Hourly Atmospheric Water Vapor from the GEOS-5 Model
These three animations portray the hourly flow of atmospheric water vapor around the world. The animations were created using data from the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 30-days. For more information on the GEOS-5, see http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5 . For more information on the cubed-sphere work, see http://sivo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cubedsphere_overview.html.
This animation shows the flows of atmospheric water vapor over Asia.
This animation shows the flows of atmospheric water vapor over the Americas.
This animation shows the flows of atmospheric water vapor over the northern Pacific Ocean and North America.
A still image of water vapor over the Americas.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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Visualizer
- Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Producer
- Michelle Williams (UMBC)
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Scientists
- Matthew Rodell (NASA/GSFC)
- William Putman (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, October 8, 2009.
This page was last updated on Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 10:01 PM EST.
Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
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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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