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            "release_date": "2026-08-19T15:59:59-04:00",
            "title": "Mapping Snow Drought in the Pacific Northwest",
            "description": "In December 2025 an atmospheric river passed over the Pacific Northwest which led to heavy rainstorms and flooding. This early season rainfall was then followed up by a record low snow pack. View visualizations mapping both the atmospheric river and snow cover for the 2025-2026 season and a comparison to a historical baseline.",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5131/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2024-12-09T10:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Hurricane Ian's Clouds, Lightning, Humidity and Winds",
            "description": "This visualization begins with an image sequence of cloud and lightning images of Hurricane Ian created by Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) and NOAA.  The image sequence fades to show the volume of humidity (shown in blue) along with the wind flows near the surface.  As the camera pulls back we see the humidity in a  9 degree by 9 degree region off the western coast of Florida.  A box containing this region gradually grows in altitude showing the fast wind circulation above the humidity volume up to an altitude of 17 km. || Hurricane_Ian_comp_v03_4k.1728_print.jpg (1024x576) [192.5 KB] || Hurricane_Ian_comp_v03_4k.1728_searchweb.png (320x180) [67.7 KB] || Hurricane_Ian_comp_v03_4k.1728_thm.png (80x40) [5.3 KB] || Hurricane_Ian_comp_v03_30p_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [98.3 MB] || Hurricane_Ian_comp_v03_4k_1080p60.mp4 (1920x1080) [106.1 MB] || Hurricane_Ian_comp (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || Hurricane_Ian_comp (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || Hurricane_Ian_comp_v03_4k_2160p60.mp4 (3840x2160) [338.6 MB] || Hurricane_Ian_comp_v03_4k_30p_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [310.0 MB] || Hurricane_Ian_comp_v03_4k_30p_2160p30.mp4.hwshow || ",
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            "release_date": "2022-01-25T14:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "A 3D View of an Atmospheric River from an Earth System Model",
            "description": "Narrated atmospheric rivers movie. || atmos_rivers_narrated_4k.00090_print.jpg (1024x576) [88.5 KB] || atmos_rivers_narrated_4k.00090_print_searchweb.png (320x180) [46.0 KB] || atmos_rivers_narrated_HD.webm (1920x1080) [68.6 MB] || atmos_rivers_narrated_HD.mp4 (1920x1080) [410.9 MB] || atmos_river_narrated_4k.en_US.srt [6.3 KB] || atmos_river_narrated_4k.en_US.vtt [6.3 KB] || atmos_rivers_4k.en_US.vtt [6.3 KB] || atmos_rivers_narrated_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [646.9 MB] ||",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2021-10-07T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "3D Water Vapor shows an Atmospheric River",
            "description": "This visualization shows the NOAA-20 satellite orbiting the Earth with a trail of 3D water vapor behind it collected between January 25 and 28, 2021.  The calculated total precipitable water (TPW) is shown in a blue to red color scale beneath the white water vapor.Coming soon to our YouTube channel. || JPSS_ATMS_water_vapor_with_TPW.3462_print.jpg (1024x576) [179.6 KB] || JPSS_ATMS_water_vapor_with_TPW_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [83.0 MB] || JPSS_ATMS_water_vapor_with_TPW_1080p60.mp4 (1920x1080) [84.5 MB] || JPSS_ATMS_water_vapor_with_TPW_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [7.7 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || 1920x1080_16x9_60p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || 3840x2160_16x9_60p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || captions_silent.31606.en_US.srt [43 bytes] || JPSS_ATMS_water_vapor_with_TPW_30p_2160p30_2.mp4 (3840x2160) [409.8 MB] || JPSS_ATMS_water_vapor_with_TPW_60p_2160p60_2.mp4 (3840x2160) [441.6 MB] || JPSS_ATMS_water_vapor_with_TPW_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [204 bytes] || ",
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            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2020-05-08T00:00:00-04:00",
            "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/4555/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2017-02-23T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "California Gets Slammed Again",
            "description": "California has been experiencing a drought since 2012, but the first months of 2017 have brought some relief in the form of torrential rains.  These rains have been brought to California in a series of atmospheric rivers, long narrow channels of water vapor in the atmosphere that reach from tropical latitudes to the coast of California.  These channels bring rainfall to the state when they are disrupted by atmospheric conditions over California's eastern mountains.  This visualization of atmospheric water vapor and precipitation during the first three weeks of February clearly show the successive atmospheric rivers and the resulting rainfall. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4547/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2017-01-23T13:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Atmospheric River Slams California",
            "description": "This visualization combines precipitation data from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals (IMERG) and water vapor data from Goddard Earth Observing System Model (GEOS) . Together, they allow scientists to study atmospheric rivers and the heavy precipitation they bring to California.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || atriver_00380_print.jpg (1024x576) [143.5 KB] || atriver_00380_searchweb.png (320x180) [90.6 KB] || atriver_00380_thm.png (80x40) [6.9 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || atriver_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [20.6 MB] || atriver_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [2.4 MB] || atriver_4547.key [22.8 MB] || atriver_4547.pptx [22.5 MB] || ",
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            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2016-02-08T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Earth: A System of Systems",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4381/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2015-10-14T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Nebraska Water Usage",
            "description": "Animation begins with a wide view of the entire United States and then zooms down to an area in Nebraska where water usage studies have been done using Landsat-8 satellite data. The camera slowly pans across the area first showing true color Landsat-8 data, then transitioning to temperature data (in shades of orange and violet), then to ETRF (shades of green), ending with an extrusion of water use data (shades of blue) where the camera pulls back to show the entire area of interest. || neb_v2.2150_print.jpg (1024x576) [191.2 KB] || neb_v2.mp4 (1920x1080) [52.8 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || neb_v2.webm (1920x1080) [8.6 MB] || neb_v2.mp4.hwshow [335 bytes] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30583/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2015-02-13T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "AXIOM-1 Sea Surface Salinity, Sea Ice Thickness and Atmospheric Precipitable Water",
