Interesting weather images
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I am a sucker for photos of clouds, geography, and space. These 50 photos show the amazing variety of our solar system taken from a number of satellites and spacecraft over time. We have learned so much about weather and geology on other planets by looking at these images! Enjoy them at https://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/best-space-photos/.
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Here’s a very interesting video from NASA Goddard on how satellites have changed our views of the earth and some of the things we have learned about our planet from viewing it from space. You can view it on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oIcJBiynvw&feature=share.
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Here is a very cool video showing the atmospheric loading by dust, smoke, sea salt, and other aerosol tracers over the 2017 hurricane season. It’s amazing to watch the dance of different aerosol types and see the hurricanes develop and move over the Atlantic Ocean as the season progresses. The smoke coming off the western…
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Here are a couple of new video series that you might enjoy watching related to climate and agriculture. The first is ABC News Food Forecast featuring Ginger Zee from Good Morning America (a former student of my husband) about how weather and climate impacts our food. You can see the list of videos at https://abc.go.com/shows/food-forecast/episode-guide.…
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Big Picture Agriculture has a short but interesting article on a new publication showcasing a variety of maps that describe land uses across the US. Since I love maps, it was fun to look at the maps and think about what they mean for agriculture here. The map below shows the percent of land owned…
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While I still have power at my house, here is an article about some interesting facts on Irma from my colleague Dr. Marshall Shepherd at UGA from Forbes.com. You can read it (if you have power or internet access) at https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2017/09/11/six-surprising-things-about-hurricane-irma/#4922a50f505d. Also, here is a cool MODIS image of Irma which shows all the sediment…
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While most of us in the Southeast are focused on dealing with the reality that is Irma, producers in other parts of the US are dealing with their own disasters. I will discuss the impacts of Harvey tomorrow. Today I want to discuss the wildfires out west, which have covered a huge amount of territory.…