find nifty other Bethel maps

• Today’s weather satellite images
  http://pabe.arh.noaa.gov/sat_archive.php?sat=goes&sector=1gvf

• “Public Airports in Alaska” [usually pdf files and often out-of-date]
  http://www.dot.alaska.gov/stwdav/AirportList.shtml

• US Army Corps of Engineers projects [but not indexed at the site. This photo is of the old small boat harbor and riverfront prior to the last erosion control (not that long ago and needing upgrades already)]
  http://images.usace.army.mil/images/Hires/4414-21.Jpg

• “Yukon River Tree Springs to Life”, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor on NASA’s Aqua satellite on March 8, 2004 [Still 2 months before breakup.]
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16490

• [above image] “Bering Sea in Bloom” a dark green color on May 15, 2002, in this SeaWiFS true-color image. [and still sea ice pack] The light brown color of the surface waters along the Alaskan shoreline are probably due to suspended sediments washed off from the land. [Kuskokwim River mouth]
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=9278
• “New Coccolithophore Bloom in Bering Sea” Similar blooms were rare before 1997, but they have appeared every year since then. Scientists believe the coccolithophore blooms are the result of changing wind patterns in the region. April 29, 2000 Weaker than normal winds fail to mix the water of the Bering Sea, resulting in the growth of coccolithophores instead of other types of phytoplankton. Seabird populations have also been changing as a result of this climate change.
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=2919
• “Mystery Plankton Bloom in the Bering Sea “
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=4945
• “Swirls of Color in the Bering Sea” May 13, 2001 [ice on the tundra]
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=4829
• “The Bering Sea”, Over the past several years, dense clouds of phytoplankton (microscopic plants that live in water) have appeared in the Bering Sea each summer. Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) captured this image of coccolithophores off the coast of Alaska on September 13 and 14, 2000
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=4182
• Phytoplankton and Coccolithophores in the Bering Sea June 26 & 27, 2000, shows phytoplankton covering vast stretches of water.
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=3925

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

• “The figure above depicts how much air temperatures near the Earth’s surface changed relative to the global mean temperature from 1951 to 1980. NASA researchers used maps of urban areas derived from city lights data to account for the “heat island” effect of cities.” [I'll locate the nighttime image. Bethel is a heat island and a spot just north on the coast is also very bright.]
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=5210

• “30 Years of Arctic Warming” 1966 to 1995
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=4094

• “Continued Sea Ice Decline in 2005″ This graph shows the five-day mean sea ice extent for July through September for the years 2002 through 2005. All four years were below the average sea ice extent for 1979-2000 (gray line). In fact, recent sea ice extent falls below the 1979-2000 average by an area twice the size of Texas.
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17047

• “Yukon River Delta, Alaska” NASA’s Terra satellite on May 26, 2002. [compare the pattern with the Kuskokwim Delta]
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16643

• “Black Carbon in Smoke over Alaska ” third week of August 2005, moke contains many substances, including carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, water vapor, and particulate matter. OMI measures smoke by tracking black carbon particles, or soot, that absorb ultraviolet (UV) radiation, the wavelengths of sunlight that cause sunburns. Smoke was from Interior Alaska fires.
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17012

• “Autumn Colors Arrive in Alaska” [most beautiful time on the tundra], September 14, 2003
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16305

• “Alaska” In this spectacular MODIS image from November 7, 2001, the skies are clear over Alaska, revealing winter’s advance.
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=5261

• “NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards: On Alert For All Emergencies..”
  http://www.nws.noaa.gov/

---

Add this to Bookmarks:

---

Site Search Tags: NOAA, satellite, Bethel, Bering+Sea, Kuskokwim+Delta, ice+pack, tundra, , NASA, earth+observatory, Army+Corps, ADOTPF, airports, erosion, smoke, algae, break+up, Yukon, plankton, Nunivak, Mekoryuk, SeaWiFS, MODIS, TERRA