Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio Collection
Title:
El Niño-La Niña Sea Surface Temperature, Height, and Wind Anomalies: Jan. 1997 through Dec. 1999
Instrument:
DMSP/SSMI
Instrument:
NOAA-14/AVHRR
Instrument:
TOPEX/Poseidon
Description:
El Nino-La Nina sea surface temperature, height, and wind anomalies in the Pacific for January 1997 through December 1999. Wind anomalies stop at September 1999.
Duration: 1.3 minutes
Abstract:
This animation shows the onset of the very strong 1997 El Niño, followed by its collapse and replacement by La Niña. Anomalously warm waters slosh across the Pacific in late 1997 as El Niño begins and the equatorial trade winds diminish in strength. In May 1998, the El Niño event disperses and is rapidly replaced by its reciprocal phenomenon, La Niña, with anomalously cold water along the eastern equatorial Pacific and a reversal of the wind flow patterns.
Completed:
1999-12-21
Credit:
*Please give credit for this visualization to*
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
Studio:
SVS
Animator:
Greg Shirah (Lead)
Scientist:
Antonio Busalacchi (NASA/GSFC)
Series:
El Niño and La Niña
Data Collected:
1997/01/01-1999/12/3 1
Keywords:
DLESE
Keywords:
Atmospheric science
Keywords:
SVS
Keywords:
HDTV
Keywords:
Physical oceanography
Video:
SVS1999-0030* * *
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_where:
Washington, D.C.
facet_when:
September 1999
facet_when:
May 1998
facet_when:
December 1999
facet_when:
January 1997
facet_what:
Poseidon
facet_what:
TOPEX
facet_what:
TOPEX/Poseidon
facet_what:
DMSP
facet_what:
sea surface temperature
facet_when_year:
1998
facet_when_year:
1999
facet_when_year:
1997
Animation Number:
793
UID:
SPD-SCIVS-http://svs .gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a 000000/a000700/a0007 93/hd000793_720p-IMA GE
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