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More Fires in Los Angeles Co …
A combination of smoke and c …
9/3/09
Description A combination of smoke and clouds hovered over Los Angeles County on the afternoon of September 2, 2009, as remnants of the Station Fire continued to burn. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this true-color image around 1:55 p.m. local time (20:55 UTC) on September 2, 2009. Puffy white clouds hover in the east, but dingy gray smoke lingers in the west and south. (The large image shows smoke spread over the Pacific Ocean.) As of September 3, the historic observatory and TV and radio transmission lines at Mt. Wilson had escaped the flames, but the fire had exacted a tremendous toll on the community. As of the evening of September 2, the Station Fire had cost more than $27 million to fight, according to the Los Angeles Times. According to September 3 report from California's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the fire had burned 144,743 acres (586 square kilometers), and had damaged or destroyed more than 70 homes, three commercial properties, and more than 30 outbuildings or other structures. Hundreds of commercial properties and thousands of homes remained under threat, but the fire was 38 percent contained. Credit: NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center. The Rapid Response Team provides daily images of this area. Caption by Michon Scott.
Date 9/3/09
HURRICANE CARLOTTA SPINS IN …
With winds reaching 250 kilo …
7/7/00
Date 7/7/00
Description With winds reaching 250 kilometers per hour (155 mph), this year's Hurricane Carlotta became the second strongest eastern Pacific June hurricane on record. New images from NASA's Multi- angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) show the hurricane on June 21, the day of its peak intensity. MISR, built and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., is one of several Earth-observing instruments aboard NASA's Terra satellite, which was launched in December 1999. This set of images has been oriented so that the spacecraft's flight path is from left to right, north is at the left. The top image is a color view from MISR's vertical (nadir) camera, showing Carlotta's location in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The middle image is a stereoscopic anaglyph created using MISR's nadir camera plus one of its aftward-viewing cameras, and shows a closer view of the area around the hurricane. Viewing with red/blue glasses (red filter over the left eye) is required to obtain a 3-D stereo effect. Near the center of the storm, the eye is about 25 kilometers (16 miles) in diameter and partially obscured by a thin cloud. About 50 kilometers (31 miles) to the left of the eye, the sharp drop- off from high-level to low-level cloud gives a sense of the vertical extent of the hidden eye wall. The low-level cloud is spiraling counterclockwise into the center of the cyclone. It then rises in the vicinity of the eye wall and emerges with a clockwise rotation at high altitude. Maximum surface winds are found near the eye wall. The bottom stereo image is a zoomed-in view of convective clouds in the hurricane's spiral arms. The arms are breeding grounds for severe thunderstorms, with associated heavy rain and flooding, frequent lightning, and tornadoes. Thunderstorms rise in dramatic fashion to about the same altitude as the high cloud near the hurricane's center, and are made up of individual cells that are typically less than 20 kilometers (12 miles) in diameter. This image shows a number of these cells, some fairly isolated, and others connected together. Their three-dimensional structure is clearly apparent in this stereo view. More information about MISR is available at: http://www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov MISR scientific data products are available through the Atmospheric Sciences Data Center at NASA Langley Research Center: http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov The Terra mission is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. #####
TRMM Rainmap Anomalies: El N …
Title TRMM Rainmap Anomalies: El Niño/La Niña
Abstract Rainmaps derived from nearly three years of TRMM operations.
Completed 2000-12-11
TRMM Rainmap Anomalies: El N …
Title TRMM Rainmap Anomalies: El Niño/La Niña
Abstract Rainmaps derived from nearly three years of TRMM operations.
Completed 2000-12-11
Global Large-scale Precipita …
Title Global Large-scale Precipitation during Hurricane Frances (WMS)
Abstract Water vapor is a small but significant constituent of the atmosphere, warming the planet due to the greenhouse effect and condensing to form clouds. As moisture-laden air rises, the relative humidity increases until it saturates the air, at which time precipitation occurs. If the uplift of air is due to large-scale atmospheric motion, then the precipitation is called large-scale, or dynamic. This animation shows the large-scale precipitation for the whole globe from September 1, 2004, through September 5, 2004, during the period of Hurricane Frances in the western Atlantic Ocean and Typhoon Songda in the western Pacific Ocean. Large-scale precipitation tends to be continuous and to come from decks of stratus clouds rather than from thunderstorms.
