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Earth as a System
Community Earth System Model
Air Masses
Carbon Cycle Diagram
Carbon Cycle Diagram from NASA
Carbon Cycle Diagram from the DOE
Carbon Cycle Diagram from the DOE with numbers
Carbon Cycle Diagram from the IPCC
Climate system from IPCC AR4
Coal Strip Mine
Earth
Global Atmospheric Circulation
Heat Transfer Diagram
How Big Was That Eruption? Check the Volcanic Explosivity Index!
Map of Ocean Circulation
Mount Pinatubo Eruption, 1991
North Magnetic Pole Location from 1600 to 2001
North Magnetic Pole Location from 1831 to 2001
Radiation Budget Diagram for Earth's Atmosphere
The Rock Cycle
The Water Cycle
Where does carbon dioxide go?
Air Quality
Acid Rain Damage
Air Quality in Denver, Colorado
Carbon Dioxide molecule
Carbon Monoxide molecule
Chemical Composition of the Atmosphere Diagram
Dust storm
Earth's Atmospheric Composition Diagram
Factory Smoke
Forest Fires Create Air Pollution
Gases in Earth's Atmosphere
Haze over Mexico City
Inversion over Boulder, Colorado
Methane molecule
Nitric Oxide molecule
Nitrogen Dioxide During Coronavirus Shutdown (2020)
Nitrogen Dioxide molecule
Nitrogen molecule
Oil Refineries Create Air Pollution
Oxygen molecule
Ozone damage to potato leaves
Ozone Hole Over Antartica
Ozone molecule
Pollution from Vehicles
Propane molecule - Hydrocarbon example
Sizes of Aerosols, Raindrop and Cloud Droplets
Smog
Temperature Inversion
What You Can Do to Improve Air Quality
How Weather Works
Air Masses
Cold Front
Dropsonde in Flight
Foggy Weather
Global Atmospheric Circulation
Heat Transfer Diagram
High and Low Pressure Systems
How Clouds Form
Occluded Front
Rainbows
Sonde and Dropsonde Photos
Stationary Front
The Water Cycle
Warm Front
Weather Balloon Photos
Clouds
Altocumulus clouds
Altostratus clouds
Cirrocumulus clouds
Cirrostratus clouds
Cirrus Clouds
Cloud Types Diagram
Clouds Form Due to Mountains
Clouds Form Due to Weather Fronts
Clouds Form When Air is Forced to Rise
Contrails
Contrails
Contrails: Three Types
Cumulonimbus clouds
Cumulus clouds
How Clouds Form
Kelvin-Helmholtz Clouds
Lenticular Clouds
Mammatus Clouds
Marine Stratocumulus Clouds
Nimbostratus clouds
Nimbus Munnekeholm by Berndnaut Smilde
Noctilucent Clouds
Persistent Non-Spreading Contrails
Persistent Spreading Contrails
Polar Stratospheric Clouds
Short Lived Contrails
Stratocumulus clouds
Stratus clouds
Layers of the Atmosphere
Atmosphere of Jupiter in December 2000
Aurora from International Space Station on July 25, 2010
Diagram of Atmosphere Layers
Dropsonde in Flight
Earth's Atmosphere from ISS
Earth's Atmospheric Composition Diagram
Earth's Magnetosphere
Ionosphere Diagram - Regions & Altitude
Mesosphere diagram
Sonde and Dropsonde Photos
Stratosphere Diagram
Troposphere Diagram
Weather Balloon Photos
Sun and Space Weather
Aurora from International Space Station on July 25, 2010
Compare Sun Images - Visible Light and Ultraviolet
Coronal Holes in Ultraviolet Solar Image - January 2011
Coronal Loops - UV image from TRACE - November 1999
Coronal Mass Ejection January 2002
Cosmic Ray Air Shower
Earth and Sun
Earth's Dipole Magnetic Field
Earth's Magnetosphere
Graph of Sunspot Counts
North Magnetic Pole Location from 1600 to 2001
North Magnetic Pole Location from 1831 to 2001
Photosphere - Sunspots and Granulation
Red Light (H-alpha) View of the Sun - July 18, 2000
Regions of the Sun
Solar Active Regions - Sunspots and UV Image
Solar Chromosphere Eclipse Photo
Solar Corona - Eclipse and UV Images
Solar Eclipse 1991 from Hawaii
Solar Filament in H-alpha Light in July 2000
Solar Flare November 2003
Solar Prominences - Sept. 1999 & March 2003 - Ultraviolet SOHO images
Sun at Solar Min - Red Light
Sun with Sunspots - March 29, 2001
Sun with Sunspots - Solar Max 2001 and Solar Min 2005
Sun's Atmosphere - Corona and Chromosphere
Sun's Corona at Solar Min & Solar Max
Sun's Spectrum
Sunspots
Sunspots
The Sun in Ultraviolet Light
Ultraviolet (UV) Blacklight
Ultraviolet Sun with Coronal Loops - April 2012
Wavelength of Blue and Red Light
Storms and Other Weather
Big and Small, A Snowflake Story
Blowing snow during a blizzard reduces visibility.
How Hurricanes Form
How Tornadoes Form
Hurricane
Hurricane Damage
Ice Storm
Lightning
Snowflake
Snowstorm
Storm Front Over Lake Superior
Supercell Thunderstorm
Thunderstorm
Thunderstorm Formation
Tornado in Wyoming (U.S.) on June 5, 2009
Wind
How Climate Works
Carbon Cycle Diagram
Carbon Cycle Diagram from the DOE
Climate system from IPCC AR4
Coal Strip Mine
Glacial Lake Agassiz
How Greenhouse Gases Trap Heat
How to Measure Global Average Temperature in Five Easy Steps
Just Add Humans: How Models Simulate 20th Century Climate With (top) and Without (bottom) the Impacts of Humans
Pollen Picture
Radiation Budget Diagram for Earth's Atmosphere
The Year Without a Summer
Tree Rings
What Does it Mean to Change the Mean?
Solving Climate Change
Concentrated Solar Power
Crop Improvement
Eat A Plant Rich Diet
Elevating Homes
Geothermal Power
Green Roofs and Walls
High Speed Trains
Hydroelectric Dam
Nuclear Power Plant
Planting Cassava
Rain Gardens
Solar Energy
Wind Turbines
Impacts of Climate Change
Cracks in Dry Mud
Drought in the central United States
How Thawing Permafrost Soils Release Greenhouse Gases
Sea Level Change in Bangladesh
The Future of Precipitation
The New Normal: Changes in Annual Normal Temperatures
Urban Heat in New York City
Where are the farms in the United States?
Where does carbon dioxide go?
Which areas are projected to get drier?