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August 12, 2024 Natural Events

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Fires Rage Along Brazil's Deforestation Frontier Dense smoke streamed from rainforests in Amazonas and Para. (Aug 8, 2024)       Debby Soaks the Southeast The storm delivered rainfall totals of more than a foot to parts of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas before marching toward the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. (Aug 8, 2024)       Landslide Dams the Chilcotin River Debris from a landslide in British Columbia blocked the river's flow for several days before water found a way through. (Aug 6, 2024)       Hurricane Debby Hits Florida The Category 1 storm battered the Big Bend region and is forecast to dump intense rainfall over the U.S. Southeast. (Aug 5, 2024)

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NASA Satellite Teams Seek Protection from the Sun           Solar storms can impact satellite orbits, instrument health, and data transmission. Teams managing NASA’s constellation of Earth observation satellites rely on many strategies to minimize solar impacts and keep data flowing.                     Articles

Tracking PyroCb Events from Canadian Wildfires Intense wildfires can create or enhance thunderstorms. These pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) events bring aerosols high into the atmosphere that can be remotely sensed by instruments such as the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) and tracked using OMPS data products like the Aerosol Index.           NASA Data Help the U.S. Navy Forecast Tropical Cyclones Satellite data help U.S. Navy meteorologists track, monitor, and forecast tropical cyclones, especially low-latency data from NASA’s Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for Earth observations (LANCE).           Hurricane Beryl’s Path of Precipitation Hurricane Beryl created a long swath of heavy rainfall as it moved through the Grenadine islands, past Jamaica, and onto the Texas coast, eventually bringing tropical rain to the U.S. Northeast. The path of the storm can be tracked using data from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission.           NASA Provides Satellite Data Solutions New data products from NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission and an automated product to track harmful algal blooms (HABs) are two of the six science activities NASA will undertake to help meet identified Earth observation needs of U.S. Federal civilian agencies.                   Webinars & Events

Learn How to Access Commercial SmallSat Data Acquired by NASA August 28, 2024           NASA’s Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program evaluates and acquires commercial small satellite (SmallSat) data to enhance NASA’s Earth science data collection. Join this webinar for an overview of CSDA and learn how to access these commercial data.                     Celebrating 10 Years of Global Precipitation Measurement Mission (GPM) Data September 5, 2024 The September focus of the monthly GPM 10-in-10 webinar series is on GPM data applications. The July (Remote Sensing) and August (Data) webinars featured participation by members of NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program. Videos of past webinars are available on the GPM 10-in-10 website.                         New Data, Tutorials, & Resources           Discover NASA Earth Science Data Released in July NASA’s archive of unrestricted data continues to grow. Read summaries of the latest data products, services, and tools released over the past month.           Open Tutorials for Learning Remote Sensing with ECOSTRESS Data A new series of openly available tutorials is available to show college and university students how to use data from NASA’s Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) mission and share ECOSTRESS science findings with the media.           GEDI Data Product Offers Greater Insights into Forest Habitats The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) mission’s new Level 4C Footprint Level Waveform Structural Complexity Index, Version 2 dataset enables investigations into forest habitat quality, species diversity, and ecosystem function.           TEMPO Layers are Ready for You in NASA Worldview Fourteen data layers were just added from NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission. Interactively explore data related to clouds, formaldehyde, nitrogen, and ozone.           Easier Access to Field Campaign Data The Field Campaign Explorer (FCX) data tool helps scientists discover, collect, visualize, and analyze field campaign datasets more rapidly. Upcoming FCX enhancements enable users to select an instrument they’re interested in and see datasets from multiple campaigns simultaneously.                   OpenScience                 Earn Your NASA Open Science Digital Badge Open Science 101 is a free self-paced public training to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to navigate the principles and practices of open science. Scheduled instructor-led virtual training is available, including training in Spanish.                   Worldview Images of the Week           Hurricane Beryl Blasts the Caribbean Hurricane Beryl rapidly intensified to become the earliest Category 5 storm ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. This image shows Beryl as a Category 4 storm with measured winds of 145 mph as it tracked toward Jamaica.           Canadian Wildfires After a record-setting 2023 wildfire season—and a slow start to the 2024 season—many fires are now burning in central and western Canada. Smoke from these fires is drifting south into northern and northeastern parts of the U.S.                 NASA's Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program oversees the life cycle of NASA’s Earth science data and seeks to maximize the scientific return from missions and experiments.

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