Completed 2005-07-28
Global Large-scale Precipita …
Title Global Large-scale Precipitation during Hurricane Frances (WMS)
Abstract Water vapor is a small but significant constituent of the atmosphere, warming the planet due to the greenhouse effect and condensing to form clouds. As moisture-laden air rises, the relative humidity increases until it saturates the air, at which time precipitation occurs. If the uplift of air is due to large-scale atmospheric motion, then the precipitation is called large-scale, or dynamic. This animation shows the large-scale precipitation for the whole globe from September 1, 2004, through September 5, 2004, during the period of Hurricane Frances in the western Atlantic Ocean and Typhoon Songda in the western Pacific Ocean. Large-scale precipitation tends to be continuous and to come from decks of stratus clouds rather than from thunderstorms.
Completed 2005-07-28
China Dust Storm seen by Ear …
Title China Dust Storm seen by Earth Probe/TOMS in April of 2001
Abstract A thick shroud of dust appears over China on April 6 and 7, 2001. The densest portion of the aerosol pollution travels east over China, Russia, Japan, the Pacific Ocean, Canada, and the United States.
Completed 2003-12-01
China Dust Storm seen by Ear …
Title China Dust Storm seen by Earth Probe/TOMS in April of 2001
Abstract A thick shroud of dust appears over China on April 6 and 7, 2001. The densest portion of the aerosol pollution travels east over China, Russia, Japan, the Pacific Ocean, Canada, and the United States.
Completed 2003-12-01
China Dust Storm seen by Ear …
Title China Dust Storm seen by Earth Probe/TOMS in April of 2001
Abstract A thick shroud of dust appears over China on April 6 and 7, 2001. The densest portion of the aerosol pollution travels east over China, Russia, Japan, the Pacific Ocean, Canada, and the United States.
Completed 2003-12-01
China Dust Storm seen by Ear …
Title China Dust Storm seen by Earth Probe/TOMS in April of 2001
Abstract A thick shroud of dust appears over China on April 6 and 7, 2001. The densest portion of the aerosol pollution travels east over China, Russia, Japan, the Pacific Ocean, Canada, and the United States.
Completed 2003-12-01
China Dust Storm seen by Ear …
Title China Dust Storm seen by Earth Probe/TOMS in April of 2001
Abstract A thick shroud of dust appears over China on April 6 and 7, 2001. The densest portion of the aerosol pollution travels east over China, Russia, Japan, the Pacific Ocean, Canada, and the United States.
Completed 2003-12-01
China Dust Storm seen by Ear …
Title China Dust Storm seen by Earth Probe/TOMS in April of 2001
Abstract A thick shroud of dust appears over China on April 6 and 7, 2001. The densest portion of the aerosol pollution travels east over China, Russia, Japan, the Pacific Ocean, Canada, and the United States.
Completed 2003-12-01
China Dust Storm seen by Ear …
Title China Dust Storm seen by Earth Probe/TOMS in April of 2001
Abstract A thick shroud of dust appears over China on April 6 and 7, 2001. The densest portion of the aerosol pollution travels east over China, Russia, Japan, the Pacific Ocean, Canada, and the United States.
Completed 2003-12-01
China Dust Storm seen by Ear …
Title China Dust Storm seen by Earth Probe/TOMS in April of 2001
Abstract A thick shroud of dust appears over China on April 6 and 7, 2001. The densest portion of the aerosol pollution travels east over China, Russia, Japan, the Pacific Ocean, Canada, and the United States.
Completed 2003-12-01
China Dust Storm seen by Ear …
Title China Dust Storm seen by Earth Probe/TOMS in April of 2001
Abstract A thick shroud of dust appears over China on April 6 and 7, 2001. The densest portion of the aerosol pollution travels east over China, Russia, Japan, the Pacific Ocean, Canada, and the United States.
Completed 2003-12-01
China Dust Storm seen by Ear …
Title China Dust Storm seen by Earth Probe/TOMS in April of 2001
Abstract A thick shroud of dust appears over China on April 6 and 7, 2001. The densest portion of the aerosol pollution travels east over China, Russia, Japan, the Pacific Ocean, Canada, and the United States.
