Clouds over Australia
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- Visualizations by:
- Neema Mostafavi
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This animation is a beauty shot of cloud model output over North America. The clouds are derived from the Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5 (GEOS-5). GEOS-5 is a system of models integrated using the Earth System Modeling Framework and used to help refine atmospheric weather models.
The lighting of this scene is completely artistic and not scientifically accurate. If accurate lighting were used the diurnal effect would pulse across the globe approximately every 90 frames (3 seconds when played at 30 fps). The slow strobing would have been undesireable for the intended purpose of this animation, which is to highlight the cloud model output.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Neema Mostafavi (USRA) [Lead]
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Ernie Wright (USRA)
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Scientist
- William Putman (NASA/GSFC)
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Producer
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Missions
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Terra and Aqua BMNG (Blue Marble: Next Generation)
ID: 508Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
This dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
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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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Related Pages
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ID: 11083 Produced Video
Under The Influence
Read moreSheets of crisp, bright white clouds blanket our planet. That's true even in particularly dry places like the island continent of Australia. There, cloud-filled skies are mainly observed during the rainy winter season, except in the north, where the majority of storms take place in summer. Australia sits far south of the equator and under a strong, migrating zone of high-pressure called the subtropical ridge. These conditions influence its climate and expose the continent to a variety of weather extremes: drought, floods, heat waves, severe storms and tropical cyclones. At the same time, Australia gets more than 3,000 hours of sunshine each year, making it one of the sunniest places in the world. And, its clouds look incredibly cool from space. Using an advanced supercomputer climate model called GEOS-5, NASA scientists recreated 19 days of changing cloud cover over Australia. Watch the visualization to explore the movement of different systems that formed across the continent. ||
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