            "description": "This animation shows sea surface sailinity, sea ice thickness, and atmospheric precipitable water. || 0001_print.jpg (1024x576) [234.1 KB] || 0001_searchweb.png (180x320) [120.0 KB] || 0001_web.png (320x180) [120.0 KB] || 0001_thm.png (80x40) [8.0 KB] || sss-1920x1080.webm (1920x1080) [16.1 MB] || axiom_salinity_h265_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [109.1 MB] || axiom_salinity_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [166.0 MB] || sss-1920x1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [976.2 MB] || sss (5760x3240) [128.0 KB] || axiom_salinity_h265_2304p.mp4 (4096x2304) [1.0 GB] || ocean+salinity_ice_thickness_precip_water_30583.key [983.1 MB] || ocean+salinity_ice_thickness_precip_water_30583.pptx [979.9 MB] || axiom_salinity_2304p.mp4 (4096x2304) [1.5 GB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30584/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2015-02-13T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "AXIOM-1 Ocean chlorophyll, Sea Ice Thickness and Atmospheric Precipitable Water",
            "description": "This animation shows ocean surface chlorophyll concentration, sea ice thickness, and atmospheric precipitable water. || 0001_print.jpg (1024x576) [236.0 KB] || 0001_searchweb.png (320x180) [121.0 KB] || 0001_web.png (320x180) [121.0 KB] || 0001_thm.png (80x40) [8.0 KB] || chl-1920x1080.webm (1920x1080) [15.9 MB] || axiom_chl_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [161.2 MB] || axiom_chl_h265_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [105.5 MB] || chl-1920x1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [889.5 MB] || chl (5760x3240) [128.0 KB] || axiom_chl_h265_2304p.mp4 (4096x2304) [913.8 MB] || chlorophyll_ice_thickness_precip_water_30584.key [896.4 MB] || chlorophyll_ice_thickness_precip_water_30584.pptx [893.1 MB] || axiom_chl_2304p.mp4 (4096x2304) [1.4 GB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30644/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2014-12-10T10:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Simulated Clouds and Precipitable Water",
            "description": "Clouds and precipitable water animation of Apr 1 - Jul 31, 2006. || geos_cloudspw_20060101_0000_print.jpg (1024x576) [245.1 KB] || geos_cloudspw_20060101_0000.png (4096x2304) [15.1 MB] || geos_cloudspw_20060101_0000_searchweb.png (320x180) [108.1 KB] || geos_cloudspw_20060101_0000_thm.png (80x40) [7.9 KB] || geos_cloudspw_720p.webm (1280x720) [12.5 MB] || geos_cloudspw_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [270.8 MB] || geos_cloudspw_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [523.0 MB] || geos_cloudspw_2160p.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.4 GB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30548/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2014-11-18T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Montage of early data from Aura's Microwave Limb Sounder",
            "description": "Montage of six measurements made by MLS || montage_early_data_aura_microwave_limb_sounder_print.jpg (1024x576) [59.6 KB] || montage_early_data_aura_microwave_limb_sounder_web.png (320x180) [40.8 KB] || montage_early_data_aura_microwave_limb_sounder_web.jpg (320x180) [11.6 KB] || montage_early_data_aura_microwave_limb_sounder_searchweb.png (180x320) [40.8 KB] || montage_early_data_aura_microwave_limb_sounder_thm.png (80x40) [4.4 KB] || mls_montage_720p.webm (1280x720) [1.3 MB] || mls_montage_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [1.3 MB] || mls_montage_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [2.3 MB] || montage_early_data_aura_microwave_limb_sounder.tif (5760x3240) [19.2 MB] || mls_montage_360p.mp4 (640x360) [523.1 KB] || mls_montage_2304p.mp4 (4096x2304) [6.4 MB] || Montage_early_data_Aura_Microwave_Limb_S.pptx [1.9 MB] || Montage_early_data_Aura_Microwave_Limb_S.key [4.3 MB] || ",
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        {
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30524/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2014-11-03T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "AXIOM-1 Sea Surface Temperature",
            "description": "This animation shows sea surface temperature, ice thickness, and atmospheric precipitable water. || 0001_print.jpg (1024x576) [212.3 KB] || 0001_searchweb.png (320x180) [102.5 KB] || 0001_web.png (320x180) [102.5 KB] || 0001_thm.png (80x40) [7.0 KB] || sst-1920x1080.webm (1920x1080) [41.7 MB] || sst (1920x1080) [128.0 KB] || sst (5760x3240) [128.0 KB] || sst-1920x1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [1.3 GB] || sst_ice_thickness_precip_water_30524.key [1.3 GB] || sst_ice_thickness_precip_water_30524.pptx [1.3 GB] || sst-5760x3240.mp4 (5760x3240) [9.0 GB] || ",
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        {
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30469/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2013-11-01T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Landsat Data Help Water-Resource Managers",
            "description": "In the Western United States between 80 and 90% of freshwater is used for agriculture. In Southern California irrigated farmland stretches southward across the desert from the Salton Sea—an artificial inland sea—to the Mexico border. In the natural-color image [left] acquired on May 15, 2013, by Landsat 8’s Operational Land Imager, blocks of square farmland appear in shades of green and tan, while urban areas such as El Centro, California and Mexicali, Mexico appear in shades of gray. Accurate estimates of total crop area provided by Landsat satellites can be used to help forecast commodities in the United States and the world food market. On that same day, thermal measurements from Landsat 8’s Thermal Infrared Sensor [right] show different temperatures between crop fields as well as urban and desert areas. Cooler areas (e.g., irrigated crops) appear as dark purple and red shades, while warmer areas (e.g., urban and desert areas) appear as shades of bright yellow and white. Plants cool down when they transpire, so the combination of water evaporating from the plants and the ground (i.e., evapotranspiration) lowers the temperature of the irrigated land. Pixels representing cooler areas in thermal images from TIRS help water-resource managers determine where water is being used for irrigation, allowing them to make management decisions on water distribution to preserve this scarce resource. When an earlier design of Landsat 8 did not include a thermal infrared band, the Western States Water Council advocated for its inclusion.Used in 2014 Calendar. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30388/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2013-10-24T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Monthly Water Vapor (Terra/MODIS)",
            "description": "Water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere as it traps heat near the surface of the Earth making our planet warm enough to support life. Scientists monitor water vapor in the atmosphere because it influences Earth's weather patterns, and because it is a very important component of Earth's climate system. These maps show a monthly water vapor product from January 2005 to the present, derived using data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument onboard NASA’s Terra satellite. The water vapor product reveals the total amount of water vapor in a 1-kilometer by 1-kilometer column of the atmosphere. Dark blue shades indicate areas with high water vapor content, while light yellow shades indicate areas with little or no water vapor content. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30401/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2013-10-24T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Monthly Water Vapor (Aqua/MODIS)",
