SST Anomalies + Wind Anomalies
Sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies and sea surface wind anomalies show the development of the 2002/2003 El Niño based on data from NASA's Aqua and QuikSCAT spacecraft. The wind data has been processed using the Variational Analysis Method (VAM).
SST Anomalies and SS Wind Anomalies in the Pacific.
SST Anomalies and SS Wind Anomalies from 21 Jan 2003 (with gray arrows)
SST Anomalies and SS Wind Anomalies from 21 Jan 2003 (with black arrows)
Video slate image reads "SST + Wind Anomalies
Data: Aqua/AMSR-E, QuikSCAT
Dates (8/1/02 - 1/21/03)".
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Jesse Allen (Raytheon)
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Scientist
- David Adamec (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, February 3, 2003.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.
Missions
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[Aqua: AMSR-E]
ID: 4For more information, please click http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/AMSR/
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[QuikSCAT: SeaWinds]
ID: 85SeaWinds is a scanning dual pencil-beam Ku-band scatterometer.
This dataset can be found at: http://www.mers.byu.edu/Seawinds.html
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