NCCS Hyperwall Show: GEOS-5 Modeled Clouds at 5-km Resolution (Flat Map)

  • Released Friday, June 18, 2010
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This visualization shows clouds from a simulation using the Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Verison 5 (GEOS5). The global atmospheric simulation ran at a resolution of 5-km per grid cell and covered a period from Feb 2, 2010 through Feb 22, 2010. The results of the simulation were written out at 30 minute intervals. This is a high-resolution non-hydrostatic global model.

This visualization was created for display on the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) hyperwall. This is a set of tiled high definition displays consisting of 5 displays across by 3 displays down. The full resolution of all combined displays is 6840 pixels accross by 2304 pixels down. This movie was rendered at this high resolution, then diced up into images to be displayed on each screen.

A similar, lower resolution visualization is available in entry #3724. The lower resolution version is for comparison to current operational model resolution output. When displaying these visualizations on the hyperwall, we sometimes show them in a checkerboard pattern with alternating 5-km and quarter-degree tiles for easy comparison. We chose to stretch the image to fit the hyperwall aspect rather than cropping or adding black bars.

Full image of GEOS-5 Modeled Clouds

Cropped version of GEOS-5 modeled clouds showing most of North America. Two major 2010 East coast snow storms can be seen in this animation.

The large animation above is diced-up into smaller pieces that can be played on the hyperwall. Each piece is named according to a standard spreadsheet convention with a1 at the upper left and e3 at the lower right. This image illustrates this naming convention used in the diced-up frame sets below.

The large animation above is diced-up into smaller pieces that can be played on the hyperwall. Each piece is named according to a standard spreadsheet convention with a1 at the upper left and e3 at the lower right. This image illustrates this naming convention used in the diced-up frame sets below.

Display a1 of GEOS-5 modeled clouds

Display a2 of GEOS-5 modeled clouds

Display a3 of GEOS-5 modeled clouds

Display b1 of GEOS-5 modeled clouds

Display b2 of GEOS-5 modeled clouds

Display b3 of GEOS-5 modeled clouds

Display c1 of GEOS-5 modeled clouds

Display c2 of GEOS-5 modeled clouds

Display c3 of GEOS-5 modeled clouds

Display d1 of GEOS-5 modeled clouds

Display d2 of GEOS-5 modeled clouds

Display d3 of GEOS-5 modeled clouds

Display e1 of GEOS-5 modeled clouds

Dsiplay e2 of GEOS-5 modeled clouds

Display e3 of GEOS-5 modeled clouds

This is an alternate version of the movie with a different background.

Credits

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Friday, June 18, 2010.
This page was last updated on Friday, August 2, 2024 at 3:47 PM EDT.

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