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Video: Making Saharan Air Apparent

By Marc Boucher
Status Report
September 16, 2014
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Video: Making Saharan Air Apparent
Video: Making Saharan Air Apparent
NASA

NASA’s Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL) instrument, flying aboard an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft in this summer’s Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel or HS3 mission, is studying the changing profile of the atmosphere in detail to learn more about how hurricanes form and strengthen.

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