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Floods in Southern China
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Floods in Southern China |
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Three days of heavy rain caused widespread flooding across China's Jiangxi Province in early June 2007. The floods destroyed about 2,000 houses, and caused an economic loss of approximately $13 million, reported Reuters. [ http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSPEK67549._CH_.2400 ] The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured the top image of flooding around Poyang Lake, a reservoir in northern Jiangxi, on June 6, 2007. Compared to conditions a few weeks earlier, on May 19 (lower image), the reservoir is swollen, and its shores have been pushed out by several kilometres. Both images were made with a combination of infrared and visible light, which makes water appear black or dark blue. Plant-covered land is bright green, bare earth is tan, and clouds are light blue and white. Similar images as well as photo-like images of southeast China [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_China6/2007157 ] are available from the MODIS Rapid Response System on a daily basis. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. |
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Floods in Southern China
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Floods in Southern China |
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Three days of heavy rain caused widespread flooding across China's Jiangxi Province in early June 2007. The floods destroyed about 2,000 houses, and caused an economic loss of approximately $13 million, reported Reuters. [ http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSPEK67549._CH_.2400 ] The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured the top image of flooding around Poyang Lake, a reservoir in northern Jiangxi, on June 6, 2007. Compared to conditions a few weeks earlier, on May 19 (lower image), the reservoir is swollen, and its shores have been pushed out by several kilometres. Both images were made with a combination of infrared and visible light, which makes water appear black or dark blue. Plant-covered land is bright green, bare earth is tan, and clouds are light blue and white. Similar images as well as photo-like images of southeast China [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_China6/2007157 ] are available from the MODIS Rapid Response System on a daily basis. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. |
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Gobi Desert Dust Storm
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Gobi Desert Dust Storm |
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A dust storm blew across the Gobi Desert on March 30, 2007. The same day, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured this image of the storm. This picture shows the storm's source points in Mongolia: the start of a very pale plume in the north, and the beginnings of thicker, slightly darker plumes in the south. All the plumes flare out as they sweep across the Gobi in a counter-clockwise direction toward China. Just south of the dust plumes, opaque white clouds follow a similar path. According to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research's Meteorology Education and Training program, the Gobi Desert ranks among the world's leading sources of dust storms, along with the Sahara, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia. NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center. |
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Haze over China
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Haze over China |
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Haze mingled with clouds in the skies over eastern China on March 20, 2007. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] flying onboard NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite took this picture the same day. In this image, opaque white clouds and dingy gray haze obscure the view of the land surface while thick brown sediment clouds the shoreline of the Yellow Sea. At least some of the haze results from pollution as China rapidly industrializes. Ubiquitous settlements in China appear in this image as tiny beige dots in a sea of green vegetation, especially near the Yellow Sea. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. The Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_China4 ] of this region. |
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Haze over China
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Haze over China |
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Thick haze collected over the Beijing region in late March 2007. Earlier that month, the BBC News reported that an international team of scientists had documented how increasing pollution in China led to decreasing rainfall over the region. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] flying onboard the Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite captured these images of the Beijing region on March 22, 2007. The top image is a "true-color" picture, similar to a digital photo. The bottom, "false-color," image uses a combination of visible and infrared light to more clearly show vegetation, water, and clouds. Even sparse vegetation appears bright green, while water appears deep blue (bright blue when tinged with sediment). Clouds dominated by water droplets appear white, while clouds made of ice crystals appear light blue. The false-color image highlights water bodies, perhaps aqua-culture ponds, that are all but invisible in the true-color image, especially along the shores of the Bo Hai. While vegetation and water show up more clearly in the false-color image, haze is much more transparent. Although dingy gray haze dominates the true-color picture, it is all but invisible in the false-color view. The haze "disappears" in the infrared-enhanced image because tiny haze particles do not reflect longer-wavelength infrared light very well, making this type of image useful for distinguishing haze from clouds. The bank of clouds in the upper right corner shows up clearly in both pictures. As China industrializes, factories, power plants, and automobiles all contribute to pollution in the region. In examining pollutants and rainfall, the team of scientists examined records covering more than 50 years, concluding that pollution decreased precipitation at Mount Hua near Xi'an in central China. They concluded that when conditions are so hazy that visibility is reduced to less than 8 kilometers (5 miles), hilly precipitation can drop by 30 to 50 percent. When moist air passes over mountains, it usually cools and forms raindrops, but heavy pollutant concentrations cause the clouds to hang on to their moisture. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. The Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_China4 ] of this region. |