Completed 2003-12-01
China Dust Storm seen by Ear …
Title China Dust Storm seen by Earth Probe/TOMS in April of 2001
Abstract A thick shroud of dust appears over China on April 6 and 7, 2001. The densest portion of the aerosol pollution travels east over China, Russia, Japan, the Pacific Ocean, Canada, and the United States.
Completed 2003-12-01
China Dust Storm seen by Ear …
Title China Dust Storm seen by Earth Probe/TOMS in April of 2001
Abstract A thick shroud of dust appears over China on April 6 and 7, 2001. The densest portion of the aerosol pollution travels east over China, Russia, Japan, the Pacific Ocean, Canada, and the United States.
Completed 2003-12-01
China Dust Storm seen by Ear …
Title China Dust Storm seen by Earth Probe/TOMS in April of 2001
Abstract A thick shroud of dust appears over China on April 6 and 7, 2001. The densest portion of the aerosol pollution travels east over China, Russia, Japan, the Pacific Ocean, Canada, and the United States.
Completed 2003-12-01
AMSR-E Anomalous Pacific Sea …
Title AMSR-E Anomalous Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Data Used to predict 2003 Hurricane Season
Abstract Researchers and forecasters often study sea surface temperatures to predict the upcoming year's tropical cyclone activity. This sequence tracks warmer-than-normal waters and colder-than-normal waters in the Pacific Ocean. In 2003, experts have predicted a 'normal to below normal' number of tropical cylones. Researchers say the Pacific may transition to the colder-than-normal La Niña phase. Fewer than normal hurricanes generally form when El Niño is present. Areas in red represent warmer than normal and areas in blue represent cooler than normal.
Completed 2003-05-20
Super Typhoon Chataan
Title Super Typhoon Chataan
Abstract Super Typhoon Chataan was a Category 4 hurricane on July 8, 2002.
Completed 2002-08-13
Global Cloud Cover during Hu …
Title Global Cloud Cover during Hurricane Frances (WMS)
Abstract Water vapor is a small but significant constituent of the atmosphere, warming the planet due to the greenhouse effect and condensing to form clouds which both warm and cool the Earth in different circumstances. Warm, moisture-laden air moving out from the tropics brings clouds and rainfall to the temperate zones. This animation shows the cloud cover for the whole globe from September 1, 2004, through September 5, 2004, during the period of Hurricane Frances in the western Atlantic Ocean and Typhoon Songda in the western Pacific Ocean. The cloud cover in any region significantly affects the energy balance since sunlight reflected from the clouds is not available to heat the surface. The motion of clouds in this animation clearly indicates the speed and direction of winds around the globe.
Completed 2005-07-25
Global Cloud Cover during Hu …
Title Global Cloud Cover during Hurricane Frances (WMS)
Abstract Water vapor is a small but significant constituent of the atmosphere, warming the planet due to the greenhouse effect and condensing to form clouds which both warm and cool the Earth in different circumstances. Warm, moisture-laden air moving out from the tropics brings clouds and rainfall to the temperate zones. This animation shows the cloud cover for the whole globe from September 1, 2004, through September 5, 2004, during the period of Hurricane Frances in the western Atlantic Ocean and Typhoon Songda in the western Pacific Ocean. The cloud cover in any region significantly affects the energy balance since sunlight reflected from the clouds is not available to heat the surface. The motion of clouds in this animation clearly indicates the speed and direction of winds around the globe.
Completed 2005-07-25
AMSR_E Pacific Sea Surface T …
Title AMSR_E Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Data Used to Forecast 2003 Hurricane Season
Abstract Researchers and forecasters often study sea surface temperatures for an activity predictions for 2003 in part to changing conditions in the Pacific Ocean, such as the demise of El Nino. This sequence traces the evolution of the warmer-than-normal waters associated with the weak El Nino that developed in the late fall of 2002. By January, the warm conditions began to dissipate. Fewer than normal hurricanes generally form when El Nino is present. Researchers say the Pacific may transition to the colder-than-normal La Nina phase. Areas in red represent warmer than normal and areas in blue represent cooler than normal.
Completed 2003-05-20
AMSR_E Pacific Sea Surface T …
Title AMSR_E Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Data Used to Forecast 2003 Hurricane Season
Abstract Researchers and forecasters often study sea surface temperatures for an activity predictions for 2003 in part to changing conditions in the Pacific Ocean, such as the demise of El Nino. This sequence traces the evolution of the warmer-than-normal waters associated with the weak El Nino that developed in the late fall of 2002. By January, the warm conditions began to dissipate. Fewer than normal hurricanes generally form when El Nino is present. Researchers say the Pacific may transition to the colder-than-normal La Nina phase. Areas in red represent warmer than normal and areas in blue represent cooler than normal.
