First Global Carbon Monoxide Measurements

Caption

First Global Carbon Monoxide (Air Pollution) Measurements

Summary

The map and animation use false colors to represent levels of carbon monoxide in the lower
atmosphere:

  • dark brown – 390 parts per billion
  • red – 220 parts per billion
  • blue – 50 parts per billion

Carbon monoxide (CO) is a byproduct of the burning of fossil fuels.
Industry, automobiles and the burning of forests and grasslands all contribute to
CO pollution. Notice the seasonal variations in the concentration of CO.

The movie shows the movement of CO in the atmosphere during the period
March 1 – December 31, 2000.








Source

The map and animation are Image 1788
[1]
from Visible Earth: A catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet. The animation is from the same web page.

The image and animation are courtesy NASA GSFC Scientific Visualization Studio, and are
based on data from MOPITT (Canadian Space Agency and University of Toronto).

Copyright

Public domain This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the United States Code.