            "description": "Water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere as it traps heat near the surface of the Earth making our planet warm enough to support life. Scientists monitor water vapor in the atmosphere because it influences Earth's weather patterns, and because it is a very important component of Earth's climate system. These maps show a monthly water vapor product from July 2002 to the present, derived using data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument onboard NASA’s Aqua satellite. The water vapor product reveals the total amount of water vapor in a 1-kilometer by 1-kilometer column of the atmosphere. Dark blue shades indicate areas with high water vapor content, while light yellow shades indicate areas with little or no water vapor content. || ",
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        {
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4044/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2013-02-27T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "The Distributed Water Balance of the Nile Basin",
            "description": "This visualization shows how satellite data and NASA models are being applied to study the hydrology of the Nile basin. The Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) Multisensor Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) provides three-hourly estimates of rainfall rate across much of the globe. Here we see the seasonal cycle of monthly precipitation derived from TMPA for Africa, including the Nile Basin. The annual migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) from the Nile Equatorial Lakes region around Lake Victoria, source of the White Nile, northward into Sudan and the highlands of Ethiopia, headwaters of the Blue Nile, and back is evident in the seasonal cycle in precipitation. This precipitation cycle drives flow through the Nile River system. The Nile basin, however, is intensely evaporative, and the majority of the water that falls as rain leaves the basin as evaporation rather than river flow—either from the humid headwaters regions or from large reservoirs and irrigation developments in Egypt and Sudan. The Atmosphere Land Exchange Inverse (ALEXI) evapotranspiration product, developed by USDA scientists, uses satellite data to map daily evapotranspiration across the entire Nile basin, providing unprecedented information on water consumption. The balance of rainfall and evapotranspiration can be seen in seasonal patterns of soil moisture, as simulated by the NASA Nile Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS), which merges satellite information with a physically-based land surface model to simulate variability in soil moisture—a critical variable for rainfed agriculture and natural ecosystems. Finally, the twin satellites of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) can be used to monitor variability in total water storage, including surface water, soil moisture, and groundwater. The annual cycle in GRACE estimates of water storage anomalies clearly shows the seasonal movement of water storage due to precipitation patterns and the movement of surface waters from headwaters regions into the wetlands of South Sudan and the reservoirs of the lower Nile basin.The Nile is the longest river in the world and its basin is shared by 11 countries. Reliable, spatially distributed estimates of hydrologic storage and fluxes can provide critical information for water managers contending with multiple resource demands, a variable and changing climate, and the risk of damaging floods and droughts. NASA observations and modeling systems offer unique capabilities to meet these information needs. || ",
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        {
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11054/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2012-08-02T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Earth's Water Cycle",
            "description": "Water is the fundamental ingredient for life on Earth. Looking at our Earth from space, with its vast and deep ocean, it appears as though there is an abundance of water for our use. However, only a small portion of Earth's water is accessible for our needs. How much fresh water exists and where it is stored affects us all. This animation uses Earth science data from a variety of sensors on NASA Earth observing satellites as well as cartoons to describe Earth's water cycle and the continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth. Sensors on a suite of NASA satellites observe and measure water on land, in the ocean and in the atmosphere. These measurements are important to understanding the availability and distribution of Earth's water — vital to life and vulnerable to the impacts of climate change on a growing world population.NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information Systems (EOSDIS) EOSDIS is a distributed system of twelve data centers and science investigator processing systems. EOSDIS processes, archives, and distributes data from Earth observing satellites, field campaigns, airborne sensors, and related Earth science programs. These data enable the study of Earth from space to advance scientific understanding.For questions, please contact eosdis-outreach@lists.nasa.gov || ",
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        {
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10926/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2012-03-08T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Evaporation and Transpiration",
            "description": "Much of the water that soaks into the soil from irrigation or rain ultimately returns the the atmosphere as water vapor through direct evaporation from the surface or by transpiration through plant leaves as the plants use the water for growth and seed production. This loss cools the surface and plant canopy just like the evaporation of sweat cools our skin. A cool field in an arid area indicates water use by irrigation. Using the surface temperatures measured by satellites, and some additional information, water resource managers can determine the rate at which water is used in a farm field. || ",
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        {
            "id": 10914,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10914/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2012-02-14T05:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "TIRS - the Thermal Infrared Sensor on LDCM",
            "description": "The Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) is one of the instruments on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite. It will continue the archive of thermal imaging and support emerging applications such as evapotranspiration rate measurements for water management. TIRS is being built by NASA GSFC and has a three-year design life.In February 2012, TIRS was shipped from GSFC to Orbital Sciences Corporation in Gilbert, Arizona to be integrated with the LDCM spacecraft.TIRS operates in a pushbroom mode to create images in two IR bands, centered at 10.8 and 12.0 microns, over a 185 km swath with a 100 m spatial resolution. The TIRS design includes cryogenically-cooled QWIP detector arrays and a steerable mirror to choose among 3 views: nadir for Earth observations, on-board warm blackbody for calibration, and deep space for calibration. The TIRS data will be registered to the OLI data to create radiometrically, geometrically, and terrain-corrected 12-bit LDCM data products. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30284/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2011-11-21T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Suomi NPP Measures Water Vapor from Space",