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Haze over China
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Haze over China |
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Thick haze collected over the Beijing region in late March 2007. Earlier that month, the BBC News reported that an international team of scientists had documented how increasing pollution in China led to decreasing rainfall over the region. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] flying onboard the Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite captured these images of the Beijing region on March 22, 2007. The top image is a "true-color" picture, similar to a digital photo. The bottom, "false-color," image uses a combination of visible and infrared light to more clearly show vegetation, water, and clouds. Even sparse vegetation appears bright green, while water appears deep blue (bright blue when tinged with sediment). Clouds dominated by water droplets appear white, while clouds made of ice crystals appear light blue. The false-color image highlights water bodies, perhaps aqua-culture ponds, that are all but invisible in the true-color image, especially along the shores of the Bo Hai. While vegetation and water show up more clearly in the false-color image, haze is much more transparent. Although dingy gray haze dominates the true-color picture, it is all but invisible in the false-color view. The haze "disappears" in the infrared-enhanced image because tiny haze particles do not reflect longer-wavelength infrared light very well, making this type of image useful for distinguishing haze from clouds. The bank of clouds in the upper right corner shows up clearly in both pictures. As China industrializes, factories, power plants, and automobiles all contribute to pollution in the region. In examining pollutants and rainfall, the team of scientists examined records covering more than 50 years, concluding that pollution decreased precipitation at Mount Hua near Xi'an in central China. They concluded that when conditions are so hazy that visibility is reduced to less than 8 kilometers (5 miles), hilly precipitation can drop by 30 to 50 percent. When moist air passes over mountains, it usually cools and forms raindrops, but heavy pollutant concentrations cause the clouds to hang on to their moisture. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. The Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_China4 ] of this region. |
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Haze over China
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Haze over China |
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Thick haze collected over the Beijing region in late March 2007. Earlier that month, the BBC News reported that an international team of scientists had documented how increasing pollution in China led to decreasing rainfall over the region. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] flying onboard the Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite captured these images of the Beijing region on March 22, 2007. The top image is a "true-color" picture, similar to a digital photo. The bottom, "false-color," image uses a combination of visible and infrared light to more clearly show vegetation, water, and clouds. Even sparse vegetation appears bright green, while water appears deep blue (bright blue when tinged with sediment). Clouds dominated by water droplets appear white, while clouds made of ice crystals appear light blue. The false-color image highlights water bodies, perhaps aqua-culture ponds, that are all but invisible in the true-color image, especially along the shores of the Bo Hai. While vegetation and water show up more clearly in the false-color image, haze is much more transparent. Although dingy gray haze dominates the true-color picture, it is all but invisible in the false-color view. The haze "disappears" in the infrared-enhanced image because tiny haze particles do not reflect longer-wavelength infrared light very well, making this type of image useful for distinguishing haze from clouds. The bank of clouds in the upper right corner shows up clearly in both pictures. As China industrializes, factories, power plants, and automobiles all contribute to pollution in the region. In examining pollutants and rainfall, the team of scientists examined records covering more than 50 years, concluding that pollution decreased precipitation at Mount Hua near Xi'an in central China. They concluded that when conditions are so hazy that visibility is reduced to less than 8 kilometers (5 miles), hilly precipitation can drop by 30 to 50 percent. When moist air passes over mountains, it usually cools and forms raindrops, but heavy pollutant concentrations cause the clouds to hang on to their moisture. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. The Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_China4 ] of this region. |
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Haze over China
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Haze over China |
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Just days after thick haze [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17591 ] collected over the Beijing region, more haze clouded the skies over Bo Hai, east of the capital city. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] flying onboard the Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov ] satellite captured these images of Bo Hai on March 26, 2007. The top image is a "true-color" picture, similar to a digital photo. The bottom image is a "false-color" picture that uses a combination of visible and infrared light to give a clearer picture of vegetation, water, and clouds. Besides clearly showing vegetation, water, and clouds, the false-color image, when paired with a true-color image, helps the viewer discern haze. In the top image, thick haze dominates the image, but the same haze barely appears in the bottom image. The pollutants comprising most of the haze have little water content, rendering them largely invisible in the false-color picture. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. The Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_China4 ] of this region. |
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Haze over China
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Haze over China |