Completed 2003-05-20
Current Tropical Sea Surface …
Title Current Tropical Sea Surface Temperatures
Abstract Current sea surface temperature (SST) and SST anomaly data.
Completed 2006-09-25
Current Tropical Sea Surface …
Title Current Tropical Sea Surface Temperatures
Abstract Current sea surface temperature (SST) and SST anomaly data.
Completed 2006-09-25
Current Tropical Sea Surface …
Title Current Tropical Sea Surface Temperatures
Abstract Current sea surface temperature (SST) and SST anomaly data.
Completed 2006-09-25
Global Rotation of SeaWiFS B …
Title Global Rotation of SeaWiFS Biosphere Decadal Average without Land
Abstract The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the Seastar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. This animation shows an average of 10 years worth of SeaWiFS data. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there tends to be a lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas which support life. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land.
Completed 2007-04-16
Pacific Ocean: May 1992 - Ma …
Title Pacific Ocean: May 1992 - May 1998
Abstract 1 degree by 1 degree spatial resolution
Completed 1999-01-21
El Niño-La Niña Sea Surface …
Title El Niño-La Niña Sea Surface Height Anomaly: January 1997 through November 1998
Completed 1998-11-23
El Niño-La Niña Sea Surface …
Title El Niño-La Niña Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly: January 1997 through December 1999
Completed 1999-12-21
Annual North America Surface …
Title Annual North America Surface Temperature Anomaly: 1950 through 1998
Abstract Global surface temperatures in 1998 set a new record for the period of instrumental measurements, report researchers at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies who analyze data collected from several thousand meteorological stations around the world. This visualization shows surface temperature anomalies from 1950 through November, 1998. The 1998 warmth was associated partly with a strong El Nino that warmed the air over the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean in the first half of the year and in turn affected weather around the world. Red and yellow colors indicate warmer than normal conditions and blue colors indicates cooler than normal conditions.
Completed 1998-11-01
El Niño Sea Surface Height A …
Title El Niño Sea Surface Height Anomaly: January 1997 through October 1998
Completed 1998-10-26
SeaWiFS: El Nino on a Globe …
Title SeaWiFS: El Nino on a Globe (2nd version)
Abstract By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. Until now, scientists have only had a continuous record of photosynthesis on land. But following three years of continual data collected by the SeaWiFS instrument, NASA has gathered the first record of photosynthetic productivity in the oceans. By taking three years of continuous data as a whole, experts have been able to map trends and anomalies in the global circulation of carbon to a degree of detail than has never been done before. It is a baseline measurement to by which all future measurements will be compared.
Completed 2001-03-25
Pacific Flyover
Title Pacific Flyover
Abstract One of a series of global flyovers done for the Learning Channel.
Completed 1998-05-16
El Niño-La Niña Sea Surface …
Title El Niño-La Niña Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly: January 1997 through November 1998
Completed 1998-11-23
Clouds over the Pacific Ocea …
Title Clouds over the Pacific Ocean and Latin America from GOES-11: August 2, 2000 (Version Two)
Abstract This animation is one of a series showing the first data from GOES-11. The data shown was taken at one-minute intervals.
Completed 2000-08-09
El Niño-La Niña Sea Surface …
Title El Niño-La Niña Sea Surface Height Anomaly: January 1997 through December 1999
Completed 1999-12-21
Global Atmospheric Water Vap …
Title Global Atmospheric Water Vapor during Hurricane Frances (WMS)
Abstract Water vapor is a small but significant constituent of the atmosphere, warming the planet due to the greenhouse effect and condensing to form clouds which both warm and cool the Earth in different circumstances. Warm, moisture-laden air moving out from the tropics brings rainfall to the temperate zones. This animation shows the atmospheric water vapor for the whole globe from September 1, 2004, through September 5, 2004, during the period of Hurricane Frances in the western Atlantic Ocean and Typhoon Songda in the western Pacific Ocean. The band of water vapor over the tropics is the intertropical convergence zone, where converging trade winds and high temperatures force large amounts of water high into the atmosphere. Both Hurricane Frances and Typhoon Songda exhibit significant spiral bands of high water vapor.
