Background information on snow and ice extent.
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Review this page to learn about the background of volcanoes and their eruptions.
Phytoplankton background information.
Earth System Approach
Background information on the El Nino Southern Oscillation or ENSO.
What is the hydrosphere and why is it important?
Image Credit: NASA
Students can interact with NASA data to build a custom visualizations of local, regional, or global plant growth patterns over time, using the Earth System Data Explorer to generate plots of satellite data as they develop models of this phenomenon.
The volume of data in a single file or file system can be described by a unit called a byte. However, data volumes can become very large when dealing with Earth satellite data. Below is a table to explain data volume units (Credit: Roy Williams, Center for Advanced Computing Research at the California Institute of Technology).
