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Mostly retired, worked as a NASA contractor during atmospheric research on ozone and aerosols at Goddard Space Flight Center. Still keep my hand in things one day per week.
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Good Lord, @reuters.com should be ashamed of this article: www.reuters.com/technology/s...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

#Saharandust approached Mediterranean #Europe. The #Copernicus #Sentinel5p Aerosol Index image collected on Feb. 3 shows the dust transport heading South. #Italy #Greece and #Cyprus confirming the #CAMS forecast. Sabbia del Sahara sull'#Italia meridionale. #AirQuality @giuliofirenze.bsky.social

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

@envirodgi.bsky.social and @eotarchive.org have been working to preserve government data since before Trump was inaugurated. Given recent deletions of federal webpages with crucial scientific, medical and historical info, now is a good time to support these initiatives. envirodatagov.org/donate/

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Beautiful sunrise this morning in the DC area, a day or so after the big (for us, anyway) snowstorm.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

First pyroCb event of the southern hemisphere summer occurred on 20 December from a fire burning in Grampians National Park in Australia. Here's the Aerosol Index from NOAA-20 OMPS showing the smoke plume generated by the event.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

I joined Blue Sky quite awhile ago but haven't yet posted. So let's start things off with a quick animation of this year's ozone hole as seen by the S-NPP OMPS instrument. NASA/NOAA say that it's a relatively small hole this year, evidence of the Montreal Protocol at work.

submitted 123 days ago • 5 comments