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Just days after thick haze [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17591 ] collected over the Beijing region, more haze clouded the skies over Bo Hai, east of the capital city. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] flying onboard the Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov ] satellite captured these images of Bo Hai on March 26, 2007. The top image is a "true-color" picture, similar to a digital photo. The bottom image is a "false-color" picture that uses a combination of visible and infrared light to give a clearer picture of vegetation, water, and clouds. Besides clearly showing vegetation, water, and clouds, the false-color image, when paired with a true-color image, helps the viewer discern haze. In the top image, thick haze dominates the image, but the same haze barely appears in the bottom image. The pollutants comprising most of the haze have little water content, rendering them largely invisible in the false-color picture. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. The Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_China4 ] of this region. |
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Haze over China
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Haze over China |
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Just days after thick haze [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17591 ] collected over the Beijing region, more haze clouded the skies over Bo Hai, east of the capital city. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] flying onboard the Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov ] satellite captured these images of Bo Hai on March 26, 2007. The top image is a "true-color" picture, similar to a digital photo. The bottom image is a "false-color" picture that uses a combination of visible and infrared light to give a clearer picture of vegetation, water, and clouds. Besides clearly showing vegetation, water, and clouds, the false-color image, when paired with a true-color image, helps the viewer discern haze. In the top image, thick haze dominates the image, but the same haze barely appears in the bottom image. The pollutants comprising most of the haze have little water content, rendering them largely invisible in the false-color picture. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. The Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_China4 ] of this region. |
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Haze over Eastern China
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Haze over Eastern China |
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One day after a thick plume of haze crept toward Beijing, much of eastern China was obscured on October 23, 2007. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite took this picture the same day, showing haze dense enough to completely block the view of the land surface below. As on the previous day, the haze largely avoided the Taihang Shan Mountains southwest of the capital city, although fingers of haze crept westward toward the peaks. Thick haze spread from Beijing southward, well past the coast of the Yellow Sea. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. The Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_China4 ] of this region. |
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Haze over Korea
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Haze over Korea |
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On February 6, 2007, thick haze blew across the Yellow Sea and the Korean Peninsula toward Japan. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite took this picture the same day. In this image, the band of haze appears to narrow somewhat as it crosses over South Korea, then spreads out over the Sea of Japan. Skies over North Korea and the northern portion of the Sea of Japan are relatively clear. Opaque white clouds mix with the haze, especially over the Yellow Sea and Japan. Through the haze, thick brown sediment can be seen along China's coast. The haze appears particularly thick in southeastern China and western Japan. In part, the smoggier appearance results from the location of those areas along the edge of the swath that the satellite observed. At the swath edges, the MODIS sensor is looking through the atmosphere at an angle, creating a longer line of sight that enhances the appearance of haze. China's air pollution problems are function of its rapidly developing economy. With an energy infrastructure dominated by coal-burning power plants and a dramatic increase in private vehicle ownership over the past decade, the country has experienced a deterioration in air quality, a problem which spills over national boundaries. On February 8, 2007, the Worldwatch Institute issued a news release that China's parliament backed a plan to shut down many of the nation's smaller coal-fired power plants. According to World Watch magazine, small plants release 20 times as much smog-forming pollutants as larger plants. NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center. |
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Dust and Clouds over Eastern
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Dust and Clouds over Eastern China |
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Dust mixed with clouds over eastern China and the Korean Peninsula on March 31, 2007. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite took this picture the same day. In this image, tan dust and white clouds obscure the view of much of the land and water below. Clouds are especially thick in the east. Over Bo Hai, however, the dust is thin enough to allow a view of thick brown sediment near the coastline. The dust in this region likely resulted from a Gobi Desert dust storm [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14194 ] on March 30. A combination of dust and smoke from agricultural fires clouded the skies [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14199 ] over most of eastern Asia at the same time. NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center. |
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Dust in Northern China
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Dust in Northern China |
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A late-spring dust storm skirted the China-Mongolia border on May 26, 2007. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite took this picture the same day. In this image, the dust storm appears as a beige blur over a buff-colored landscape, and the plume remains close to but south of the border. You can download a 250-meter-resolution dust storm KMZ file [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/May2007/mongolia_amo_2007146.kmz ] for use with Google Earth. [ http://earth.google.com/ ] NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] team. |
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Dust Storm in Taklimakan Des
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Dust Storm in Taklimakan Desert |
