Earth ID: 2626

El Niño 'Golfball' for National Geographic's Altas of the Oceans

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Released on October 16, 2002

This image was developed for use on the cover of the National Geographic ATLAS OF THE OCEANS. Sea surface temperature anomalies are colors, with red being warmer than normal and blue being colder than normal, and sea surface height anomalies are exaggerated heights.

Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Antonio Busalacchi (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Data Used:

NOAA-14/AVHRR/NCEP Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly

1997/11

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TOPEX/Poseidon/Sea Surface Height Anomaly

1997/11

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This item is part of this series:
El Niño and La Niña

Keywords:
SVS >> Anomaly
SVS >> El Nino
SVS >> National Geographic
DLESE >> Physical oceanography
SVS >> Sea Surface Height
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Oceans >> Ocean Temperature >> Sea Surface Temperature
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