Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle
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.
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- aerosols
- Atmosphere
- Atmospheric Chemistry/Nitrogen Compounds
- Atmospheric Chemistry/Oxygen Compounds
- Atmospheric Radiation
- Atmospheric science
- Atmospheric Temperature
- Atmospheric Water Vapor
- Carbon Dioxide
- Chlorofluorocarbons
- Climate Change
- Cloud Cover
- Clouds
- Earth Science
- Edited Feature
- Energy
- GOES
- HDTV
- Ice
- Methane
- Narrated
- Nitrous Oxide
- ozone
- Solar Activity
- solar irradiance
- Sun-earth Interactions
- Temperature
- Temperature Anomalies
- Temperature Trend
- Urban
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
- Ryan Boller (NASA/GSFC)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Marte Newcombe (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Helen-Nicole Kostis (UMBC)
- Eric Sokolowsky (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Randall Jones (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Chris Meaney (HTSI)
- Stuart A. Snodgrass (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Megan Willy (IRC/UMBC)
- Adam Martin (UMBC)
- Susan Twardy (HTSI)
- John Waldrop (NASA)
- Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC)
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Video editor
- Jennifer A. Shoemaker (UMBC)
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Narrator
- Jefferson Beck (UMBC)
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Producer
- Jennifer A. Shoemaker (UMBC)
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Scientist
- Ralph Kahn (NASA/GSFC)
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Videographers
- Jennifer A. Shoemaker (UMBC)
- Silvia Stoyanova (UMBC)
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Writer
- Jennifer A. Shoemaker (UMBC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, February 22, 2010.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT.
Series
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[Aqua: AIRS]
ID: 3For more information on the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, click http://www-airs.jpl.nasa.gov/
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[Aqua: AMSR-E]
ID: 4For more information, please click http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/AMSR/
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[Aqua: MODIS]
ID: 5 -
[DMSP: SSM/I]
ID: 11Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Special Sensor Microwave Imager
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[GOES]
ID: 22 -
[NOAA: AVHRR]
ID: 74 -
[SOHO]
ID: 93SOHO 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).
This dataset can be found at: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov
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[Terra: MODIS]
ID: 116 -
[Aura: OMI]
ID: 147 -
Daily L3 6.25 km 89 GHz Brightness Temperature (Tb) [Aqua: AMSR-E]
ID: 236 -
Sea Surface Temperature [Aqua: AMSR-E]
ID: 238 -
Blue Marble Land Cover [Terra and Aqua: MODIS]
ID: 510Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)) [Terra and Aqua: MODIS]
ID: 633 -
GEOS-5 Cubed-Sphere (GEOS-5 Atmospheric Model on the Cubed-Sphere)
ID: 663The 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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