Observatory Night: Monitoring Air Pollution from Space
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The Center for Astrophysics invite you to this virtual event with Caroline Nowlan is a physicist in the Atomic and Molecular Physics Division at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian.
The Center for Astrophysics invite you to this virtual event with Caroline Nowlan is a physicist in the Atomic and Molecular Physics Division at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian.
This April, a Smithsonian and NASA-led instrument named TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution) will be launched onboard a satellite into a geostationary orbit. From this vantage point, TEMPO will be able to monitor air quality over most of North America every hour, with unprecedented spatial resolution. In this presentation, atmospheric physicist Caroline Nowlan will talk about how we measure air pollution from space and how TEMPO promises to revolutionize our understanding of the air we breathe.
Caroline Nowlan is a physicist in the Atomic and Molecular Physics Division at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, where she works on remote sensing of the Earth’s atmosphere using satellite and aircraft instruments. She is a member of the team working on NASA’s next-generation air quality satellite mission, TEMPO, and is an investigator on projects examining urban air pollution in the U.S. and Korea using remote sensing of the atmosphere from aircraft.
This is a virtual event that will be streamed to the CfA's YouTube channel. For more information, visit the event page.
Contact: obsvnight@cfa.harvard.edu