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Aura Presentation

Sizing Up Humanity's Impacts on Earth's Changing Atmosphere

By Alan Buis | NASA JPL

Part 1: (TES) Earth's Security Blanket
Part 2: Getting a Handle on Carbon Dioxide
Part 3: (MLS and OMI) Tracking the Ongoing Recovery of Earth's Ozone Hole
Part 4: (OMI) Fresh Insights on Air Quality, Ozone and Climate

Dear EOS Aura Colleagues,

The oral and poster presentations for the Aura Science Team meeting, which was held August 27-29, 2019 in Pasadena, California, are now available online.

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Regards,
Bryan Duncan
(Aura Project Scientist)

Congratulations to the Ozone Instrument Team for receiving the 2018 Pecora Award and a 2021 AMS Special Award

Pictured:Members of the OMI international science team at the 19th OMI science team meeting.

Photo courtesy of Maarten Sneep, KNMI.

Aura is a large contributer to this NASA web site which show how satellite data of air pollution may be used for health, air quality, and agricultural security applications.

View the latest status of the ozone layer over the Antarctic, with a focus on the ozone hole.

NEW! For scientists:Global OMI Nitrogen Dioxide Monitoring from NASA's Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory

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