NASA's Global View of Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen Dioxide

NASA recently released the Global View of CO2 and its pretty amazing. NASA has been tracking air pollution levels over the last decade in around 195 cities. The results are pretty amazing too, I mean the air quality has been improved in United States, Europe and Japan because of emission control regulations. But in middle East region pollution levels are high.

Bryan Duncan, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, led the research. His team made the observation from 2005-14 using Ozone Monitoring Instrument aboard NASA's Aura satellite.

United States and Europe are among the largest emitters of Nitrogen Dioxide but showed dramatic reduction in the Nitrogen Dioxide emission. United States showed 20% - 50% reduction in emission and Western Europe reduced NO2 emission upto 50%. And China did exactly opposite to what Western Countries did, there is a increase in NO2 emission up to 50%.

 United States shows the large decreases in nitrogen dioxide

East Asia shows the change in nitrogen dioxide 

Middle East shows the change in nitrogen dioxide concentrations

Concentration of NO2 in the troposphere

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