Weather and Climate
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What Is the Greenhouse Effect?
What's the Difference Between Weather and Climate?
How Do We Know Earth Is Changing?
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What Are Greenhouse Gases?
Which Pole Is Colder?
What Is the Greenhouse Effect?
What Is Earth's Global Average Temperature and How Is It Changing?
What Are Climate Models?
What Is Climate Change?
How is Cold Weather Changing?
A Guide to Climate Change
NASA Missions Studying Weather & Climate
Airborne Science Program
The Airborne Science Program uses different kinds of aircraft to test the instruments that fly on spacecraft, such as satellites.
Aura
Aura has several instruments that work together to measure particles in the air called aerosols, ozone gas and other gases in Earth’s atmosphere.
CLARREO Pathfinder
CLARREO Pathfinder will measure the light and energy reflected off the Earth that comes from the Sun and will help to improve the accuracy of climate measurements collected by other satellites.
CYGNSS
The Global Navigation Satellite System provides our cell phones and cars with locations for navigation; the CYGNSS mission has seven satellites that measure how these signals bounce off of the ocean.
DSCOVR
DSCOVR collects observations of the Earth’s atmosphere and monitors the flow of particles from the Sun, called solar wind.
Suomi-NPP
Suomi-NPP is a satellite with five instruments that watch Earth's environment and climate.
TROPICS
This mission is four separate satellites, each made up of three CubeSats. TROPICS will measure atmospheric temperature profiles and precipitation.
