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Capturing black carbon aerosol emissions in Alaska

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Figure (a) Map of the CARVE aerosol sampling stations in Alaska, (b) daily sum of fire radiative power from MODIS active fires in 2013 Alaska (from Mouteva et al 2015).

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Carbon aerosol data was collected by NASA's Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE) in summer 2013.

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Tracking soil moisture across North America with AirMOSS

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AirMOSS radar returns at the BERMS site in Saskatchewan, Canada, on April 22, 2013, rendered as a color image. The AirMOSS radar is a P-band fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) that can penetrate through vegetation and soil to depths of approximately 1.2 meters.

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AirMOSS used ultra-high frequency synthetic aperture radar to measure root-zone soil moisture at sites across North America from Canada to Costa Rica.