            "description": "The Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) aboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite mission acquired its first measurements on November 8, 2011. The global image shows the ATMS channel 18 data, which measures water vapor in the lower atmosphere. Tropical Storm Sean is visible as a patch of blue in the Atlantic Ocean off the Southeastern coast of the United States.As a passive microwave radiometer, the ATMS instrument can collect data even when it is cloudy. Paired with the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS), also aboard Suomi NPP, the two can produce global datasets of high-resolution temperature and moisture profiles that are used for forecasting and studying weather. || ",
            "hits": 50
        },
        {
            "id": 3837,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3837/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2011-06-13T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Components of the Water Cycle on a Flat Map for Science On a Sphere",
            "description": "Water regulates climate, predominately storing heat during the day and releasing it at night. Water in the ocean and atmosphere carry heat from the tropics to the poles. The process by which water moves around the earth, from the ocean, to the atmosphere, to the land and back to the ocean is called the water cycle. The animations below each portray a component of the water cycle. These animations of the components of the water cycle were created for the Science On a Sphere production \"Loop\" using data from the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 25-days. Variables animated here include hourly clouds, precipitation, evaporation and water vapor. For more information on GEOS-5 see https://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5. Some of these visualizations are an orthographic view of the data used in Components of the Water Cycle. || ",
            "hits": 114
        },
        {
            "id": 3811,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3811/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2011-01-11T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Components of the Water Cycle on a Flat Map",
            "description": "Water regulates climate, predominately storing heat during the day and releasing it at night. Water in the ocean and atmosphere carry heat from the tropics to the poles. The process by which water moves around the earth, from the ocean, to the atmosphere, to the land and back to the ocean is called the water cycle. The animations below each portray a component of the water cycle. The three animations of atmospheric phenomena were created using data from the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 25-days. Variables animated here include hourly evaporation, water vapor and precipitation. For more information on GEOS-5 see http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5 . For more information on the cubed-sphere work see http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/610.3/cubedsphere.html.The animation of global sea surface temperature was created using data from a model run of ECCO's Ocean General Circulation Model. See http://www.ecco-group.org/model.htm for more information on ECCO.This group of animations are an orthographic view of the data used in Components of the Water Cycle. || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 3733,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3733/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2010-06-24T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "MERRA Wind",
            "description": "Retrospective-analyses (or reanalyses) have been a critical tool in studying weather and climate variability for the last 15 years. Reanalyses blend the continuity and breadth of output data of a numerical model with the constraint of vast quantities of observational data. The result is a long-term continuous data record. The Modern Era Retrospective-analysis for Research and Applications was developed to support NASA's Earth science objectives, by applying the state-of-the-art GMAO data assimilation system that includes many modern observing systems (such as EOS) in a climate framework.The MERRA time period covers the modern era of remotely sensed data, from 1979 through the present, and the special focus of the atmospheric assimilation is the hydrological cycle.The time period covered by the 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 midwestern states of the US in 1988, and heavy rains and flooding through the same region in 1993.This visualization shows the combined U and V components of wind at three different pressure levels: 850 mb, 500 mb, and 300 mb. The pressure coordinate is greatly exaggerated.This animation was created as part of a presentation for the Nasa Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) hyperwall display. This is a set of tiled high definition displays consisting of 5 displays across by 3 displays down. The full resolution of all combined displays is 6840 pixels accross by 2304 pixels down. For the full presentation, see the link below. || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 3711,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3711/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2010-05-01T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Five Spheres - Water",
            "description": "Satellite data can be used to observe the dramatic ebb and flow of the our planet's water system from space. This animation of QuikSCAT's sea surface winds is match framed to animation entries 3707, 3708, 3709, and 3710. The SeaWinds Scatterometer instrument on the QuikSCAT satellite captures the always moving and complex sea surface. The mission has also provided critical information for monitoring, modeling, forecasting and researching our atmosphere, ocean and climate.By any measure of success, the 10-year-old QuikSCAT mission is a unique national resource that has achieved and far surpassed its science objectives. Designed for a two-year lifetime, QuikSCAT has been used around the globe by the world's operational meteorological agencies to improve weather forecasts and identify the location, size and strength of hurricanes and other storms in the open ocean. More information on QuikSCAT is online at: http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/quikscat/index.cfm. || ",
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        {
            "id": 10574,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10574/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2010-02-22T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle",
            "description": "The decade from 2000 to 2009 was the warmest in the modern record. \"Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle\" illustrates how NASA satellites enable us to study possible causes of climate change. The video explains what role fluctuations in the solar cycle, changes in snow and cloud cover, and rising levels of heat-trapping gases may play in contributing to climate change. For complete transcript, click here. || Temperature_Puzzle_fullres.01252_print.jpg (1024x576) [113.2 KB] || Temperature_Puzzle_fullres_web.png (320x180) [207.8 KB] || Temperature_Puzzle_fullres_thm.png (80x40) [16.9 KB] || Temperature_Puzzle_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [83.9 MB] || Temperature_Puzzle_fullres.mov (1280x720) [166.2 MB] || Temperature_Puzzle_AppleTV.m4v (960x720) [211.4 MB] || Temperature_Puzzle__Youtube.mov (1280x720) [87.7 MB] || Temperature_Puzzle_iPod_small.m4v (640x360) [67.9 MB] || Temperature_Puzzle_iPod_large.m4v (320x180) [27.9 MB] || Temperature_Puzzle_svs.mpg (512x288) [136.6 MB] || Temperature_Puzzle_portal.wmv (346x260) [38.8 MB] || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 3643,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3643/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Hourly Atmospheric Water Vapor from the GEOS-5 Model",