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On February 28, 2007, a dust storm bearing hurricane-force winds struck China's far west. According to CNN, the storm derailed a train, causing four casualties. The train had just left a station in Turpan when high winds first cracked windows then blew cars off the tracks. This image shows a combination of dust and clouds over western China, captured on February 28, 2007, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite. The pale tan hue characteristic of dust storms appears over the Taklimakan Desert, just south of the Tian Shan (also Tien Shan) Mountains, and also a few hundred kilometers to the east. Although cloud cover partially blocks the view, this appears to be a continuous plume of dust blowing eastward. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] team. |
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Dust Storm in the Russian Fa
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Dust Storm in the Russian Far East |
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A dust plume hovered over the border between Russia's Far East and China on April 30, 2007. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite took this picture the same day. In this image, the dust plume appears as a tan blob over the border between Russia and China. The dust plume likely originated in the arid west, perhaps in Mongolia. The dust particles enjoy plenty of company as they cloud the skies over eastern Asia. Surrounding the dust are not only white clouds but also dingy gray haze, likely resulting from fires [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14238 ] in the region. Just east of the dust plume are three distinct fingers of smoke that blow toward the northwest in a counterclockwise direction. The high-resolution image shows a burn scar (dark brown areas) at the southeastern base of these smoke plumes. South of the dust plume, the haze may result from pollution. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data provided courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] team. |
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Dust Storm over the Taklimak
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Dust Storm over the Taklimakan Desert |
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On May 10, 2007, a dust storm covered most of the Taklimakan Desert in western China. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured an image of the storm at 05:50 UTC. The storm had intensified by the time the MODIS sensor on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite took another picture at 07:30 UTC. In both of these images, the dust appears as a beige blur over the landscape, thickest in the west. In the later image, the dust is even more concentrated at the western edge of the desert—lighter in color and larger. Lying in the Tarim Basin, between the Tien Shan Mountains to the north and Kunlun Mountains to the south, the Taklimakan Desert is home to one of Earth's largest shifting-sand deserts. The basin's lowest point is roughly 150 meters (490 feet) below sea level, and salt collects in the basin due to lack of drainage. Because of its aridity and abundant sand, this desert produces many of Asia's dust storms. NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center. |
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Fires in Myanmar
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Fires in Myanmar |
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In Southeast Asia, fires are common and widespread throughout the dry season, which roughly spans the northern hemisphere winter months. People set fires to clear crop stubble and brush and to prepare grazing land for a new flush of growth when the rainy season arrives. These intentional fires are too frequently accompanied by accidental fires that invade nearby forests and woodlands. The combination of fires produces a thick haze that alternately lingers and disperses, depending on the weather. This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite shows fire activity on March 19, 2007, across eastern India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and China. Places where MODIS detected actively burning fires are marked in red on the image. The darker green areas are generally more wooded areas or forests, while the paler green and tan areas are agricultural land. Smoke pools over low-lying areas of the hilly terrain in gray pockets. The green tops of rolling hills in Thailand emerge from a cloud of low-lying smoke. According to news reports from Thailand, the smoke blanket created air quality conditions that were considered unhealthy for all groups, and it prompted the Thai Air Force to undertake cloud-seeding attempts in an effort to cleanse the skies with rain. Commercial air traffic was halted due to poor visibility. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data provided courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] team. |
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Fires in North Korea, Russia
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Fires in North Korea, Russia |
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Fires were scattered along the coast of Asia in late April 2007, likely the result of agricultural burning to prepare for the upcoming growing season. This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite on April 29, 2007, shows locations where the sensor detected actively burning fires marked in red. Fires extend from North Korea up into southeastern Russia. A few fires were also detected in China. Grayish smoke lingers over the coast of North Korea. You can download a 250-meter-resolution KMZ file of East Asia [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Apr2007/korea_amo_2007119.kmz ] for use with Google Earth. [ http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html ] NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided by the MODIS Rapid Response [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] team. |
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Fires in Southeast Asia
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Fires in Southeast Asia |
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In Southeast Asia, both accidental and intentional fires are common in the annual dry season, which occurs during Northern Hemisphere winter months. People set fires to clear cropland before the spring rains arrive, and also to stimulate new pasture. People also use fire to clear the region's tropical forests for new agricultural land. This image from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite shows scores of fires burning across parts of Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and southern China on February 21, 2007. Places where MODIS detected active fires are marked in red. A few fires appear to be large and smoky, which might indicate that forest or moisture-rich vegetation is burning. Though it is not necessarily immediately hazardous, such large-scale burning can have a strong impact on weather, climate, human health, and natural resources. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] team. |
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Fires in Southeast Asia
