Where -- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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What -- Terra
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What -- Terra
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Where -- China
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Where -- China
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Where -- Beijing
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Where -- Beijing
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Terra
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Beijing
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China
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chinasmog_tmo_200524 4
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chinasmog_tmo_200524 4
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gwilliam@archive.org
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gwilliam@archive.org
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2011-07-27 00:35:41
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2011-07-27 00:35:41
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2011-07-27 00:35:41
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2011-07-27 00:35:41
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 107/1/chinasmog_tmo_ 2005244/chinasmog_tm o_2005244_lrg.jpg
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chinasmog_tmo_200524 4_lrg.jpg
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chinasmog_tmo_200524 4_lrg.jpg
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2005-09-01
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Public Domain
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Public Domain
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2005
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eng
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