            "description": "These three animations portray the hourly flow of atmospheric water vapor around the world. The animations were created using data from the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 30-days. For more information on the GEOS-5, see http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5 . For more information on the cubed-sphere work, see http://sivo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cubedsphere_overview.html. || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 3645,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3645/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Hourly Total Precipitation from the GEOS-5 Model",
            "description": "This animation portrays the hourly flow of precipitation around the world. The animation was created using data from the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 30-days. For more information on the GEOS-5, see http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5 . For more information on the cubed-sphere work, see http://sivo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cubedsphere_overview.html. || ",
            "hits": 36
        },
        {
            "id": 3648,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3648/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Components of the Water Cycle",
            "description": "Water regulates climate, storing heat during the day and releasing it at night. Water in the ocean and atmosphere carry heat from the tropics to the poles. The process by which water moves around the earth, from the ocean, to the atmosphere, to the land and back to the ocean is called the water cycle. The animations below each portray a component of the water cycle. All use an identical view and camera motion to allow for easy compositing.Data for the animation of global sea surface temperature was derived from a model run of ECCO's Ocean General Circulation Model. See http://www.ecco-group.org/model.htm for more information on ECCO.Data for the animation of atmospheric phenomena was created using data from the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 25-days. Variables animated here include evaporation, water vapor and precipitation.For more information on the GEOS-5 see http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5.For more information on the cubed-sphere work see http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/610.3/cubedsphere.html.All three of these animations are time synchronous throughout the animation to allow cross fades during compositing.The final animation shown here, a pulsing network of rivers over the continents, represents the flow of water from land back into the ocean, thereby completing the water cycle.A flat version of these animations can be found in item #3811. || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 3632,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3632/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-09-14T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Evapotranspiration from Landsat",
            "description": "Instruments on the Landsat satellites capture images in the visible spectrum, but they also take images in wavelengths invisible to the naked eye. Landsat's thermal imager captures land surface temperature data. As farmers irrigate fields, water evaporates from the soil and transpires from plants' leaves. The combined process is called evapotranspiration. Evapotranspiring water absorbs energy, so farm fields consuming more water appear cooler in the thermal band. Landsat-based evapotranspiration measurements provide an objective way for water managers to assess on a field-by-field basis how much water agricultural growers are using. The measurements have even been used to help settle water rights conflicts in court. || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 10484,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10484/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2009-09-14T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Landsat: A Space Age Water Gauge",
            "description": "Agriculture consumes a great deal of water. As demand for water increases, the pressure's on to make sure every drop counts. || ",
            "hits": 62
        },
        {
            "id": 10387,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10387/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Aerosols Impact Cloud Formation",
            "description": "Aerosols are complex particles; they occur in nature and can also be generated by human activity. One important new area of aerosol research involves how aerosols impact clouds. Without aerosols, clouds could not exist. Aerosol particles serve as condensation nuclei for water vapor in the atmosphere. Atmospheric water molecules are drawn to aerosol particles like magnets, forming water droplets and eventually creating a cloud. The introduction of a larger number of aerosols will modify cloud's natural properties, leading to an accumulation of water droplets that are smaller in size but greater in number. Clouds play an important role in regulating Earth's climate; aerosol-rich air masses generate clouds that are bigger, brighter, and longer lasting. || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 3436,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3436/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2007-07-05T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "CloudSat, Calipso and MODIS over Central America",
            "description": "Associated with tropical thunderstorms are broad fields of cirrus clouds that flow out of the tops of the vigorous storm systems that form over warm tropical oceans. These clouds play a role in how much infrared energy is trapped in Earth's atmosphere. NASA's Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling (TC4) mission, which runs from July 16, 2007 through August 8, 2007, aims to document the full lifecycle of these clouds. Observations from four A-Train satellites flying in formation will complement the aircraft measurements with large-scale views of many different features of the atmosphere. Observations from this mission along with previous studies will improve our understanding of what effect a warming climate with rising ocean temperatures will have on these cloud systems. These images over Central America, produced in support of the TC4 mission, show a tropical storm system over Central and South America on August 2, 2006 as measured from multiple satellite sensors, including Aqua MODIS, CloudSat and CALIPSO. In this view from the Pacific Ocean, Panama is on the left and South America is shown on the right. In the following series of still images, each satellite's measurement is shown individually and in combination with the others from the same camera viewpoint. The profile showing CloudSat and CALIPSO data is truncated at a height of twenty kilometers and exaggerated ten times. The land topography is also exaggerated by a factor of ten. || ",
            "hits": 63
        },
        {
            "id": 3210,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3210/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2005-07-28T11:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Global Large-scale Precipitation during Hurricane Frances (WMS)",
