Earth ID: 10574

Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle

Released on February 22, 2010

The decade from 2000 to 2009 was the warmest in the modern record. "Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle" illustrates how NASA satellites enable us to study possible causes of climate change. The video explains what role fluctuations in the solar cycle, changes in snow and cloud cover, and rising levels of heat-trapping gases may play in contributing to climate change.

For complete transcript, click here.

For More Information

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming-world.html

Credits

Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Animator
Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Animator
Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC): Animator
Ryan Boller (NASA/GSFC): Animator
Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Animator
Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Animator
Marte Newcombe (GST): Animator
Helen-Nicole Kostis (UMBC): Animator
Eric Sokolowsky (GST): Animator
Randall Jones (GST): Animator
Chris Meaney (HTSI): Animator
Stuart A. Snodgrass (GST): Animator
Megan Willy (IRC/UMBC): Animator
Adam Martin (UMBC): Animator
Susan Twardy (HTSI): Animator
John Waldrop (NASA): Animator
Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC): Animator
Jennifer A. Shoemaker (UMBC): Video Editor
Jefferson Beck (UMBC): Narrator
Jennifer A. Shoemaker (UMBC): Producer
Ralph Kahn (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Jennifer A. Shoemaker (UMBC): Videographer
Silvia Stoyanova (UMBC): Videographer
Jennifer A. Shoemaker (UMBC): Writer

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Missions:
Aura
SOHO
Terra

Data Used:

Aqua/AIRS

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Aqua/AMSR-E

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Aqua/MODIS

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DMSP/SSM/I

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Special Sensor Microwave Imager

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GOES

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NOAA/AVHRR

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SOHO

NASA and ESA

SOHO monitors the Sun with a variety of instruments.

Among the SOHO instruments is the Michelson Doppler Interferometer (MDI) and the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT).

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov

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Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Blue Marble Land Cover

Credit:
The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

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Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) also referred to as: NDVI

NASA

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GEOS-5 Atmospheric Model on the Cubed-Sphere also referred to as: GEOS-5 Cubed-Sphere

Model - NASA GMAO

The model is the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 30-days. GEOS-5 is described here http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5/ and the cubed-sphere work is described here http://sivo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cubedsphere_overview.html.

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