Category: Assessing Air Quality & Water Resources Project Team: Maricopa County Health & Air Quality Team Location: Maricopa County Department of Public Health and Arizona State University – Tempe, Arizona Authors: Jason Hodgson Leslie Araujo Tamara Dunbarr Mentors/Advisors: Dr. David Hondula (Arizona State University) Past/Other Contributors: Lance Watkins (Center Lead) Abstract: One of the most prevalent issues with air quality … Read More
Clearing the Air: Aerosol Estimates in the Coastal United States
Category: Assessing Air Quality & Water Resources Project Team: Coastal US Health & Air Quality Team Location: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Centers for Environmental Information ÛÒ Asheville, North Carolina Authors: Christie Stevens Toni Strauch Alec Courtright Mentors/Advisors: Annette Hollingshead (Global Science & Technology, Inc.) DeWayne Cecil (Global Science & Technology, Inc.) Jesse Bell (Centers for Disease Control and … Read More
The Ozone Effect: Life in the Troposphere
Category: Assessing Air Quality & Water Resources Project Team: Appalachian Trail Health & Air Quality Team Location: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, and Wise County Clerk of Court’s Office, Wise, Virginia Authors: Amy Wolfe Amber Showers Emily Beyer Eric White Tyler Rhodes Mentors/Advisors: Dr. Kenton Ross (NASA Langley Research Center) Dr. Travis Knepp (Science Systems and Applications Inc.) Past/Other … Read More
The Steaks are High! Methane on the Rise
Category: Assessing Air Quality and Water Resources Project Team: San Francisco Bay Area Health & Air Quality Team Location: NASA Ames Research Center ÛÒ Moffett Field, California Authors: Maya Midzik Joseph Abbate Garima Raheja Mentors/Advisors: Dr. Abhinav Guha (Bay Area Air Quality Management District) Dr. Laura Iraci (Ames Research Center) Dr. Josette Marrero (NASA Postdoctoral Program) Warren Gore (Ames Research … Read More
Send in the Clouds: Examining Air Quality in the Gulf of Mexico
The Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) of the Gulf of Mexico houses more than 3,000 offshore oil and gas production facilities. These facilities emit criteria pollutants that are known to have both human health and environmental impacts.
Enhancing Ocean Color Observation from Space: A Look Forward to NASA’s PACE and GEO-CAPE Missions
Future NASA satellites will extend the reach of global ocean color observation and research.
Saharan Dust and Wildfire Smoke: An Evaluation of Enhancing AirNow with NASA Satellite Data
We present two case studies as a way to evaluate the performance of the AirNow Satellite Data Processor (ASDP): a Saharan dust transport event and a wildfire smoke event.
An Application for Improving Air Quality (a Houston Case Study)
In this work, we focus on the surface layer scheme, which provides input to the land and surface sub-models to calculate surface heat, momentum and moisture fluxes that drive the planetary boundary layer schemes that determine near surface wind speeds.
Air pollution 'kills 7m people a year'
Originally Published by The Guardian – WHO report says issue is now biggest single environmental health risk and the cause of one in eight deaths worldwide.
VIDEO: Mexico City's smog-capture building
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