North America Snow Cover 2009-2012
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- Visualizations by:
- Helen-Nicole Kostis
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This entry features visualization material of daily snow cover over North America from July 1, 2009 - March 11, 2012 and still images of snow cover in the Western region of United States.
Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Helen-Nicole Kostis (USRA) [Lead]
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Visualizer
- Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientists
- Dorothy Hall (NASA/GSFC)
- Jeffrey A. Miller (Wyle Information Systems)
- Thorsten Markus (NASA/GSFC)
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Producer
- Rani Gran (NASA/GSFC)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Datasets used in this visualization
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Terra Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG (MOD10C1)
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Terra Bathymetry
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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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Related Pages
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ID: 10945 Produced Video
Winter, Interrupted
Read moreIn 2010 and 2011, North America had two snowy winters, punctuated by monster storms that shut down cities from Denver to Washington DC. But this year saw fewer big storms, and by early March areas of the U.S. usually still dressed in white were mostly bare due to below average snowfall and above average temperatures that made this the fourth warmest winter on record. The heavy snows in 2010 were partly caused by El Niño, which drew moisture from the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico that froze above the lower 48 states upon contact with sinking cold air from the Arctic. However, La Niña conditions in 2012 resulted in the Pacific Ocean's moist air being pushed to the far North, where storms dumped near-record snowfall in Alaska. Watch the visualization below, based on data collected by NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites, to see how snow cover has varied over North America from July 2009 to March 2012. ||
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