Earth ID: 2820

Recipe of a Hurricane (Part 2) — Clouds and Isosurfaces (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 is a visualization of Hurricane Erin on September 10, 2001. This is the main section of the visualization that shows the GOES and TRMM/VIRS based cloud tops (extruded), the TRMM/PR based rain isosurface, and the CAMEX-4/dropsonde-based heat isosurface. This visualization was match-frame rendered to two other visualizations (winds and isosurfaces) and was intended to be shown edited together.

Hurricane Erin on 9-10-01. Green is the TRMM-PR rain isosurface. The semi-transparent clouds are derived from VIRS-IR and GOES-IR. The background is MODIS-bluemarble.

Erin on 9-10-01. Red is the CAMEX-Dropson heat isosurface. Green is the TRMM-PR rain isosurface. The semi-transparent cloud layer is derived from VIRS-IR and GOES-IR. The background is MODIS-bluemarble

Hurricane Erin on 9-10-01. The cloud layer is derived from VIRS-IR and GOES-IR. The background is MODIS-bluemarble.

Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Animator
Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC): Animator
Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Animator
Marte Newcombe (GST): Animator
Jeff Halverson (JCET UMBC): Scientist

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, and Hal Pierce (SSAI), who developed the original treatment. The Blue Marble Next Generation data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC) and NASA's Earth Observatory.

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Missions:
Terra
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission - TRMM

Data Used:

GOES/IR4

2001/09/10-2001/09/15

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TRMM/PR

2001/09/10-2001/09/15

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TRMM/VIRS

2001/09/10-2001/09/15

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Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Blue Marble: Next Generation also referred to as: BMNG

1/1/2004 - 12/31/2004

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

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

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CAMEX-4 Dropsonde-based Heat

2001/09/10-2001/09/15

http://camex.msfc.nasa.gov/

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This item is part of this series:
Hurricane Live shots

Goddard TV Tape:
G2003-051

Keywords:
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