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            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
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            "title": "Earth: A System of Systems (updated)",
            "description": "All six time-synchronous datasets, individually and then layered two at a time || layered_pairs_1080p.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [59.0 KB] || layered_pairs_1080p.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [42.0 KB] || layered_pairs_1080p.00001_thm.png (80x40) [3.8 KB] || layered_pairs_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [83.6 MB] || layered_pairs_1080p.webm (1920x1080) [28.6 MB] || layered_pairs_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [157.7 MB] || layered_pairs_2160p.mp4 (3840x2160) [432.6 MB] || A_System_of_Systems_Updated_-_30701.pptx [436.3 MB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4488/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2018-01-31T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Cretaceous-Era Dinosaur Prints Found at Goddard Space Flight Center",
            "description": "This visualization begins with a satellite view of the NASA Goddard campus.  A marker appears to show where a nodosaur print from the Cretaceous-era was found. The camera then zooms out to a global view, which is then compared to a similar view of a Cretaceous-era Earth.  Differences in ice coverage, CO2 concentration, and sea level are described before surface air temperature data for both time periods fades in, showing that the Cretaceous era was much warmer than modern day. This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || cretaceous_climate_3500_print.jpg (1024x576) [101.3 KB] || cretaceous_climate_3500_searchweb.png (320x180) [61.2 KB] || cretaceous_climate_3500_thm.png (80x40) [5.9 KB] || DinosaurPrint_CretaceousClimate (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || cretaceous_climate_1080p60.mp4 (1920x1080) [66.9 MB] || cretaceous_climate_1080p60.webm (1920x1080) [7.5 MB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4571/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2017-08-29T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Global Surface- and Upper-Level Winds",
            "description": "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. || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2016-06-23T11:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Monsoons: Wet, Dry, Repeat...",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4397/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2016-06-23T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Monsoons: Wet, Dry, Repeat...",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4439/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2016-06-23T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "High Resolution Layers from \"Monsoons: Wet, Dry, Repeat...\"",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4474/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2016-06-23T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "North American Monsoon",
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            "release_date": "2016-05-16T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Monsoons: Wet, Dry, Repeat... Abridged Version",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4416/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2016-01-11T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "1997-1998 El Nino Atmospheric River",
            "description": "1997 - 1998 El Nino -- Atmospheric River || ElNino_1997_98_f4_1080p30_print.jpg (1024x576) [74.0 KB] || ElNino_1997_98_f4_1080p30_searchweb.png (320x180) [45.6 KB] || ElNino_1997_98_f4_1080p30_web.png (320x180) [45.6 KB] || ElNino_1997_98_f4_1080p30_thm.png (80x40) [3.8 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || ElNino_1997_98_f4_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [14.5 MB] || ElNino_1997_98_f4_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [153.1 MB] || ElNino_1997_98_f4_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [191 bytes] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4417/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2016-01-11T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "2014 - 2015 Atmospheric River",
            "description": "The close-up view of the atmopheric river in Oct. 2014 - Mar. 2015. || atmosphericRiver_Oct2014_Mar2015_zoomIn_whole_1080p30_print.jpg (1024x576) [134.6 KB] || atmosphericRiver_Oct2014_Mar2015_zoomIn_whole_1080p30_searchweb.png (320x180) [83.4 KB] || atmosphericRiver_Oct2014_Mar2015_zoomIn_whole_1080p30_web.png (320x180) [83.4 KB] || atmosphericRiver_Oct2014_Mar2015_zoomIn_whole_1080p30_thm.png (80x40) [6.1 KB] || zoomIn (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || atmosphericRiver_Oct2014_Mar2015_zoomIn_whole_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [22.7 MB] || atmosphericRiver_Oct2014_Mar2015_zoomIn_whole_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [601.3 MB] || atmosphericRiver_Oct2014_Mar2015_zoomIn_whole_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [219 bytes] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4382/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2015-10-08T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "IMERG Precipitation and MERRA Winds",
