The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (14 November 2017)

New Features: https://earthobservatory nasa gov/Features/

• Africa's Great Lake Hanging in the Balance: Scientists Monitor the Rise and Fall of Lake Chad https://earthobservatory nasa gov/Features/LakeChad/?src=eoa-features More than 30 million people in Africa depend on Lake Chad for fresh water But satellite and ground-based data show that the once-great lake now spans less than a tenth of the area it covered in the 1960s

Latest Images: https://earthobservatory nasa gov/IOTD/

• Connecting the Dots Between Dust, Phytoplankton, and Ice Cores https://earthobservatory nasa gov/IOTD/view php?id=91267&src=eoa-iotd

• Sulfur Dioxide Emissions Fall in China, Rise in India https://earthobservatory nasa gov/IOTD/view php?id=91270&src=eoa-iotd

• Salt Glacier, Zagros Mountains https://earthobservatory nasa gov/IOTD/view php?id=91264&src=eoa-iotd

• An Unusual Angle https://earthobservatory nasa gov/IOTD/view php?id=91258&src=eoa-iotd

• A Gateway to Antarctica https://earthobservatory nasa gov/IOTD/view php?id=91246&src=eoa-iotd

• Ginseng Farms in Northern China https://earthobservatory nasa gov/IOTD/view php?id=91254&src=eoa-iotd

• Haze Blankets Northern India https://earthobservatory nasa gov/IOTD/view php?id=91240&src=eoa-iotd

• Water Shortage in Western Cape https://earthobservatory nasa gov/IOTD/view php?id=91217&src=eoa-iotd

Recent Blog Posts: https://earthobservatory nasa gov/blogs/

Earth Matters * What A Wonderful World: Pinacate Peaks https://earthobservatory nasa gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=7857&src=eoa-blogs

• Landsat 8 Thermal Data Ghost-Free After Stray Light Exorcism https://earthobservatory nasa gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=7966&src=eoa-blogs

Notes from the Field * The Gravity of Larsen C The Operation IceBridge mission flew its suite of airborne instruments over Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf and I caught a first-hand look https://earthobservatory nasa gov/blogs/fromthefield/?p=9194&src=eoa-blogs

• Raining in the Fog of Carbon Dioxide Chemistry Trying to clearly explain the carbonate chemistry of seawater taxes the best in our field https://earthobservatory nasa gov/blogs/fromthefield/?p=9215&src=eoa-blogs

• Anchoring Ocean Science — Moored Measurements with Steady Humans! While ocean moorings are often described as autonomous observing platforms, the human ingenuity required to deploy and recover them demands a steady human with a tight grip https://earthobservatory nasa gov/blogs/fromthefield/?p=9185&src=eoa-blogs

• Welcome to Ushuaia For the first time, Operation IceBridge flights to Antarctica are being staged from Ushuaia, Argentina https://earthobservatory nasa gov/blogs/fromthefield/?p=9163&src=eoa-blogs

• The Dance of the Atmosphere and Ocean PURS-2 continues a legacy of experiments focused on the dance between the atmosphere and ocean
  https://earthobservatory nasa gov/blogs/fromthefield/?p=9148&src=eoa-blogs

• The Autonomous Platform Revolution There is a robotic revolution going on in oceanography https://earthobservatory nasa gov/blogs/fromthefield/?p=9135&src=eoa-blogs

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