Wind Anomalies During El Niño/La Niña Event of 1997-1998 (WMS)
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- Visualizations by:
- Jeff de La Beaujardiere
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The El Niño/La Niña event in 1997-1999 was particularly intense, but was also very well observed by satellites and buoys. Deviations from normal winds speeds and directions were computed using data from the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSMI) on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite.
This animation shows El Niño and La Niña from
1997 through 1998. Each frame is a ten-day average of wind
anomalies—that is, of differences from normal wind velocities.
The area shown in the animation is the Pacific ocean
from -21 to +21 latitude and +120 to +290 East
longitude.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Jeff de La Beaujardiere (NASA) [Lead]
Missions
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Zonal Pseudostress
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TRMM and DMSP 3-hour Rainmap (3B4XRT)
ID: 526This dataset can be found at: http://cics.umd.edu/~msapiano/PEHRPP/3b42rt.html
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