Late winter storms dropped a fresh coating of snow across the Alps in mid-March 2016.
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A slow-moving weather system brought a deluge to the U.S. South, flooding communities in multiple states.
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In March 2016, wildfires spread across two UNESCO World Heritage sites in Thailand.
Atmosphere Land Fires
A collaborative field study seeks to advance NASA’s ability to monitor air quality from space.
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Colorful ocean water spread across the Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent.
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Winds lofted dust from the Sahara desert and sent it drifting over the Iberian peninsula.
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Dust was streaming across large swaths of Iraq when the Aqua satellite captured this image.
Atmosphere Dust and Haze
The menacing storm is predicted to reach the island nation with category 4 winds.
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The eruption at the Kamchatkan volcano continues thirty months after it began.
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Long bands of cumulus clouds lined up over the Great Lakes in this spectacular display of “cloud streets.”
Atmosphere Unique Imagery
Many regions in the western half of the United States saw ample snowfall in early 2016.
Land Severe Storms Snow and Ice
Whether a patch of clouds contains open or closed cells offers a clue about whether rain is falling below.
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Winds loft dust from Western Sahara, Mauritania, and Senegal westward over the Atlantic Ocean.
Snowfall blankets areas of South Korea and strands travelers.
A great blizzard has painted many states white.
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Hurricane Pali became the earliest hurricane on record in the Central Pacific.
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A fast-moving blaze destroyed 128 homes in Yarloop, a town in Western Australia.
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Military attacks sent smoke billowing from oil production facilities near Sidra.
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As is often the case in the winter, haze hovered over the Indo-Gangetic Plain in January 2016, darkening skies over northern India and Bangladesh.
Hole-punch and canal clouds form when aircraft pass through altocumulus clouds that are rich with supercooled water droplets.
Authorities in Beijing have issued a first-ever “red” air pollution alert.
Like an island or ship, some icebergs are large enough to influence cloud patterns above.
Image of the Day Water Snow and Ice Sea and Lake Ice
The swirling greens and blues are densely concentrated, microscopic plants growing on the surface of the ocean.
Life Water Water Color
Sandra was a tropical storm before growing into a late-season hurricane.
Atmosphere Severe Storms
For a region that is quite familiar with snow, it was still a storm for the history books.
The troughs and ridges of atmospheric waves created a distinctive pattern in the clouds.
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Central Asia’s snowy Himalaya range rises above a dry plateau to the north and a vegetated plain to the south.
Land Unique Imagery Snow and Ice
A few weeks before the arrival of winter, some areas of Canada and the western United States were doused with cold rain and snow.
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In early November 2015, dense fog disrupted air travel in London and central Europe.
Ash from Mount Rinjani closed airports on three Indonesian islands.
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