Earth ID: 3129

Aqua/AIRS Water Vapor near Southern California #2

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Released on March 10, 2005

This visualization shows 3D volumetric water vapor data from the Aqua/Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument. As the camera moved down and around the data set, the low data values are faded out revealing only the highest concentrations of water vapor data.

This version (#2) ends with a slightly lower threshold than the original version - showing more of the highest water vapor concentrations.

The color and opacity at each 3D voxel are driven by the water vapor data. The data set was obtained by Aqua on January 1, 2003. Only data from the sea level to about 10km are shown.

This visualization was created to support a JPL press release about how assimilated AIRS data is improving global atmospheric simulation model forecasts by about 6 hours (from about 5 days to about 5 days and 6 hours).

Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Sharon Okonek (NASA/JPL CalTech): Scientist
Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen (NASA/JPL CalTech): Scientist
Tom Pagano (NASA/JPL CalTech): Scientist
Edward Olsen (NASA/JPL CalTech): Scientist

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Data Used:

Aqua/AIRS/Level 2 Water Vapor (H2OMMRStd)

2003/01/01

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Dates of Data Used:
2003/01/01

Goddard TV Tape:
G2008-042HD -- HD Fires, Ozone, and Air Quality RT

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Volume
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Atmospheric Water Vapor >> Water Vapor
SVS >> Hyperwall
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0