Higher Education: On Monitoring CO2 & CH4 Via AIRS
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15-03-2020

A researcher in the Center for Air and Space Sciences in the Directorate of Aerospace and Communications, merged Ministry of Science and Technology conducted a research on the temporal and spatial monitoring of CO2 and CH4 gases over Iraq via using the AIRS sensor data. The research aimed at implementing satellite data represented by the AIRS satellite sensor on the AQUA satellite to monitor the change of CO2 and CH4 concentrations over Iraq where CO2 and CH4 gas contribute 60% and 17% to the phenomenon of global warming in the Earth's atmosphere and increase the emission of these gases contributed to increase temperatures that leads to drought and the expansion of deserts and thus affected agriculture, food and water security. The research reviewed a clear increase in the study area (Iraq), the average increase in CO2 (1.85 ppm per year) for the period from 2010-2016 and the average increase reached (3.5 and 5.11 ppb per year) for methane at the standard pressure levels -925 and 400 hpa, for the period from 2003-2016, as well as the agreements such as the Kyoto agreement included reducing greenhouse gas emissions and its direct and indirect impact on human health.

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