Completed 2005-07-25
Global Atmospheric Water Vap …
Title Global Atmospheric Water Vapor during Hurricane Frances (WMS)
Abstract Water vapor is a small but significant constituent of the atmosphere, warming the planet due to the greenhouse effect and condensing to form clouds which both warm and cool the Earth in different circumstances. Warm, moisture-laden air moving out from the tropics brings rainfall to the temperate zones. This animation shows the atmospheric water vapor for the whole globe from September 1, 2004, through September 5, 2004, during the period of Hurricane Frances in the western Atlantic Ocean and Typhoon Songda in the western Pacific Ocean. The band of water vapor over the tropics is the intertropical convergence zone, where converging trade winds and high temperatures force large amounts of water high into the atmosphere. Both Hurricane Frances and Typhoon Songda exhibit significant spiral bands of high water vapor.
Completed 2005-07-25
El Niño Sea Surface Temperat …
Title El Niño Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly: January 1997 through July 1998
Completed 1998-07-01
Global Convective Precipitat …
Title Global Convective Precipitation during Hurricane Frances (WMS)
Abstract Water vapor is a small but significant constituent of the atmosphere, warming the planet due to the greenhouse effect and condensing to form clouds. As moisture-laden air rises, the relative humidity increases until it saturates the air, at which time precipitation occurs. If the uplift of air is due to strong updrafts and unstable air systems, as in thunderstorms, then the precipitation is called convective. This animation shows the convective precipitation for the whole globe from September 1, 2004, through September 5, 2004, during the period of Hurricane Frances in the western Atlantic Ocean and Typhoon Songda in the western Pacific Ocean. Convective precipitation is more intense but less long-lasting than large-scale precipitation.
Completed 2005-07-28
Global Convective Precipitat …
Title Global Convective Precipitation during Hurricane Frances (WMS)
Abstract Water vapor is a small but significant constituent of the atmosphere, warming the planet due to the greenhouse effect and condensing to form clouds. As moisture-laden air rises, the relative humidity increases until it saturates the air, at which time precipitation occurs. If the uplift of air is due to strong updrafts and unstable air systems, as in thunderstorms, then the precipitation is called convective. This animation shows the convective precipitation for the whole globe from September 1, 2004, through September 5, 2004, during the period of Hurricane Frances in the western Atlantic Ocean and Typhoon Songda in the western Pacific Ocean. Convective precipitation is more intense but less long-lasting than large-scale precipitation.
Completed 2005-07-28
Aerosols from 2003 Southern …
Title Aerosols from 2003 Southern California Fires (WMS)
Abstract A devastating series of fires occurred in Southern California during October 2003. The effects of these fires were detectable from space. The Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instrument measures aerosol particles (microscopic airborne dust and smoke). TOMS was able to detect aerosols from these fires moving West over the Pacific Ocean and East over the continental United States.
Completed 2005-03-11
Aerosols from 2003 Southern …
Title Aerosols from 2003 Southern California Fires (WMS)
Abstract A devastating series of fires occurred in Southern California during October 2003. The effects of these fires were detectable from space. The Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instrument measures aerosol particles (microscopic airborne dust and smoke). TOMS was able to detect aerosols from these fires moving West over the Pacific Ocean and East over the continental United States.
Completed 2005-03-11
El Niño Zoom to Sea Surface …
Title El Niño Zoom to Sea Surface Temperature and Height Anomaly on a Globe: Jan. 1997 through Dec. 1997
Completed 1997-12-18
El Niño Equatorial Fly-by Sh …
Title El Niño Equatorial Fly-by Showing Sea Surface Temp, Height Anomaly on a Globe: Jan through Dec 1997
Completed 1997-12-18
Sea Surface Height and Tempe …
Title Sea Surface Height and Temperature Anomalies on a Globe: Rotating to the Pacific Ocean
Abstract The 1997-98 El Niño was truly a global event. The sequence shows a superposition of sea surface temperature anomalies on anomalies of the sea surface elevation.
Completed 1998-11-23
El Niño Zoom to Cross-sectio …
Title El Niño Zoom to Cross-section of Temperature and Height Anomalies: September 1997 through July 1998
Completed 1998-07-01
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