Earth  ID: 2818

Recipe of a Hurricane (Part 1) - Initial Tropical Disturbance (Match Rendered)

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Released on September 30, 2003
This visualization was created in support of the 'Recipe for a Hurricane' live shot campaign. This visualization was match-frame rendered to another visualization showing sea surface temperature.
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This visualization shows GOES cloud imagery. Tropical disturbances can be seen coming off the west coast of Africa. Some of these distrubances become hurricanes.
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9-6-01 GOES data showing disturbances off the coast of Africa.
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9-6-01 GOES data showing more disturbances off the coast of Africa.
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9-7-01 GOES data showing disturbances off the coast of Africa.
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Video slate image reads "Initial Tropical Disturbance (Match Rendered)".

Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Animator
Jeff Halverson (JCET UMBC): Scientist
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Data Used:
GOES
2001/09/02-2001/09/15
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This item is part of this series:
Hurricane Live shots

Goddard TV Tape:
G2003-051

Keywords:
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Clouds
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Atmospheric Phenomena >> Hurricanes
SVS >> GOES
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