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High-resolution reflectance data from the Arctic

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Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI) for a site on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska collected on August 14, 2018. SAVI is similar to NDVI, but it suppresses the effects of soil pixels and it uses a canopy background adjustment factor. The reflectance data used to calculate SAVI was collected by the AVIRIS-NG instrument on a flight over the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, on August 14, 2018.

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New AVIRIS-NG data from the 2018 ABoVE airborne campaign and an accompanying data processing tutorial are now available.

Soil Carbon Stocks for Tidal Wetlands

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Estimated soil carbon stocks (using model results) throughout the Mississippi River delta in Louisiana. Cooler colors (blues and greens) indicate higher soil carbon concentrations.

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Researchers with NASA's Carbon Monitoring System estimated the amount of carbon stored in the soil in tidal wetlands of the United States.

Field Measurements After Alaskan Wildfires

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Photos from July 2017 field surveys near Tanana, Alaska, from left to right: unburned forest site; burned forest near the Spicer Creek Fire; high burn severity forest site.

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Researchers with NASA's ABoVE field campaign measured burn severity in spruce forests that burned in 2015 near Tanana, Alaska.

Soil Carbon Stocks for Tidal Wetlands

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Results of three carbon stock estimation approaches for the Louisiana Delta region: Left, using independently generated soil carbon maps from SSURGO; Middle, using the SSURGO bias-corrected for bulk density; Right, using single average carbon stock value from the compiled soil core data.

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Soil carbon stocks for tidal wetland areas of the United States were estimated using four modeling approaches.

Atmospheric Profiles of Hydroxyl and Formaldehyde

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Circles mark the locations of the 139 selected profiles sampling the remote troposphere. Circle color indicates HCHO column densities integrated over each ATom profile. Data are overlain on global gridded OMI HCHO column densities averaged over the mission. From Wolfe et al. (2019) (see dataset references).

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New data from NASA's Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom) provide hydroxyl and formaldehyde column density in the remote troposphere.