• The AIRS/AMSU data have been used to connect changes in water vapour, temperature, and precipitation to the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and are helping to reveal new insights into the water-vapour/climate feedback.                              

• AIRS/AMSU data have also been used to calculate and map several other prominent trace gases, including the second and third most abundant greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO ) and methane, respectively, plus ozone, carbon monoxide, and sulphur dioxide.                                                                                                                               

• AIRS/AMSU data have led to improved understanding of the impact of the Saharan Air Layer on hurricane formation and intensification, and an enhanced MODIS aerosol algorithm allows derivation of aerosol properties over bright reflecting surfaces, such as deserts.                                                                                                                   

• By taking advantage of the strengths of both instruments, the AMSR-E and MODIS data together can be used to obtain enhanced overall results, for instance more accurate estimates of snow-water equivalent.                                                                                

• The MODIS NDVI and EVI data have been used in global biogeochemical and hydrologic modelling as well as for agricultural monitoring, land cover characterisation, and land cover change detection.                                                                     

• They have also been used to show large inter-annual variability in SST, a portion of which is related to El Niño and La Niña events, and to provide data for investigating climate feedback processes                         

   

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