LAGEOS

• Geodesy (11)

Landsat

• Seasonal snow cover (6)

• Increasing growing season (9)

• Studying plant physiology (9)

• Monitoring agricultural lands (10)

• Estimating tropical deforestation (10)

• Mapping global land cover (2, 10)

• Understanding desertification (10)

• Monitoring urban areas (10)

Nimbus series

• Observing stratospheric dynamics (5)

• Observing distribution and decrease of stratospheric ozone (5)

• Measuring stratospheric trace gases (5)

• Antarctic ozone hole (5)

• Tropospheric ozone (5)

• Declining Arctic summer sea ice (7)

• Satellite images corroborate Sverdrup’s theory (8)

• First global maps of marine primary productivity (9)

• First atmospheric soundings (3, 4, 5)

NOAA

• Impact of a volcanic eruption on climate (4)

• Global sea surface temperature observations (8)

• Atmospheric temperature and moisture soundings for weather prediction (3)

• Monitoring global total ozone column over Antarctica (5)

QuikScat

• Ocean wind measurements reveal two-way ocean-atmosphere interaction (8)

RadarSat

• Nonuniform and dynamic ice streams in Antarctica (7)

• Declining Arctic summer sea ice (7)

SRTM

• Use of satellite-derived elevation data in hydrology (6)

• First fine-resolution topography map (11)

Terra/Aqua

• Distribution of tropospheric carbon monoxide, ozone precursor (5)

• Mapping global fires (10)

• Indirect effects of aerosols (4)

• Global distribution of cloud properties (4)

• Global climatology of aerosols (4)

• Global marine and terrestrial primary productivity (9)

• The carbon cycle (9)

TIROS

• Weather imagery (2, 3)

• Numerical weather prediction (3)

TOPEX/Poseidon

• Global mean sea level (8)

• Understanding ocean tides (8)

• Westward propagating sea-surface height variability (8)

• Discovery of internal tides and their contribution to ocean mixing (8)

• El Niño (9)

TRMM

• Precipitation over the oceans and the tropics (6)

• Ligntning as source of tropospheric NOx (5)

UARS

• Stratospheric ozone distribution (5)

• Role of chloride in ozone depletion (5)

• Transport and partitioning of chlorine species in stratosphere (5)

• Depiction of tropical tape recorder (5)