NASA Outlines Recent Breakthroughs in Greenhouse Gas Research (w/ Video)
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 17:56
in Earth & Climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers studying carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas and a key driver of global climate change, now have a new tool at their disposal: daily global measurements of carbon dioxide in a key part of our atmosphere. The data are courtesy of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft.