Hurricane Tracks from 2017 with Precipitation and Cloud Data
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- Visualizations by:
- Greg Shirah
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These visualizations show the tracks of Atlantic hurricanes during 2017. Data from the Global Precipitation Mission called IMERG is used to show rainfall and data from NOAA's GOES East shows clouds. Storm position and wind speed data from UNISYS are used to show the track lines. The numbers 1 through 5 as well as "T" are displayed when storms change categories. The "T" stands for tropical storm.
There are 2 visualizations at various resolutions:
- a wide Atlantic view that shows all of the hurricane tracks
- a view that follows and zooms in only on Hurricane Harvey
These visualizaitons were created to support NASA talks given at the National Air and Space Musuem (NASM) in October 2017. The wide Atlantic view was updated at the end of hurricane season to include all Atlantic hurricanes in 2017 for display at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference.
These visualizations only go through October 2017 because there were no Atlantic hurricanes in November or December 2017.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
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Visualizers
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
- Kel Elkins (USRA)
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Writer
- Patrick Lynch (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientist
- Marshall Shepherd (None)
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Producer
- Matthew Radcliff (KBRwyle)
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Technical support
- Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
IMERG
CPC (Climate Prediction Center) Cloud Composite
Global cloud cover from multiple satellites
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