La Niña 2007 Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies

  • Released Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:55PM
  • ID: 3488

This visualization shows the 2007 La Niña event in the Pacific Ocean. Sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies from 2007 are shown based on a 3-day moving average using Aqua/AMSR-E SST data.

Sea surface temperature anomalies for the 2007 La Niña

The cooler waters of a La Niña inhibit cloud growth overhead as seen in this Terra/MODIS mosaic from Nov. 8, 2007.

The cooler waters of a La Niña inhibit cloud growth overhead as seen in this Terra/MODIS mosaic from Nov. 8, 2007.

Sea surface temperature anomaly color bar in degrees Celsius: -5 (dark blue) to 0 (green), to +5 (dark red)

Sea surface temperature anomaly color bar in degrees Celsius: -5 (dark blue) to 0 (green), to +5 (dark red)

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Datasets used in this visualization

Note: While we identify the data sets used in these visualizations, we do not store any further details, nor the data sets themselves on our site.