            "description": "Surface winds from MERRA over IMERG precipitation rates for October, 2014.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || winds_precip_earth_1080p.00300_print.jpg (1024x576) [321.8 KB] || winds_precip_earth_1080p.00300_searchweb.png (320x180) [122.1 KB] || winds_precip_earth_1080p.00300_thm.png (80x40) [7.3 KB] || winds_precip_earth_1080p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || winds_precip_earth_1080p_30.webm (1920x1080) [9.0 MB] || winds_precip_earth_1080p_30.mp4 (1920x1080) [248.6 MB] || winds_precip_earth (3600x1800) [0 Item(s)] || winds_precip_earth_4382.pptx [252.7 MB] || winds_precip_earth_4382.key [255.4 MB] || winds_precip_earth_1080p_30.mp4.hwshow [193 bytes] || ",
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            "id": 4205,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4205/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2014-09-24T09:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Earth Science Heads-up Display",
            "description": "On September 10, 2014, NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) was celebrated in an evening event at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.  The title of this event was \"Vital Signs: Taking the Pulse of Our Planet\", and the speakers at this event included several Earth Scientists from Goddard Space Flight Center.  This animation was used in the beginning of the event to illustrate the interconnectedness of the many Earth-based data sets that NASA has produced over the last decade or so.  The animation simulates a view of the Earth from the International Space Station, over which interconnected data sets are displayed as if on a head-up display. || ",
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            "id": 4171,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4171/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2014-05-20T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "European Jet Stream",
            "description": "Meandering around the planet like a rollicking roller coaster in the sky, the Northern Hemisphere's polar jet stream is a fast-moving belt of westerly winds that traverses the lower layers of the atmosphere. The jet is created by the convergence of cold air masses descending from the Arctic and rising warm air from the tropics. Deep troughs and steep ridges emerge as the denser cold air sinks and deflects warm air regions north, giving the jet stream its wavy appearance. This pattern propagates across the mid-latitudes of North America, Europe and Asia, as pockets of cold air sporadically creep down from the Arctic—creating contrasting waves and flows that accelerate eastward due to Earth's rotation. This visualization uses weather and climate observations from NASA's MERRA data model. || ",
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        {
            "id": 4148,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4148/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2014-02-25T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "The Polar Jet Stream Over Asia, 2010",
            "description": "Meandering around the planet like a rollicking roller coaster in the sky, the Northern Hemisphere's polar jet stream is a fast-moving belt of westerly winds that traverses the lower layers of the atmosphere. The jet is created by the convergence of cold air masses descending from the Arctic and rising warm air from the tropics. Deep troughs and steep ridges emerge as the denser cold air sinks and deflects warm air regions north, giving the jet stream its wavy appearance. This pattern propagates across the mid-latitudes of North America, Europe and Asia, as pockets of cold air sporadically creep down from the Arctic—creating contrasting waves and flows that accelerate eastward due to Earth's rotation. This visualization was adapted from The Polar Jet Stream (#3864) by special request, using weather and climate observations from NASA's MERRA data model from 2010 for the period of the floods in Russia and the droughts in Pakistan. || ",
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            "id": 3879,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3879/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2013-10-01T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Wind and Ocean Circulation shot for Dynamic Earth Dome Show",
            "description": "This visualization was created for the planetarium dome show film called Dynamic Earth. It is rendered with a fish-eye projection, called domemaster, which is why it looks circular. In a dome, the image fills the dome's hemisphere so that the parts near the bottom of the image are low and in front of the view, the top of the image is behind the viewer, and the left and right sides are to the left and right of the viewer.The camera slowly pushes in towards the Earth revealing global wind patterns. The wind patterns are from the MERRA computational model of the atomsphere. As the camera continues to push in, the winds fade away, revealing ocean currents which are driven, in part, by the winds. The ocean currents are from the ECCO-2 computational model of the oceans and ice. Only the higher speed ocean currents are shown. The camera moves around the Western Atlantic highlighting the Gulf stream from above and below. The camera finally emerges from beneath sea level and moves over to the Gulf of Mexico to examine the Loop Current.This shot is designed to seamlessly match to the end of the Earth/CME shot (animation id #3551.). Topographic features are exaggerated 20 times above water and 40 times below water. The exaggeration is primarily to allow the viewer to distinguish the depths of the flow fields.This visualization was shown in the \"VR Village\" at SIGGRAPH 2015. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4095/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2013-08-09T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Potential Evaporation in North America Through 2100",
