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The final frame represents global temperature anomalies in 2023. || 2023GISTEMP_Map.00899_print.jpg (1024x576) [138.7 KB] || 2023GISTEMP_Map.00899_searchweb.png (320x180) [66.6 KB] || 2023GISTEMP_Map.00899_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || 2023GISTEMP_Map.00899_web.png (320x180) [65.9 KB] || 2023GISTEMP_Map_HD.mp4 (1920x1080) [57.2 MB] || 3840x2160_16x9_30p (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || 2023GISTEMP_Map.mp4 (3840x2160) [114.3 MB] || earth_observations_5x3.hwshow || ", "hits": 1135 }, { "id": 5060, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5060/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2023-01-12T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2022", "description": "This color-coded map in Robinson projection displays a progression of changing global surface temperature anomalies. Normal temperatures are shown in white. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal temperatures are shown in blue. 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Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal temperatures are shown in blue. Normal temperatures are calculated over the 30 year baseline period 1951-1980. The final frame represents the 5 year global temperature anomalies from 2017-2021. 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Normal temperatures are the average over the 30 year baseline period 1951-1980. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower than normal temperatures are shown in blue. The final frame represents the 5 year global temperature anomalies from 2015-2019. Scale in degrees Celsius. || CelsiusRobinson_0889_print.jpg (1024x576) [111.8 KB] || CelsiusRobinson_0889_searchweb.png (320x180) [79.4 KB] || CelsiusRobinson_0889_thm.png (80x40) [7.1 KB] || CelsiusRobinson2019update_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [19.0 MB] || RobinsonCelsiusSequenceComposite (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || CelsiusRobinson2019update_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [3.7 MB] || Celsius_UHD_composite (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || GISSTEMP2019_Celsius_UHD_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [69.3 MB] || CelsiusRobinson2019update_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [238 bytes] || ", "hits": 411 }, { "id": 4746, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4746/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2019-08-08T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "June 2019 Monthly Global Temperature Anomalies", "description": "While many people in the continuous United States saw average temperatures in the month of June 2019, the average global temperature in June was 1.71 degrees F above the 20th-century average of 59.9 degrees. 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For more information on the GISTEMP, see the GISTEMP analysis website located at: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 4626, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4626/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2019-02-06T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2018", "description": "This color-coded map in Robinson projection displays a progression of changing global surface temperature anomalies from 1880 through 2018. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower then normal termperatures are shown in blue. The final frame represents the global temperatures 5-year averaged from 2014 through 2018. Scale in degree Celsius. || 2018HD_celsius_0900_print.jpg (1024x576) [126.0 KB] || 2018HD_celsius_0900_searchweb.png (320x180) [79.1 KB] || 2018HD_celsius_0900_thm.png (80x40) [7.4 KB] || 2018HD_celsius_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [20.7 MB] || celsius_robinson (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || 2018HD_celsius_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [4.2 MB] || celsius (5760x3240) [0 Item(s)] || celsius_composite (5760x3240) [0 Item(s)] || ", "hits": 233 }, { "id": 12828, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12828/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-01-19T05:00:00-05:00", "title": "2017 Global Temperature Visuals", "description": "Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2017 were the second warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, continuing the planet’s long-term warming trend.Globally averaged temperatures in 2017 were 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.90 degrees Celsius) warmer than the 1951 to 1980 mean. That is second only to global temperatures in 2016. Last year was the third consecutive year in which temperatures were more than 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) above late nineteenth-century levels.2017 was the warmest year that did not have an El Niño event.NASA’s temperature analyses incorporate surface temperature measurements from 6,300 weather stations, ship- and buoy-based observations of sea surface temperatures, and temperature measurements from Antarctic research stations.These raw measurements are analyzed using an algorithm that considers the varied spacing of temperature stations around the globe and urban heating effects that could skew the conclusions. These calculations produce the global average temperature deviations from the baseline period of 1951 to 1980.The full 2017 surface temperature data set and the complete methodology used to make the temperature calculation are available at: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ || ", "hits": 116 }, { "id": 4609, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4609/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2018-01-18T10:30:00-05:00", "title": "Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2017", "description": "This color-coded map in Robinson projection displays a progression of changing global surface temperature anomalies from 1880 through 2017. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower then normal termperatures are shown in blue. The final frame represents the global temperatures 5-year averaged from 2013 through 2017. 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Reds show areas that are warmer than normal and blue shows regions that are colder than normal. || Jan2016_GISTEMP_0298_print.jpg (1024x576) [64.8 KB] || Jan2016_GISTEMP_0298_searchweb.png (320x180) [44.7 KB] || Jan2016_GISTEMP_0298_thm.png (80x40) [4.6 KB] || composite (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || Jan2016_ArcticWarming.mp4 (1920x1080) [21.4 MB] || Jan2016_ArcticWarming.webm (1920x1080) [642.2 KB] || Jan2016_ArcticWarming.mp4.hwshow [187 bytes] || ", "hits": 221 }, { "id": 4441, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4441/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2016-03-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Global Temperature Anomalies from February 2016", "description": "This visual of the February 2016 monthly GISTEMP shows temperatures that are warmer than normal in red and colder than normal in blue. || EuropeNorthAmerica_Feb2016_GISTEMP_0290_print.jpg (1024x576) [66.5 KB] || EuropeNorthAmerica_Feb2016_GISTEMP_0290_searchweb.png (320x180) [45.2 KB] || EuropeNorthAmerica_Feb2016_GISTEMP_0290_thm.png (80x40) [4.6 KB] || Feb2016_withOverlays (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || Feb2016_GISTEMPanomaly.mp4 (1920x1080) [21.1 MB] || Feb2016_GISTEMPanomaly.webm (1920x1080) [648.0 KB] || Feb2016_GISTEMPanomaly.m4v (640x360) [1.0 MB] || Feb2016_GISTEMPanomaly.mp4.hwshow [188 bytes] || ", "hits": 125 }, { "id": 12134, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12134/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-01-20T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Gavin Schmidt on 2015's Record Global Temperature", "description": "Gavin Schmidt, Director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, discusses the results of their analyses of 2015 global temperature data. 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The December 2015 temperatures are compared to a baseline of the 1951-1980 average temperature. 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Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower then normal termperatures are shown in blue. The final frame represents the global temperatures 5-year averaged from 2011 through 2015. 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The global average temperature has increased about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degrees Celsius) since 1880, with most of that warming occurring during the last three to four decades.The warming trend is largely driven by the increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, caused by human emissions. || ", "hits": 81 }, { "id": 11730, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11730/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-01-16T10:29:00-05:00", "title": "Instagram: 2014 Warmest Year On Record", "description": "The year 2014 now ranks as the warmest on record since 1880, according to an analysis by NASA scientists.Nine of the 10 warmest years since modern records began have now occurred since 2000, according to a global temperature analysis by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. || ", "hits": 20 }, { "id": 4252, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4252/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-01-16T00:30:00-05:00", "title": "Five-Year Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2014", "description": "This color-coded map in Robinson projection displays a progression of changing global surface temperature anomalies from 1880 through 2014. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower then normal termperatures are shown in blue. The final frame represents the global temperatures 5-year averaged from 2010 through 2014. || GISTEMP_2014update.0905_print.jpg (1024x576) [122.2 KB] || GISTEMP_2014update.0905_searchweb.png (320x180) [74.5 KB] || GISTEMP_2014update.0905_thm.png (80x40) [6.7 KB] || composite (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || 2014_update_robinson_composite.mp4 (1920x1080) [36.8 MB] || 2014_update_robinson_composite.webm (1920x1080) [3.5 MB] || ", "hits": 96 }, { "id": 4254, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4254/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-01-16T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Global Temperature Anomalies from November 2014", "description": "This visualization of global surface temperatures from November 2014 starts with a local view of the United States and then zooms out to see the global color-coded map. Blue represents colder then normal temperatures and red represents warmer. || Nov2014_Robinson_zoomout_composite_0001_print.jpg (1024x576) [98.1 KB] || Nov2014_Robinson_zoomout_composite_0001_searchweb.png (320x180) [74.4 KB] || Nov2014_Robinson_zoomout_composite_0001_thm.png (80x40) [6.0 KB] || robinson_composite (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || Nov2014monthly_robinsonzoomout.mp4 (1920x1080) [10.9 MB] || Nov2014monthly_robinsonzoomout.webm (1920x1080) [1.3 MB] || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 4255, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4255/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-01-16T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "2014 Global Temperature Anomalies: United States to Global view", "description": "This visualization of annual global temperature anomalies from 2014 starts with a local view of the United States and then zooms out to the global color-coded map. Blue represents colder then normal temperatures and red represents warmer then normal temperatures. || US_Global_pullout_2014GISTEMP_0001_print.jpg (1024x576) [105.0 KB] || US_Global_pullout_2014GISTEMP_0001_searchweb.png (320x180) [75.7 KB] || US_Global_pullout_2014GISTEMP_0001_thm.png (80x40) [6.1 KB] || composite (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || Annual2014GISSTEMP_US2Global.mp4 (1920x1080) [11.2 MB] || Annual2014GISSTEMP_US2Global.webm (1920x1080) [1.3 MB] || ", "hits": 87 }, { "id": 11627, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11627/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-08-22T14:55:00-04:00", "title": "Arctic Sea Ice Live Shot 2014", "description": "Canned Interviews and B-roll for Arctic Sea Ice 2014 live shot campaign. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 4152, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4152/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-03-19T14:40:00-04:00", "title": "Global Temperature Anomalies from January 2014", "description": "Residents of the eastern United States know that the temperature was colder then the average temperature. This visual of the GISTEMP anomalies for January of 2014 show the United States and then zooms out to show the global picture. Temperature anomalies indicate how much warmer or colder it is than normal for a particular place and time. For the GISS analysis, normal always means the average over the 30-year period 1951-1980 for that place and time of year. For more information on the GISTEMP, see the GISTEMP analysis website located at: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 4135, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4135/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-01-21T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Five-Year Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2013", "description": "NASA scientists say 2013 tied with 2009 and 2006 for the seventh warmest year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures. With the exception of 1998, the 10 warmest years in the 134-year record all have occurred since 2000, with 2010 and 2005 ranking as the warmest years on record.NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, which analyzes global surface temperatures on an ongoing basis, released an updated report Tuesday on temperatures around the globe in 2013. The comparison shows how Earth continues to experience temperatures warmer than those measured several decades ago. The average temperature in 2013 was 58.3 degrees Fahrenheit (14.6 degrees Celsius), which is 1.1 °F (0.6 °C) warmer than the mid-20th century baseline. The average global temperature has risen about 1.4 °F (0.8 °C) since 1880, according to the new analysis. Exact rankings for individual years are sensitive to data inputs and analysis methods.\"Long-term trends in surface temperatures are unusual and 2013 adds to the evidence for ongoing climate change,\" GISS climatologist Gavin Schmidt said. \"While one year or one season can be affected by random weather events, this analysis shows the necessity for continued, long-term monitoring.\"Scientists emphasize that weather patterns always will cause fluctuations in average temperatures from year to year, but the continued increases in greenhouse gas levels in Earth's atmosphere are driving a long-term rise in global temperatures. Each successive year will not necessarily be warmer than the year before, but with the current level of greenhouse gas emissions, scientists expect each successive decade to be warmer than the previous.Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps heat and plays a major role in controlling changes to Earth's climate. It occurs naturally and also is emitted by the burning of fossil fuels for energy. Driven by increasing man-made emissions, the level of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere presently is higher than at any time in the last 800,000 years. The carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere was about 285 parts per million in 1880, the first year in the GISS temperature record. By 1960, the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, measured at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, was about 315 parts per million. This measurement peaked last year at more than 400 parts per million.While the world experienced relatively warm temperatures in 2013, the continental United States experienced the 42nd warmest year on record, according to GISS analysis. For some other countries, such as Australia, 2013 was the hottest year on record.The temperature analysis produced at GISS is compiled from weather data from more than 1,000 meteorological stations around the world, satellite observations of sea-surface temperature, and Antarctic research station measurements, taking into account station history and urban heat island effects. Software is used to calculate the difference between surface temperature in a given month and the average temperature for the same place from 1951 to 1980. This three-decade period functions as a baseline for the analysis. It has been 38 years since the recording of a year of cooler than average temperatures.The GISS temperature record is one of several global temperature analyses, along with those produced by the Met Office Hadley Centre in the United Kingdom and NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. These three primary records use slightly different methods, but overall, their trends show close agreement.Additional commentary on the 2013 temperature anomaly is provided by Dr. James Hansen of Columbia University at: http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2014/20140121_Temperature2013.pdfThe GISTEMP analysis website is located at: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ || ", "hits": 133 }, { "id": 11377, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11377/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-11-08T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Ask A Climate Scientist - Extreme Weather and Global Warming", "description": "Is the frequency of extreme weather events a sign that global warming is gaining pace and exceeding predictions?Bill Patzert, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, says the evidence that extreme weather events have been more frequent in recent years is definitely to the contrary. \"The United States has always had extreme weather. We look back on our weather history. It's been punishing: floods, droughts, tornadoes, hurricanes, great forest fires. \"Is global warming happening? No doubt about it. We're living in a warmer world, we're living in a melting world, sea levels are rising. Now, direct evidence of the footprint or the fingerprint of global warming: we're seeing more frequent, more intense, and longer lasting heat waves. As far as hurricanes, tornadoes, forest fires, floods, and drought, the evidence is definitely not in. The consensus among almost all scientists is that it's a small fingerprint, not a large footprint. \"But what is true is that in this country, in the United States, we live in many areas with great risk to drought, to tornadoes, to hurricanes, and so part of the dialogue is not only extreme weather and global warming, but is the amount of risk we can tolerate. Now looking to the future, global change, global warming - it definitely is accelerating and it will have an impact on extreme weather, but at this point, not much.\" See more of NASA's answers to your questions on climate science. || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 30477, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30477/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-11-01T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Long-term Global Warming Trend Continues", "description": "The world is getting warmer. This map shows global, annual temperature anomalies from 1880 to 2014 based on analysis conducted by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). Red and blue shades show how much warmer or cooler a given area was compared to an averaged base period from 1951 to 1980. The graph shows yearly, global GISS temperature anomaly data from 1880 to 2014. Though there are minor variations from year to year, the general trend shows rapid warming in the past few decades, with the last decade being the warmest. To conduct its analysis, GISS uses publicly available data from approximately 6300 meteorological stations around the world; ship-based and satellite