NASA is sending scientists across the world to study the effects of climate change and its impact on human life. This group of scientist will travel from the Deep South Pacific corals to icy Greenland plains to dusty Saharan desert.
The study will majorly revolve around the drastic changes that the climate change is bringing upon us and how we have to alter our lifestyle to adapt to the sudden changing climate.
While such expedition by NASA is not news to them, the next six to eight months will be particularly active period with eight campaigns taking researchers around the world on a wide range of science investigations.
"Scientists worldwide use NASA Earth science field data together with satellite data and computer models to tackle many of today's environmental challenges and advance our knowledge of how the Earth works as a complex, integrated system," Freilich said.
"Combining the long-term global view from space with detailed measurements from field experiments is a powerful way of deciphering what's happening in our world," said Michael Freilich, director of NASA's Earth Science Division in Washington.
Air quality is the focus of the Korea US-Air Quality (KORUS-AQ) campaign in South Korea, which begins in May. Also in May, the North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study (NAAMES) will move to the sea and air for the second year in a row to learn on how the world's largest plankton bloom gives rise to small organic particles that influence clouds and climate.
Team of scientists working on the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) will be in the tundra and forests of Alaska investigating the role of climate in wild fires, wildlife migration habits and insect outbreaks, NASA said.
NASA believes that a better understanding of how the smoke particles alter stratocumulus clouds that play a key role in regional and global surface temperatures and precipitation will help improve current climate models.
Article originally published in NDTV.
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