            "description": "This animation shows the projected increase in potential evaporation during the fire season through the year 2100, relative to 1980, based on the combined results of multiple climate models: MERRA data for 1980-2010 and an ensemble of 20 climate models for 2010-2100. The maximum increase across North America is about 1 mm/day by 2100. This concept, potential evaporation, is a measure of drying potential or \"fire weather.\" An average increase of 1 mm/day over the whole year is a big change — 1 mm/day increase in PE is considered to be an \"extreme\" event for fires, similar to the conditions in Colorado in 2012. By these projections, fire years like 2012 would be the new normal in regions like the western US by the end of the 21st century. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11003/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2012-06-19T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Excerpt from \"Dynamic Earth\"",
            "description": "A giant explosion of magnetic energy from the sun, called a coronal mass ejection, slams into and is deflected completely by the Earth's powerful magnetic field. The sun also continually sends out streams of light and radiation energy. Earth's atmosphere acts like a radiation shield, blocking quite a bit of this energy.Much of the radiation energy that makes it through is reflected back into space by clouds, ice and snow and the energy that remains helps to drive the Earth system, powering a remarkable planetary engine — the climate. It becomes the energy that feeds swirling wind and ocean currents as cold air and surface waters move toward the equator and warm air and water moves toward the poles — all in an attempt to equalize temperatures around the world.A jury appointed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Science magazine has selected \"Excerpt from Dynamic Earth\" as the winner of the 2013 NSF International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge for the Video category. This animation will be highlighted in the February 2014 special section of Science and will be hosted on ScienceMag.org and NSF.govThis animation was selected for the Computer Animation Festival's Electronic Theater at the Association for Computer Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH), a prestigious computer graphics and technical research forum. This is an excerpt from the fulldome, high-resolution show 'Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine.' The Dynamic Earth dome show was selected as a finalist in the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival Science Media Awards under the category \"Best Immersive Cinema - Fulldome\". || ",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2011-12-12T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Compositing Elements for Loop",
            "description": "This entry contains compositing layers used for the Science On a Sphere show \"Loop.\" || Mask for flow colors || sos_realistic.0001.jpg (2048x1024) [869.3 KB] || sos_realistic.0001_thm.png (80x40) [2.4 KB] || sos_realistic.0001_web.png (320x160) [87.7 KB] || sos_realistic.0001_searchweb.png (320x180) [87.7 KB] || sos_realistic_1024.webmhd.webm (960x540) [58.3 MB] || sos_flow_mask (2048x1024) [256.0 KB] || sos_realistic_1024.mp4 (2048x1024) [422.5 MB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3864/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2011-10-03T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "The Polar Jet Stream",
            "description": "Meandering around the planet like a rollicking roller coaster in the sky, the Northern Hemisphere's polar jet stream is a fast-moving belt of westerly winds that traverses the lower layers of the atmosphere. The jet is created by the convergence of cold air masses descending from the Arctic and rising warm air from the tropics. Deep troughs and steep ridges emerge as the denser cold air sinks and deflects warm air regions north, giving the jet stream its wavy appearance. This pattern propagates across the mid-latitudes of North America, Europe and Asia, as pockets of cold air sporadically creep down from the Arctic - creating contrasting waves and flows that accelerate eastward due to Earth's rotation. Running from June 10 to July 8 of 1988, the visualization below uses weather and climate observations from NASA's MERRA dataset to model nearly a month of the jet stream's whirling journey over North America. || ",
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        {
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3850/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2011-08-30T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Extreme Russian Fires and Pakistan Floods Linked Meteorologically",