            "description": "Water vapor is a small but significant constituent of the atmosphere, warming the planet due to the greenhouse effect and condensing to form clouds.  As moisture-laden air rises, the relative humidity increases until it saturates the air, at which time precipitation occurs.  If the uplift of air is due to large-scale atmospheric motion, then the precipitation is called large-scale, or dynamic.  This animation shows the large-scale precipitation for the whole globe from September 1, 2004, through September 5, 2004, during the period of Hurricane Frances in the western Atlantic Ocean and Typhoon Songda in the western Pacific Ocean.  Large-scale precipitation tends to be continuous and to come from decks of stratus clouds rather than from thunderstorms. || ",
            "hits": 39
        },
        {
            "id": 3202,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3202/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2005-07-27T11:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Global Atmospheric Water Vapor during Hurricane Frances (WMS)",
            "description": "Water vapor is a small but significant constituent of the atmosphere, warming the planet due to the greenhouse effect and condensing to form clouds which both warm and cool the Earth in different circumstances. Warm, moisture-laden air moving out from the tropics brings rainfall to the temperate zones. This animation shows the atmospheric water vapor for the whole globe from September 1, 2004, through September 5, 2004, during the period of Hurricane Frances in the western Atlantic Ocean and Typhoon Songda in the western Pacific Ocean. The band of water vapor over the tropics is the intertropical convergence zone, where converging trade winds and high temperatures force large amounts of water high into the atmosphere. Both Hurricane Frances and Typhoon Songda exhibit significant spiral bands of high water vapor. || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 3154,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3154/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2005-05-27T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Urban Signatures: Evaporation (WMS)",
            "description": "Big cities influence the environment around them. For example, urban areas are typically warmer than their surroundings. Cities are strikingly visible in computer models that simulate the Earth's land surface. This visualization shows evaporation rates predicted by the Land Information System (LIS) for a day in June 2001. Evaporation is lower in the cities because water tends to run off pavement and into drains, rather than being absorbed by soil and plants from which it later evaporates. Only part of the global computation is shown, focusing on the highly urbanized northeast corridor in the United States, including the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 20048,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20048/",
            "result_type": "Animation",
            "release_date": "2005-03-11T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Hurricane Heat Engine",
            "description": "TRMM provides a closer look at hurricanes using a unique combination of passive and active microwave instruments designed to peer inside cloud systems and measure rainfall. TRMM allows scientists to study the combustion process in the hurricane engine and relate this process to intensification or weakening.Hurricane Energy Process - As water vapor is evaporated from the warm ocean surface, it is forced upward in towering convective clouds in the eyewall and rain band regions of the storm. As the water vapor changes from a gas to a liquid (cloud water), latent heat is released. || ",
            "hits": 105
        },
        {
            "id": 3128,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3128/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2005-03-10T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Aqua/AIRS Water Vapor near Southern California",
            "description": "This visualization shows 3D volumetric water vapor data from the Aqua/Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument. As the camera moved down and around the data set, the low data values are faded out revealing only the highest concentrations of water vapor data. The color and opacity at each 3D voxel are driven by the water vapor data. The data set was obtained by Aqua on January 1, 2003. Only data from the sea level to about 10 km are shown.This visualization was created to support a JPL press release about how assimilated AIRS data is improving global atmospheric simulation model forecasts by about 6 hours (from about 5 days to about 5 days and 6 hours). || ",
            "hits": 17
        },
        {
            "id": 3129,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3129/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2005-03-10T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Aqua/AIRS Water Vapor near Southern California #2",
            "description": "This visualization shows 3D volumetric water vapor data from the Aqua/Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument. As the camera moved down and around the data set, the low data values are faded out revealing only the highest concentrations of water vapor data.This version (#2) ends with a slightly lower threshold than the original version - showing more of the highest water vapor concentrations.The color and opacity at each 3D voxel are driven by the water vapor data. The data set was obtained by Aqua on January 1, 2003. Only data from the sea level to about 10km are shown.This visualization was created to support a JPL press release about how assimilated AIRS data is improving global atmospheric simulation model forecasts by about 6 hours (from about 5 days to about 5 days and 6 hours). || ",
            "hits": 32
        },
        {
            "id": 3101,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3101/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2005-01-27T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Water vapor from new Microwave Limb Sounder on Aura (WMS)",
            "description": "Water vapor (H2O) in the atmosphere as measured by the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) instrument on NASA's Aura satellite. MLS can simultaneously measure several trace gases and ozone-destroying chemicals in the upper troposphere and photosphere. In this series of animations we present chlorine monoxide (ClO), hydrogen chloride (HCl), nitric acid (HNO3), ozone (O3), water vapor (H2O) and temperature measurements. These are 'first light' data taken when the MLS was operated for the first time. || ",
            "hits": 24
        },
        {
            "id": 3057,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3057/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2004-12-14T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "New Data from Aura's Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) Water Vapor",
            "description": "The Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) measures the chemistry of the lower stratosphere and upper troposphere. Measuring concentration of water vapor and other chemicals. Approximately 50 percent of the atmosphere's moisture lies within about 1.84 km of the earth's surface, and only a minute fraction of the total occurs above the tropopause. || ",
            "hits": 51
        },
        {
            "id": 3062,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3062/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2004-12-14T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "The Microwave Limb Sounder Observes the Lower Stratosphere and Upper Troposphere",
            "description": "MLS measures lower stratospheric temperature and concentrations of H2O, O3, ClO, BrO, HCl, OH, HO2, HNO3, HCN, and N2O, for their effects on (and diagnoses of) ozone depletion, transformations of greenhouse gases, and radiative forcing of climate change. || ",
            "hits": 46
