New 3D View of Methane Tracks Sources and Movement (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

New 3D View of Methane Tracks Sources and Movement

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NASA's new 3-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.

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NASA/Scientific Visualization Studio

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