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Fires in Southeast Asia |
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Vehicles and power plants are not the only sources of air pollution and greenhouses gases: fires contribute, too. In the Northern Hemisphere spring, which is the end of dry season across much of Southeast Asia, thousands of fires burn each year as people clear cropland and pasture in anticipation of the upcoming wet (growing) season. Intentional fires also escape people's control and burn into adjacent forest. The smoke from these fires crosses the Pacific Ocean, affecting climate far away. This dramatic photo-like image of fires and smoke in Southeast Asia was captured on April 2, 2007, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite. MODIS detected hundreds, possibly thousands of fires (marked in red), burning in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and China. Thick smoke hides nearly all of Laos, where the highest concentration of fires is located. In southern China and northern Vietnam, the smoke has sunk into the valleys that crisscross the mountainous terrain, only the highest ridgelines, which appear dark green, emerge from the blanket of smoke. The smoke sails above a bank of clouds at upper right as a dingy, yellowish haze. Fires have been burning in the region for more than month, as shown by the high carbon monoxide levels observed by NASA's MOPITT sensor during March 2007. [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14191 ] In addition to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, fires produce tiny particles of incompletely burned, or charred, carbon. According to research published in mid-March 2007 in the Journal of Geophysical Research, significant amounts of this black carbon travel across the Pacific Ocean to North America at altitudes above 2 kilometers. In spring 2004, between 25-35 gigatons (roughly 55 to 77 million pounds) of black carbon crossed the Pacific and entered skies over western North America between March 26 and April 25, nearly 75 percent of it came from Asia. (Smoke and other pollution have no respect for borders, for example, scientists have also documented smoke pollution from fires in Alaska and Canada crossing the Atlantic [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/ContributionPollution/ ], and entering skies over Europe.) Black carbon influences the climate. Like any dark-colored material, it absorbs incoming sunlight, dimming and cooling the Earth's surface. But while the surface cools, the atmosphere where the black carbon is located heats up. Which effect is stronger? When scientists looked at the overall effect for an entire column of the atmosphere, black carbon's warming effects outweighed its cooling effects. They concluded that trans-Pacific transport of black carbon, such as the soot released from the fires shown in this image, may amplify greenhouse-gas warming over the western United States and the Pacific Ocean. The analysis was based on a variety of information, including weather models, observations collected from airplanes, and aerosol data from MODIS. The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_China5 ] images of the region in additional resolutions and formats. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Super Typhoon Wipha
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Super Typhoon Wipha |
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Super Typhoon Wipha was approaching the coast of China on the afternoon of September 18, 2007, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured this photo-like image. At the time (12:40 p.m. local time, 4:40 UTC), Wipha had winds between 250 kilometers per hour (155 miles per hour or 135 knots) and 240 km/hr (150 mph or 130 knots), making it a strong Category 4 [ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshs.shtml ] storm and a Super Typhoon (a typhoon with winds of at least 130 knots). The storm weakened shortly after this image was taken and was forecast to weaken further before making landfall over the densely populated East China coast late on September 18 or early on September 19. Though the storm was weakening, it was anticipated to be the strongest storm to hit China in a decade, reported Xinhua, China's news agency. In preparation for the storm, the government evacuated about two million people in three provinces, said Xinhua. The storm had already started to soak Taiwan with heavy rains by the time this image was taken. The spiraling bands of rain clouds cover the island in this image, though the dark, well-defined eye remains offshore to the north. The image also reveals just how large Wipha was. Including its outer bands, which stretch from the Philippines (visible in the large image) in the south to the East China coast in the north, Wipha sprawls over several hundred kilometers. The high-resolution image provided above is at MODIS' full spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions. You can also download a 250-meter-resolution KMZ file of Super Typhoon Wipia [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Sep2007/Wipha.A2007261.0440.250m.kmz ] suitable for use with Google Earth. [ http://earth.google.com/ ] NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center. |
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Floods in Central China
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Floods in Central China |
| Description |
Torrential summer rains pounded the Huai River Valley of Central China starting on June 28, 2007, and by July 10, the Huai River was flowing over its banks. River levels were still rising when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) aboard NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured this image on the morning of July 10. Though clouds (pale blue and white in this false-color image) and haze still hang over the river valley, the swollen waterways of the Huai and its many tributaries are still visible. With no direct outlet to the ocean, the east-flowing river is prone to flooding. The lower image, taken by Aqua MODIS on June 6, 2007, shows the river valley before the rain started. At that time, scores of fires (marked with red) burned in agricultural fields primarily north of the river. The land is charred red-brown where fires have recently burned, and bare or sparsely vegetated land is a lighter shade of pink-tan. Plant-covered land south of the river is bright green. The tan and green speckled appearance of the land surrounding the river is typical of heavily farmed areas. The Huai River Valley is a densely populated agricultural region spread across three provinces. Flooding in these provinces (Jiangsu, Anhui, and Henan) along with flooding in the Sichuan, Hubei, Chongqing, and Shaanxi Provinces damaged 2.13 million hectares of farmland and affected about 28 million people, with nearly 800,000 forced from their homes, 26 missing, and 101 dead as of July 10, reported the Xinhua News Agency. [ http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/216484.htm ] The floods, rains, and mudslides caused the collapse of more than 75,500 houses and damaged 295,600 more homes throughout China, said Xinhua. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. |
