Blue Collar Scientist

Scientists using the Vulcan system have generated the most detailed temporal-spatial maps of CO₂ in the United States.

Vulcan directly measures carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, and other air pollutants. But there is a strong correlation between CO₂ emission and the emission of these other pollutants, so the Vulcan data allows you to accurately calculate the presence of the global warming gas.

Purdue’s press release has some interesting fodder.

“For example, we’ve been attributing too many emissions to the northeastern United States, and it’s looking like the southeastern U.S. is a much larger source than we had estimated previously,” says Kevin Gurney, an assistant professor of earth and atmospheric science at Purdue University and leader of the project.

The steamroller of evidence on the anthropogeny of greenhouse gas increases continues to move on pretty relentlessly, with the last few months showing a number of really impressive visualizations of CO₂ data. I think at this point that astronomers like myself don’t have visualizations as impressive as this one….

Tags: air pollution, carbon dioxide, climate change, co2, data visualization, global warming, visualization, Vulcan

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