        },
        {
            "id": 2901,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2901/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2004-02-12T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Atmospheric Water Vapor during the 1998 La Niña (WMS)",
            "description": "Water vapor is a small but significant constituent of the atmosphere, warming the planet due to the greenhouse effect and condensing to form clouds which both warm and cool the Earth in different circumstances.  A key feature of global atmospheric water vapor convection is the Intertropical Convergence Zone, the low pressure region within five degrees of the equator where the trade winds converge and solar heating of the atmosphere forces the water-laden air to rise in altitude, form clouds, and then precipitate as rain in the afternoon.  This visualization shows the global water vapor distribution in gray and white and the global precipitation in yellow every hour from August 30, 1998 to September 20, 1998.  The afternoon thunderstorms in the tropics are seen as a flashing yellow region that moves from east to west, following the sun.  This is a La Niña period, when the water to the west of South America is cooler than normal, forcing the atmosphere there to cool down and hold less water.  Strong east-to-west winds can be seen in this region, contributing to the high water vapor region that forms further to the west over southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Indonesia, causing increased humidity and rainfall in that region.  This data is from the Goddard Earth Modeling System, a coupled land-ocean-atmosphere model which uses earth and satellite-based observations to simulate the Earth's physical system during events such as La Niña. || ",
            "hits": 29
        },
        {
            "id": 2902,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2902/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2004-02-12T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Atmospheric Water Vapor during the 1997-1998 El Niño (WMS)",
            "description": "Water vapor is a small but significant constituent of the atmosphere, warming the planet due to the greenhouse effect and condensing to form clouds which both warm and cool the Earth in different circumstances.  A key feature of global atmospheric water vapor convection is the Intertropical Convergence Zone, the low pressure region within five degrees of the equator where the trade winds converge and solar heating of the atmosphere forces the water-laden air to rise in altitude, form clouds, and then precipitate as rain in the afternoon.  This visualization shows the global water vapor distribution in gray and white and the global precipitation in yellow every hour from December 20, 1997 to January 14, 1998.  The afternoon thunderstorms in the tropics are seen as a flashing yellow region that moves from east to west, following the sun.  This is an El Niño period, when the water to the west of South America is warmer than normal, allowing the atmosphere there to heat up and hold more water.  This region feeds a high band of water vapor reaching to the southeastern United States and causes increased humidity and rainfall in that region.  This data is from the Goddard Earth Modeling System, a coupled land-ocean-atmosphere model which uses earth and satellite-based observations to simulate the Earth's physical system during events such as El Niño. || ",
            "hits": 43
        },
        {
            "id": 2652,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2652/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2002-12-02T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Water Vapor in the Atmosphere",
            "description": "The motion of water vapor in the Earth's atmosphere collected from the GOES series of Earth-observing satellites. || Movie of water vapor data || a002652.00005_print.png (720x480) [442.3 KB] || wvapor_pre.jpg (320x240) [7.9 KB] || a002652.webmhd.webm (960x540) [8.7 MB] || wvapor.mpg (640x480) [16.1 MB] || 720x486_4x3_29.97p (720x486) [32.0 KB] || a002652.dv (720x480) [123.1 MB] || a002652_320.m1v (320x240) [4.9 MB] || ",
            "hits": 27
        },
        {
            "id": 2105,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2105/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2001-04-19T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Dramatic Evaporation of the Aral Sea",
            "description": "Disappearing Water: The Aral Sea Over Time (From 1973 to 2001) A time series is a powerful illustrative tool. Where in the case of Las Vegas we see the direct effects of people on the land, in the case of the Aral Sea, separating the countries of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, we see indirect, but no less dramatic effects on a different part of the world. The Aral Sea is actually not a sea at all. It is an immense lake, a body of fresh water, although that particular description of its contents might now be more a figure of speech than practical fact. In the last thirty years, more than sixty percent of the lake has disappeared. As you'll see in the visualization, the change over time is dramatic. In the 1970s, farmers and state offices opened significant diversions from the rivers supplying water to the lake, sending millions of gallons to irrigate cotton fields and rice paddies. So voluminous were these irrigation sluices that concentrations of salts and minerals began to rise in the shrinking body of water. That change in chemistry has led to staggering alterations in the lake's ecology, causing precipitous drops in the Aral's fish population. A secondary effect of this reduction in the Aral Sea's overall size is the rapid exposure of the lake bed. Powerful winds that blow across this part of Asia routinely pick up and deposit tens of thousands of tons of now exposed soil every year. This has not only contributed to significant reduction in breathable air quality for nearby residents, but also appreciably affected crop yields due to those heavily salt laden particles falling on arable land. In the following sequence of images, we see a series of Landsat scenes taken several years apart. As the years pass, we see the profound reduction in overall area covered by the Aral, and a commensurate increase in land area as the floor of the sea now lies exposed. || ",
            "hits": 137
        },
        {
            "id": 2117,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2117/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2001-04-19T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Dramatic Evaporation of the Aral Sea (With Dates)",
            "description": "Disappearing Water: The Aral Sea Over Time (From 1973 to 2001) A time series is a powerful illustrative tool. Where in the case of Las Vegas we see the direct effects of people on the land, in the case of the Aral Sea, separating the countries of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, we see indirect, but no less dramatic effects on a different part of the world. The Aral Sea is actually not a sea at all. It is an immense lake, a body of fresh water, although that particular description of its contents might now be more a figure of speech than practical fact. In the last thirty years, more than sixty percent of the lake has disappeared. As you'll see in the visualization, the change over time is dramatic. In the 1970s, farmers and state offices opened significant diversions from the rivers supplying water to the lake, sending millions of gallons to irrigate cotton fields and rice paddies. So voluminous were these irrigation sluices that concentrations of salts and minerals began to rise in the shrinking body of water. That change in chemistry has led to staggering alterations in the lake's ecology, causing precipitous drops in the Aral's fish population. A secondary effect of this reduction in the Aral Sea's overall size is the rapid exposure of the lake bed. Powerful winds that blow across this part of Asia routinely pick up and deposit tens of thousands of tons of now exposed soil every year. This has not only contributed to significant reduction in breathable air quality for nearby residents, but also appreciably affected crop yields due to those heavily salt laden particles falling on arable land. In the following sequence of images, we see a series of Landsat scenes taken several years apart. As the years pass, we see the profound reduction in overall area covered by the Aral, and a commensurate increase in land area as the floor of the sea now lies exposed. || ",