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Floods in Central China
| Title |
Floods in Central China |
| Description |
Torrential summer rains pounded the Huai River Valley of Central China starting on June 28, 2007, and by July 10, the Huai River was flowing over its banks. River levels were still rising when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) aboard NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured this image on the morning of July 10. Though clouds (pale blue and white in this false-color image) and haze still hang over the river valley, the swollen waterways of the Huai and its many tributaries are still visible. With no direct outlet to the ocean, the east-flowing river is prone to flooding. The lower image, taken by Aqua MODIS on June 6, 2007, shows the river valley before the rain started. At that time, scores of fires (marked with red) burned in agricultural fields primarily north of the river. The land is charred red-brown where fires have recently burned, and bare or sparsely vegetated land is a lighter shade of pink-tan. Plant-covered land south of the river is bright green. The tan and green speckled appearance of the land surrounding the river is typical of heavily farmed areas. The Huai River Valley is a densely populated agricultural region spread across three provinces. Flooding in these provinces (Jiangsu, Anhui, and Henan) along with flooding in the Sichuan, Hubei, Chongqing, and Shaanxi Provinces damaged 2.13 million hectares of farmland and affected about 28 million people, with nearly 800,000 forced from their homes, 26 missing, and 101 dead as of July 10, reported the Xinhua News Agency. [ http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/216484.htm ] The floods, rains, and mudslides caused the collapse of more than 75,500 houses and damaged 295,600 more homes throughout China, said Xinhua. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. |
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Floods in Central China
| Title |
Floods in Central China |
| Description |
Unusually heavy summer rains led to widespread flooding across central China in June and July 2007. On July 18, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured the top image of the flood-swollen Poyang Hu (Hu is Chinese for "lake") in China's southern Jiangxi Province. The lake is the largest fresh-water lake in China, but its size fluctuates seasonally. During the summer rainy season, Poyang Lake can be more than 1,000 square kilometers larger than its dry-season extent. By July 18, the lake was certainly much larger than it had been on May 10, when Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] MODIS acquired the lower image. In these images, made with a combination of infrared and visible light, water is dark blue or black. Sediment lightens the color of the water. The land around the lake is covered in bright green vegetation spotted with silvery-gray cities. Bare or sparsely vegetated land is tan, and clouds are white and pale blue. The annual flooding on Poyang Lake begins with the southern rainy season during the late spring, and culminates during the summer rains along the Yangtze. For most of the year, the lake drains into the Yangtze River through a channel on its northern shore, but during the mid- to late-summer, the Yangtze runs high, and water flows from the Yangtze into Poyang Lake. The top image reveals that this reversal in flow has probably already started. A plume of dusty blue sediment—a sign of flooding—flows into Poyang Lake from the wide channel that leads to the Yangtze River in the north. As of July 16, more than 105 million people had been affected by flooding throughout China since mid-June, with 3.6 million evacuated from their homes, said the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC [ http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/MKOC-757HV6?OpenDocument ]). In mid-July, the most severe flooding occurred on the Huai River, [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14384 ] north of Poyang Lake. Daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_China6/2007199 ] of Poyang Lake are available from the MODIS Rapid Response System. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. |
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Floods in Central China
| Title |
Floods in Central China |
| Description |
Unusually heavy summer rains led to widespread flooding across central China in June and July 2007. On July 18, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured the top image of the flood-swollen Poyang Hu (Hu is Chinese for "lake") in China's southern Jiangxi Province. The lake is the largest fresh-water lake in China, but its size fluctuates seasonally. During the summer rainy season, Poyang Lake can be more than 1,000 square kilometers larger than its dry-season extent. By July 18, the lake was certainly much larger than it had been on May 10, when Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] MODIS acquired the lower image. In these images, made with a combination of infrared and visible light, water is dark blue or black. Sediment lightens the color of the water. The land around the lake is covered in bright green vegetation spotted with silvery-gray cities. Bare or sparsely vegetated land is tan, and clouds are white and pale blue. The annual flooding on Poyang Lake begins with the southern rainy season during the late spring, and culminates during the summer rains along the Yangtze. For most of the year, the lake drains into the Yangtze River through a channel on its northern shore, but during the mid- to late-summer, the Yangtze runs high, and water flows from the Yangtze into Poyang Lake. The top image reveals that this reversal in flow has probably already started. A plume of dusty blue sediment—a sign of flooding—flows into Poyang Lake from the wide channel that leads to the Yangtze River in the north. As of July 16, more than 105 million people had been affected by flooding throughout China since mid-June, with 3.6 million evacuated from their homes, said the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC [ http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/MKOC-757HV6?OpenDocument ]). In mid-July, the most severe flooding occurred on the Huai River, [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14384 ] north of Poyang Lake. Daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_China6/2007199 ] of Poyang Lake are available from the MODIS Rapid Response System. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. |
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Floods in Central China
| Title |