            "description": "In the summer of 2010, months of record-breaking drought and temperatures culminated with a rash of fires that ravaged western Russia for weeks. Temperatures in Moscow soared to an average of 104 °F (40 °C) during late July and early August — more than 18 °F (10  °C) above normal. Hundreds of fires broke out producing some $15 million in damages. The heat and smoke killed about 56,000 people, making the Russian wildfires fires one of the most lethal natural disasters of the year.Meanwhile, some 930 kilometers (1,500 miles) away, relentless rainfall was simultaneously pounding Pakistan and generating intense flooding. The Pakistan Meteorological Department reported nationwide rain totals 70 percent above normal in July and 102 percent above normal in August.New research conducted by William Lau, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., suggests the two seemingly disconnected events were actually closely linked.Under normal circumstances, the jet stream pushes weather fronts through Eurasia in four or five days, but something unusual happened in July of 2010. A large-scale, stagnant weather pattern — known as an Omega blocking event — slowed the Rossby wave over Russia and prevented the normal progression of weather systems from west to east.As a result, a large region of high-pressure formed over Russia trapping a hot, dry air mass over the area. As the high lingered, the land surface dried and the normal transfer of moisture from the soil to the atmosphere slowed. Precipitation ceased, vegetation dried out, and the region became a taiga tinderbox.Meanwhile, the blocking pattern created unusual downstream wind patterns over Pakistan. Areas of low pressure on the leading edge of the Rossby wave formed in response to the high, pulling cold, dry Siberian air into lower latitudes.This cold air from Siberia clashed with warm, moist air arriving over Pakistan from the Bay of Bengal as part of the monsoon. There's nothing unusual about moisture moving north over India toward the Himalayas. It's a normal part of the monsoon. However, in this case, the unusual wind patterns associated with the blocking high brought upper level air disturbances farther south than typical, which in effect helped shifted the entire monsoon system north and west.This brought heavy monsoon rains — centered over parts of India — squarely over the northern part of Pakistan, a region ill-prepared to handle large amounts of rain. || ",
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        {
            "id": 3831,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3831/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2011-06-10T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "MERRA: A Flood and Drought Comparison (Updated Version)",
            "description": "The MERRA time period covers the modern era of remotely sensed data, from 1979 through the present.  The special focus of the atmospheric assimilation is the hydrological cycle.The time period covered by this visualization is the months of May, June, and July of 1988 and 1993, two years with contrasting extreme weather events during the summer: a drought through the midwesterd states of the US in 1988, and heavy rains and flooding through the same region in 1993. || ",
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        {
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3829/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2011-05-10T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Aquarius studies Ocean and Wind Flows",
            "description": "Aquarius is a focused satellite mission to measure global Sea Surface Salinity. During its nominal three-year mission, Aquarius will map the salinity at the ocean surface to improve our understanding of Earth's water cycle and ocean circulation. Aquarius will help scientists see how freshwater moves between the ocean and the atmosphere. It will monitor changes in the water cycle due to rainfall, evaporation, ice melting, and river runoff. Aquarius will also demonstrate a measurement capability that can be applied to future operational missions. Ocean circulation is driven in large part by changes in water density, which is determined by temperature and salinity. Cold, high-salinity water masses sink and trigger the ocean's \"themalhaline circulation\" - the surface and deep currents that distribute solar energy to regulate Earth's climate. By measuring salinity, Aquarius will provide new insight into this global process. Aquarius' measurements of ocean salinity will provide a new perspective on the ocean and its links to climate, greatly expanding upon limited past measurements. Aquarius salinity data - combined with data from other sensors that measure sea level, ocean color, temperature, winds and rainfall will give us a much clearer picture of how the ocean works, how it is linked to climate, and how it may respond to climate change.Aquarius will provide information that will help improve predictions of future climate trends and short-term climate events such as El Niño and La Niña. Precise salinity measurements from Aquarius will reveal changes in patterns of global precipitation and evaporation and show how these changes may affect ocean circulation. || ",
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