NASA just released an eye-opening new 3D visualization that shows just how long carbon dioxide sticks around in the atmosphere – and how it moves around the world. Drawing on data from the ...

The data comes courtesy of NASA’s OCO-2 satellite, which has been taking nearly 100,000 carbon dioxide measurements a day since it came online in September 2014.

The software package pv_atmos is available online, as are examples of Jucker’s 3-D images and movies. The paper, “Scientific visualization of atmospheric data with ParaView,” was published online by ...