Floods in Central China |
| Description |
Apart from being China's second-largest fresh-water lake, Dongting Hu is a natural flood basin for the Yangtze River in central China. Every year, between June and September, the shallow lake fills with water when the Yangtze River rises as a result of melting snow at its headwaters and summer rains along its length. This series of images, captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] and Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellites, shows the lake filling between May and July 2007. In late May, top, Dongting Lake was nearly dry. A drought the previous year left water levels low. After a rainy June, the lake had grown in three distinct lobes (east, west, and south) as shown in the center image. By July 26, the east and west lobes of Dongting Lake had grown together, and the southern portion of the lake had also filled out. The Yuan and Li Rivers, which feed the lake in the south, were also swollen. Loaded with light-scattering sediment, the water in the rivers is dusty blue, while the clearer or deeper water in the lake is black. The images were made with infrared and visible light to increase the contrast between water and land. Plant-covered land in this richly vegetated region is bright green. Clouds are pale blue and white. The lower image, from July 26, is blurred by a thin veil of haze. Cities, which are most visible along Dongting Lake's eastern shore, are gray-brown. The largest city shown in the images is Yueyang in the top right corner. The floods shown in this image pushed an estimated two billion rats out of their habitat near the lake's shores. The rats swarmed over farmland and destroyed up to 1.6 million hectares (4 million acres) of crops, said China Daily. Dongting Lake is just one region that experienced severe flooding in the summer of 2007. Unusually heavy summer rains caused widespread flooding throughout central China, particularly in the Huai River basin. [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14384 ] NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC, which provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_China6/2007207 ] of China. |
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Floods in Central China
| Title |
Floods in Central China |
| Description |
Apart from being China's second-largest fresh-water lake, Dongting Hu is a natural flood basin for the Yangtze River in central China. Every year, between June and September, the shallow lake fills with water when the Yangtze River rises as a result of melting snow at its headwaters and summer rains along its length. This series of images, captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] and Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellites, shows the lake filling between May and July 2007. In late May, top, Dongting Lake was nearly dry. A drought the previous year left water levels low. After a rainy June, the lake had grown in three distinct lobes (east, west, and south) as shown in the center image. By July 26, the east and west lobes of Dongting Lake had grown together, and the southern portion of the lake had also filled out. The Yuan and Li Rivers, which feed the lake in the south, were also swollen. Loaded with light-scattering sediment, the water in the rivers is dusty blue, while the clearer or deeper water in the lake is black. The images were made with infrared and visible light to increase the contrast between water and land. Plant-covered land in this richly vegetated region is bright green. Clouds are pale blue and white. The lower image, from July 26, is blurred by a thin veil of haze. Cities, which are most visible along Dongting Lake's eastern shore, are gray-brown. The largest city shown in the images is Yueyang in the top right corner. The floods shown in this image pushed an estimated two billion rats out of their habitat near the lake's shores. The rats swarmed over farmland and destroyed up to 1.6 million hectares (4 million acres) of crops, said China Daily. Dongting Lake is just one region that experienced severe flooding in the summer of 2007. Unusually heavy summer rains caused widespread flooding throughout central China, particularly in the Huai River basin. [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14384 ] NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC, which provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_China6/2007207 ] of China. |
|
Floods in Central China
| Title |
Floods in Central China |
| Description |
Apart from being China's second-largest fresh-water lake, Dongting Hu is a natural flood basin for the Yangtze River in central China. Every year, between June and September, the shallow lake fills with water when the Yangtze River rises as a result of melting snow at its headwaters and summer rains along its length. This series of images, captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] and Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellites, shows the lake filling between May and July 2007. In late May, top, Dongting Lake was nearly dry. A drought the previous year left water levels low. After a rainy June, the lake had grown in three distinct lobes (east, west, and south) as shown in the center image. By July 26, the east and west lobes of Dongting Lake had grown together, and the southern portion of the lake had also filled out. The Yuan and Li Rivers, which feed the lake in the south, were also swollen. Loaded with light-scattering sediment, the water in the rivers is dusty blue, while the clearer or deeper water in the lake is black. The images were made with infrared and visible light to increase the contrast between water and land. Plant-covered land in this richly vegetated region is bright green. Clouds are pale blue and white. The lower image, from July 26, is blurred by a thin veil of haze. Cities, which are most visible along Dongting Lake's eastern shore, are gray-brown. The largest city shown in the images is Yueyang in the top right corner. The floods shown in this image pushed an estimated two billion rats out of their habitat near the lake's shores. The rats swarmed over farmland and destroyed up to 1.6 million hectares (4 million acres) of crops, said China Daily. Dongting Lake is just one region that experienced severe flooding in the summer of 2007. Unusually heavy summer rains caused widespread flooding throughout central China, particularly in the Huai River basin. [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14384 ] NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC, which provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_China6/2007207 ] of China. |
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Typhoon Usagi
| Title |
Typhoon Usagi |
| Description |
