MERRA: A Flood and Drought Comparison (Updated Version)
The MERRA time period covers the modern era of remotely sensed data, from 1979 through the present. The special focus of the atmospheric assimilation is the hydrological cycle.
The time period covered by this visualization is the months of May, June, and July of 1988 and 1993, two years with contrasting extreme weather events during the summer: a drought through the midwesterd states of the US in 1988, and heavy rains and flooding through the same region in 1993.
GWETTOP 1988
GWETTOP 1993
Moisture Flux 1988
Moisture Flux 1993
Precipitation Total 1988
Precipitation Total 1993
Winds 1988
Winds 1993
Composite frames: Moisture flux, temperature anomaly, height anomaly, precipitation anomaly
This is a movie version of a Hyperwall show.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Trent L. Schindler (USRA)
Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, June 10, 2011.
This page was last updated on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 12:01 AM EST.
Datasets used in this visualization
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MERRA
ID: 684
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