Earth Day 2020: Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) from August 2011 through July 2014

  • Released Wednesday, April 15, 2020
  • Updated Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 10:24AM
  • ID: 4814

This visualization shows sea surface salinity (SSS) data of the oceans from August 2011 through July 2014. The data set used is from the Aquarius satellite. Aquarius is a collaboration between NASA and the Space Agency of Argentina to measure global sea surface salinity (the amount of dissolved salts in water). Measuring salinity can help us better understand the water cycle and can also lead to improved climate models.

This visualization was created in part to support Earth Day 2020 media releases.


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NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio


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Datasets used in this visualization

MUR SST (A.K.A. Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution (MUR) Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Analysis)
AnalysisJPL PO DAAC2016-2020

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