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Pages 161-168

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... Light blue areas show adjacent cold clouds' tops associated with strong thunderstorms embedded within the storm. SOURCE: Courtesy of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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... NASA image taken by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) -- the research equivalent of the Visible and Infrared Imager/ Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)
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... Compared with the current operational system, the new capability will provide greatly improved spatial resolution, more rapid temporal refresh, and finer vertical resolution through increased spectral information content. SOURCE: Bormin Huang, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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... , U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, August 2001, p.
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... mean seasurface temperature, Pacific Ocean, California, September 11, 2002 (the color bar is temperature in degrees Celsius)
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... . Image courtesy of the Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS)
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... 2003. "Climate-Driven Increases in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 1982 to 1999," Science 300:1560-1563.
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... SOURCE: Courtesy of Lloyd Queen, University of Montana. PLATE 10 Terra MODIS (Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer)
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