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The 1997-98 El Niño
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El Niño, a periodic warming of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, is among Earth's most powerful phenomena. Satellite, ship, and buoy observations show the 1997-98 event as the strongest on record. Visualizing how sea-surface height, sea-surface temperature, and sea-surface winds differ from normal conditions reveals the event's magnitude.
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Four animations of data sets in the Pacific from January 1997 through July 1998, showing the difference of El Nino conditions from normal. The data sets are sea surface height anomaly, sea surface temperature anomaly, and sea surface wind anomaly.
Duration: 1.8 minutes
Available formats:
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| Animation Number: | 552 |
| Animators: | Greg Shirah (Lead) |
| | William Wynn |
| Studio: | SVS |
| Completed: | 1999-01-21 |
| Scientists: | Antonio Busalacchi (NASA/GSFC) |
| | Eric Hackert (NASA/GSFC) |
| Instruments: | DMSP/SSMI
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| | NOAA-14/AVHRR |
| | TOPEX/Poseidon |
| Data sets: | Sea Surface Height Anomaly
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| | Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly |
| | Sea Surface Wind Anomaly |
| Data Collected: | 1997/01/01-1998/07/31 |
| Series: | Images of Earth and Space |
| Video: | SVS1999-0001 * |
Keywords:
DLESE
>> Physical oceanography
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Please give credit for this item to
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio |
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