2009 El Niño & 2010 La Niña (3D-Stereoscopic Version)

  • Released Tuesday, October 12, 2010
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Sea Surface Height Anomalies (SSHA) are differences above and below normally observed sea surface heights. Large sustained above average areas (shown in orange and red) off the western coast of South America are an indicator of an El Niño event. In contrast, large sustained below average areas (shown in blue and violet) off the western South American coast are indicators of a La Niña event. This visualization shows the formation of an El Niño event towards the end of 2009 followed by a 2010 La Niña event.

Example anaglyph visualization of the 2009 El Niño and 2010 La Niña events. This animation was created in post using the below raw elements, and can be viewed using red/cyan glasses.

3D stereographic visualization of the 2009 El Niño and 2010 La Niña events with dates.

3D stereographic visualization of the 2009 El Niño and 2010 La Niña events without dates.

Raw date images. (To be used with the raw left and right eye views.)

Raw date images. (To be used with the raw left and right eye views.)

Raw images for the left eye view.

Raw images for the right eye view.

Credits

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Generated using AVISO Products

This page was originally published on Tuesday, October 12, 2010.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT.

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Datasets used in this visualization

  • AVISO: NRT-MSLA (AVISO: Near Real Time - Merged Sea Level Anomalies)

    ID: 699
    Type: Data Compilation

    Combined product from data taken by Envisat, Jason-1, and Jason-2

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