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NASA’s new three-dimensional portrait of methane shows the world’s second-largest contributor to greenhouse warming as it travels through the atmosphere.
Combining multiple data sets from emissions inventories and simulations of wetlands into a high-resolution computer model, researchers now have an additional tool for understanding this complex gas and its role in Earth’s carbon cycle, atmospheric composition and climate system.
The new data visualization builds a fuller picture of the diversity of methane sources on the ground as well as the behavior of the gas as it moves through the atmosphere.
Music credit: "Reported Missing" by Andrew Michael Britton [PRS] and David Stephen Goldsmith [PRS]
Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
Lead Producer: Katie Jepson (USRA)
Lead Writer: Ellen T. Gray (ADNET)
Lead Visualizer: Cindy Starr (GST)
Scientist: Lesley Ott (NASA/GSFC)
Scientist: Benjamin Poulter (NASA/GSFC)
Scientist: Abhishek Chatterjee (USRA)
Videographer: John Caldwell (AIMM)
Visualizer: Trent L. Schindler (USRA)
Visualizer: Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
Animator: Vuk Nikolic (Freelance)
Narrator: Katie Jepson (USRA)
Editor: Katie Jepson (USRA)
Technical Support: Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET)
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