Global Surface- and Upper-Level Winds
This entry compiles a series of animations created for the use of WGBH in an educational webside. The animations visualize data from the MERRA reanalysis product, showing winds at both the 850 mb and 250 mb levels. The upper level is rainbow-colored, the lower level is white. Both color and opacity of each level are being driven by windspeed.
850 mb and 250 mb levels
850 mb level
250 mb level
Upper- and Lower-Level Winds, Hyperwall Version
Colorbar
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
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Visualizers
- Trent L. Schindler (USRA)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
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Technical support
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, August 29, 2017.
This page was last updated on Sunday, January 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM EST.
Datasets used
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Blue Marble Land Cover [Terra and Aqua: MODIS]
ID: 510Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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MERRA
ID: 684
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Used as a Source In
- ID: 4742
Visualization