Hourly Evaporation from the GEOS-5 Model

  • Released Thursday, October 8, 2009
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This animation of the global hourly evaporation shows how heating from the sun during the day causes increased evaporation over land areas. Two versions of this animation are provided: one with a day/night clock inset and one without. The animation was 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 global evaporation with a clock inset showing the day/night cycle.

This animation shows global evaporation.

A still image showing evaporation over the Atlantic Ocean and the surrounding continents during the daylight hours.

A still image showing evaporation over the Atlantic Ocean and the surrounding continents during the daylight hours.

A day/night clock matched to the evaporation animation above showing the approximate time in the center of view.

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).

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.

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