This visualization shows wind vectors for Hurricane Erin on September 10, 2001. Wind direction and speed are represented by the direction and speed of moving arrows, respectively. This visualization represents a single measurement taken by the SeaWinds instrument on the QuikSCAT satellite, taken at 14:27:00 UTC on September 10, 2001. The WMS version of this visualization which is available through the SVS Image Server presents this visualization with a different timestamp for each frame in order to more easily present the images as a moving series of images. It should be noted that each frame really has a time stamp of 2001-09-10 14:27:00 UTC. ||

This visualization shows the cold water trails left first by Hurricanes Fabian and then by Hurricane Isabel in the Atlantic Ocean from August 27, 2003 through September 23, 2003. The colors on the ocean represent the sea surface temperatures, and satellite images of the hurricane clouds are laid over the temperatures to clearly show the hurricane positions. Orange and red depict regions that are 82 degrees F and higher, where the ocean is warm enough for hurricanes to form. Hurricane winds are sustained by the heat energy of the ocean, so the ocean is cooled as the hurricane passes and the energy is extracted to power the winds. A hurricane can experience a dramatic reduction in wind speed when it crosses the cold track of a previous hurricane. However, in this case, the cold water track from Fabian warmed up before Isabel crossed it, so Isabel's winds did not decrease. The sea surface temperatures were measured by the AMSR-E instrument on the Aqua satellite, while the cloud images were taken by the Imager on the GOES-12 satellite. ||

NASA's TRMM spacecraft is used by meteorologists to understand Hurricane Ivan. TRMM snapped this view of Hurricane Ivan on September 15, 2004, just before the storm strikes land. The cloud cover is taken by TRMM's Visible and Infrared Scanner (VIRS). The rain structure is taken by TRMM's Tropical Microwave Imager (TMI). It looks underneath of the storm's clouds to reveal the underlying rain structure. Blue represents areas with at least 0.25 inches of rain per hour. Green shows at least 0.5 inches of rain per hour. Yellow is at least 1.0 inches of rain and red is at least 2.0 inches of rain per hour. ||

During the hurricane season of 2004, an unprecedented four hurricanes hit Florida. This animation shows the accumulated rainfall produced by three of those hurricanes during the month of September. The animation also shows the rainfall from the typhoons in the Pacific Ocean during the same period. ||

This visualization shows the cold water trail left by Hurricane Katrina. The data is from August 23 through 30, 2005. The colors on the ocean represent the sea surface temperatures, and satellite images of the hurricane clouds are laid over the temperatures to clearly show the hurricane positions. Orange and red depict regions that are 82 degrees F and higher, where the ocean is warm enough for hurricanes to form. Hurricane winds are sustained by the heat energy of the ocean, so the ocean is cooled as the hurricane passes and the energy is extracted to power the winds. The sea surface temperatures are 3-day moving averages based on the AMSR-E instrument on the Aqua satellite, while the cloud images were taken by the Imager on the GOES-12 satellite. ||

Many records were broken during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season including the most hurricanes ever, the most category 5 hurricanes, and the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic as measured by atmospheric pressure. This visualization shows all 27 named storms that formed in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season and examines some of the conditions that made hurricane formation so favorable.The animation begins by showing the regions of warm water that are favorable for storm development advancing northward through the peak of hurricane season and then receding as the waters cool. The thermal energy in these warm waters powers the hurricanes. Strong shearing winds in the troposphere can disrupt developing young storms, but measurements indicate that there was very little shearing wind activity in 2005 to impede storm formation.Sea surface temperatures, clouds, storm tracks, and hurricane category labels are shown as the hurricane season progresses.This visualization shows some of the actual data that NASA and NOAA satellites measured in 2005 — data used to predict the paths and intensities of hurricanes. Satellite data play a vital role in helping us understand the land, ocean, and atmosphere systems that have such dramatic effects on our lives.NOTE: This animation shows the named storms from the 2005 hurricane season. During a re-analysis of 2005, NOAA's Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane Center determined that a short-lived subtropcial storm developed near the Azores Islands in late September, increasing the 2005 tropical storm count from 27 to 28. This storm was not named and is not shown in this animation.'27 Storms: Arlene to Zeta' played in the SIGGRAPH 2007 Computer Animation Festival in August 2007. It was also a finalist in the 2006 NSF Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. ||

This data visualization follows Hurricane Matthew throughout its destructive run in the Caribbean and Southeast U.S. coast. By utilizing different data sets from NOAA's GOES satellite, NASA/JAXA's GPM, MERRA-2 model runs, IMERG, Goddard's soil moisture product, and sea surface temperatures, scientists are able to put together a clearer picture of how this hurricane quickly intensified and eventually weakened. || matthew_narrated_v106.5800_print.jpg (1024x576) [189.6 KB] || matthew_narrated_v106.5800_searchweb.png (320x180) [114.8 KB] || matthew_narrated_v106.5800_thm.png (80x40) [7.8 KB] || matthew (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || matthew_narrated_v106.webm (1920x1080) [22.0 MB] || matthew_narrated_v106.mp4 (1920x1080) [140.5 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || matthew_narrated_v106_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [443.1 MB] || matthew_narrated_nosound.hwshow ||

Data visualization of the 2020 Hurricane Season. Starts on May 1, 2020 just showing Sea Surface Temperatures and cloud cover. Precipitation data then dissolves in as hurricanes are tracked throughout 2020. Hurricane tracks include Hurricane strengths depicted with the letter "T" for Tropical Storm and numbers for each storm's respective strength. The visualization then culminates by showing all the storm tracks at once.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || hurr2020_4k_comp.7968_print.jpg (1024x576) [248.0 KB] || hurr2020_4k_comp.7968_searchweb.png (320x180) [93.7 KB] || hurr2020_4k_comp.7968_thm.png (80x40) [7.3 KB] || Example_Composite (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || hurr2020_comp_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [637.6 MB] || Example_Composite (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || captions_silent.30824.en_US.srt [43 bytes] || hurr2020_4k_comp_2160p30.webm (3840x2160) [167.6 MB] || hurr2020_4k_comp_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.6 GB] || hurr2020_comp_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [187 bytes] ||

This data visualization shows hurricane tracks over clouds over precipitation over sea surface temperatures from May 1 through September 30th, 2021. This presentation was created for the COP 26 Conference. || hurr2021_4k_comp.4991_print.jpg (1024x576) [337.4 KB] || hurr2021_4k_comp.4991_searchweb.png (320x180) [123.6 KB] || hurr2021_4k_comp.4991_thm.png (80x40) [17.6 KB] || hurr2021_comp_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [29.0 MB] || hurr2021_comp_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [489.6 MB] || composite (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || hurr2021_comp_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.7 GB] || hurr2021_comp_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [187 bytes] ||

This special version of the 2021 Hurricane Season data visualization uses all the below layers to show the entire 2021 Hurricane Season, but elements of it were sped up in post production to accelerate the data when no hurricanes are present. This provides the viewer with a more compact experience that focuses exclusively on the hurricanes. || hurr2021_comp5speed_2160p30.04733_print.jpg (1024x576) [248.6 KB] || hurr2021_speedComp7_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [437.0 MB] || Sample_Speed_Composite (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || hurr2021_speedComp7.webm (3840x2160) [91.3 MB] || hurr2021_speedComp7.mp4 (3840x2160) [197.5 MB] ||