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            "release_date": "2001-02-26T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Lake Chad Evaporation 1963 to 1997",
            "description": "Located on the edge of the Sahara and bordering four countries—Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger—the immense area of this land locked lake has nearly disappeared in recent years. Persistent drought has caused the lake to drop from its former sixth place position in the list of world's largest lakes; it is now one tenth its former size.The basin of the lake is not naturally deep, so the surface area of the lake tended to spread out, keeping the total depth to little more 23 feet (7 meters). In recent years, rainfall patterns have begun to change, and tributaries to Lake Chad have not been refilling the basin as rapidly as they used to. The lush, productive flora and fauna fed by the wetlands of the shallow lake have suffered as a result.This has led to significant changes for various communities of people that live in the vicinity of the Lake. While for some the now exposed lake bed has enabled new land to be cultivated, much of the available fresh water that might have been used for irrigation is no longer dependable. As rainfall rates appear to be declining year after year, people living nearby develop even greater dependence on the lake, draining it even faster. || ",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2001-02-26T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Lake Chad Evaporation 1973 to 1987",
            "description": "Located on the edge of the Sahara and bordering four countries—Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger—the immense area of this land locked lake has nearly disappeared in recent years. Persistent drought has caused the lake to drop from its former sixth place position in the list of world's largest lakes; it is now one tenth its former size.The basin of the lake is not naturally deep, so the surface area of the lake tended to spread out, keeping the total depth to little more 23 feet (7 meters). In recent years, rainfall patterns have begun to change, and tributaries to Lake Chad have not been refilling the basin as rapidly as they used to. The lush, productive flora and fauna fed by the wetlands of the shallow lake have suffered as a result.This has led to significant changes for various communities of people that live in the vicinity of the Lake. While for some the now exposed lake bed has enabled new land to be cultivated, much of the available fresh water that might have been used for irrigation is no longer dependable. As rainfall rates appear to be declining year after year, people living nearby develop even greater dependence on the lake, draining it even faster. || ",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2001-02-26T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Lake Chad 2001",
            "description": "Sweep of Lake Chad, February 2001.Located on the edge of the Sahara and bordering four countries—Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger—the immense area of this land locked lake has nearly disappeared in recent years. Persistent drought has caused the lake to drop from its former sixth place position in the list of world's largest lakes; it is now one tenth its former size.The basin of the lake is not naturally deep, so the surface area of the lake tended to spread out, keeping the total depth to little more 23 feet (7 meters). In recent years, rainfall patterns have begun to change, and tributaries to Lake Chad have not been refilling the basin as rapidly as they used to. The lush, productive flora and fauna fed by the wetlands of the shallow lake have suffered as a result.This has led to significant changes for various communities of people that live in the vicinity of the Lake. While for some the now exposed lake bed has enabled new land to be cultivated, much of the available fresh water that might have been used for irrigation is no longer dependable. As rainfall rates appear to be declining year after year, people living nearby develop even greater dependence on the lake, draining it even faster. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1011/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "1999-11-10T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Nine Datasets on a Single Globe with Wipe Between Different Datasets",
            "description": "Single globe with wipe between different data sets. Sequence: Galileo, radiant energy, vegetation index anomalies, temperature, fires, aerosols, clouds, methane, water vapor, biosphere, Galileo || ",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "1999-11-10T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Nine Datasets on a Single Globe with Wipe Between Different Datasets Run as a Continuous Two Minute Loop",
            "description": "Single globe with wipe between different data sets run as a continuous 2 minute loop. Sequence: Galileo, radiant energy (Globe), vegetation index anomalies, temperature (globe), fires, aerosols (TOMS), clouds (GOES 9 and 10, Meteosat, and GMS-5), methane (UARS), water vapor (GOES 9 and 10, Meteosat, and GMS-5), biosphere (SeaStar/SeaWiFS), Galileo || ",
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            "id": 1014,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1014/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "1999-11-10T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Terra 9-Globe Dataset",
            "description": "Terra 9-globe data set animation: data sets (left to right, top to bottom): biosphere (SeaStar/SeaWiFS), water vapor (GOES 9 and 10, Meteosat, and GMS-5), temperature (Globe), fires (AVHRR), clouds (GOES 9 and 10, Meteosat, and GMS-5), methane (UARS), aerosols (TOMS), radiant energy (Globe), vegetation index anomalies (NDVI) || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 1016,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1016/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "1999-11-10T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Single Globe Water Vapor Dataset",
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            "id": 831,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/831/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "1999-04-09T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Water Vapor Measurements from HALOE (1992-1997)",
            "description": "An animated graph showing HALOE measurements of the water vapor amounts in the upper stratosphere, illustrating that it takes about 5 years for CFCs to reach the upper atmosphere.  Tropical water vapor changes slowly with seasonal cycles.  These changes, shown here as thick bands, were found to slowly ascend. These measurements tell us how fast the CFCs and other pollutants rise into the stratosphere. || ",
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