The fourth typhoon of 2007 in the western Pacific, Typhoon Usagi was just southwest of Japan's Volcano Islands, which include Iwo Jima, on July 31, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) flying on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured this image. The storm had become a Category 2 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Scale [ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshs.shtml ] with winds of 167 kilometers per hour (90 knots or 104 miles per hour) and gusts to 200 km/hr (110 knots or 127 mph), according to Unisys Weather. [ http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/w_pacific/2007/index.html ] Forecasts from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center [ https://metocph.nmci.navy.mil/jtwc.php ] predicted that Usagi would strengthen into a Category 4 storm and weaken slightly before striking southern Japan on August 2. The outermost bands of Typhoon Usagi sit over the Volcano Islands in the north and touch the Northern Mariana Islands in the south in this image. Guam is under the outermost fringe in the storm in the lower right corner of the image. Usagi was arcing northeast over the North Pacific, channeling haze ahead of it. The haze casts a dingy white veil on the upper left corner of the image. It probably originated from large wildfires in southeastern Siberia or from urban and industrial pollution in China. The large image provided above is at MODIS' maximum resolution of 250 meters per pixel. The image is available in additional resolutions [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2007212-0731/Usagi.A2007212.0355 ] from the MODIS Rapid Response System. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC |
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Haze in Eastern China: Natur
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
* eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ima
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beijing_amo_2007365
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2007-12-31 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
beijing_amo_2007365 |
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Haze over China: Natural Haz
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Haze mingled with clouds in
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china_amo_2007079
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2007-03-20 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
china_amo_2007079 |
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Floods in Southern China: Na
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
* eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ima
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Poyang_AMO_2007157
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2007-06-06 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
Poyang_AMO_2007157 |
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Gobi Desert Dust Storm: Natu
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
A dust storm blew across the
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gobi_amo_2007089
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2007-03-30 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
gobi_amo_2007089 |
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Haze over Korea: Natural Haz
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
On February 6, 2007, thick h
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korea_amo_2007037
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IMAGE |
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image |
| date |
2007-02-06 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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korea_amo_2007037 |
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Floods in Central China: Nat
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
* eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ima
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PoyangHu_TMO_2007199
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IMAGE |
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image |
| date |
2007-07-18 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
PoyangHu_TMO_2007199 |
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Floods in Central China: Nat
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
* eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ima
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Huai_TMO_2007191
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2007-07-10 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
Huai_TMO_2007191 |
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Dust and Clouds over Eastern
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Dust mixed with clouds over
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china_amo_2007090
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2007-03-31 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
china_amo_2007090 |
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Super Typhoon Wipha: Natural
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Super Typhoon Wipha was appr
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wipha_amo_2007261
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2007-09-18 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
wipha_amo_2007261 |
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Dust Storm over the Taklimak
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
On May 10, 2007, a dust stor
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ge_18368
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2007-05-10 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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ge_18368 |
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Dust Storm over the Taklimak
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
On May 10, 2007, a dust stor
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ge_18368
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2007-05-10 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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ge_18368 |
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Haze over China: Natural Haz
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
* eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ima
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china_amo_2007081
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2007-03-22 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
china_amo_2007081 |
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Floods in Central China: Nat
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
* eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ima
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DongtingHu_AMO_2007207
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image |
| date |
2007-07-26 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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DongtingHu_AMO_2007207 |
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