observations of sea surface temperature; and Antarctic research station measurements. These three datasets are loaded into a computer analysis program that calculates trends in temperature anomalies relative to the annual average temperature from 1951 to 1980. Generally, warming is greater over land than over the oceans because water is slower to absorb and release heat. Warming may also differ substantially within specific landmasses and ocean basins. || ", "hits": 266 }, { "id": 11380, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11380/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-10-21T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Ask A Climate Scientist – a Pause in Warming?", "description": "Is there a pause in global warming? This question was posed to Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Josh Willis as part of NASA's Ask A Climate Scientist campaign.Josh gets asked a lot if there has been a pause in global warming, because temperatures aren't increasing as fast as they were a decade ago. No, he says, global warming is definitely still increasing. We see more heat being trapped in the oceans, and sea levels are rising. Look at the sea level record for the last decade. It's going up like gangbusters, hasn't slowed down. There's not really a pause in global warming. Sometimes there's natural fluctuations and we warm up a little faster in one decade and a little slower in another decade, but global warming, human-caused climate change? Josh says, \"that's definitely going right on up in there. We haven't slowed down at all.\" See more of NASA's answers to your questions on climate science. || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 11376, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11376/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-09-27T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "IPCC Projections of Temperature and Precipitation in the 21st Century", "description": "New data visualizations from the NASA Center for Climate Simulation and NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio show how climate models – those used in the new report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – estimate how temperature and precipitation patterns could change throughout the 21st century. For the IPCC's Physical Science Basis and Summary for Policymakers reports, scientists referenced an international climate modeling effort to study how the Earth might respond to four different scenarios of how much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases would be emitted into the atmosphere throughout the 21st century. The Summary for Policymakers, the first official piece of the group's Fifth Assessment Report, was released Fri., Sept. 27.That modeling effort, called the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5), includes dozens of climate models from institutions around the world, including from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.To produce visualizations that show temperature and precipitation changes similar to those included in the IPCC report, the NASA Center for Climate Simulation calculated mean model results for each of the four emissions scenarios. The final products are visual representations how much temperature and precipitation patterns would change through 2100 compared to the historical average from the end of the 20th century. The changes shown compare the model projections to the average temperature and precipitation benchmarks observed from 1971-2000. This baseline is different from the IPCC report, which uses a 1986-2005 baseline. Because the reference period from 1986-2005 was slightly warmer than 1971-2000, the visualizations are slightly different than those in the report, even though the same model data is used. || ", "hits": 293 }, { "id": 4030, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4030/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-01-15T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Five-Year Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2012", "description": "This color-coded map displays a progression of changing global surface temperatures anomalies from 1880 through 2012. Higher than normal temperatures are shown in red and lower then normal temperatures are shown in blue. Global surface temperature in 2012 was +0.55 || ", "hits": 504 }, { "id": 3901, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3901/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-01-20T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Five-Year Average Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2011", "description": "The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880.The finding sustains a trend that has seen the 21st century experience nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record. NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York released an analysis of how temperatures around the globe in 2011 compared to the average global temperature from the mid-20th century. The comparison shows how Earth continues to experience higher temperatures than several decades ago. The average temperature around the globe in 2011 was 0.92 degrees F (0.51 C) higher than the mid-20th century baseline.\"We know the planet is absorbing more energy than it is emitting,\" said GISS director James E. Hansen. \"So we are continuing to see a trend toward higher temperatures. Even with the cooling effects of a strong La Ni?a influence and low solar activity for the past several years, 2011 was one of the 10 warmest years on record.\"The difference between 2011 and the warmest year in the GISS record (2010) is 0.22 degrees F (0.12 C). This underscores the emphasis scientists put on the long-term trend of global temperature rise as opposed to year-to-year variations. Because of the large natural variability of climate, scientists do not expect annual temperatures to rise consistently each year. However, they do expect a continuing temperature rise over decades. The first 11 years of the 21st century experienced notably higher temperatures compared to the middle and late 20th century, Hansen said.For more information on the GISS temperature analysis, visit http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp. || ", "hits": 167 }, { "id": 10717, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10717/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-02-02T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Temperature Change", "description": "Animation of GISS temperature change data from 1880-2009. || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 3817, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3817/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-01-14T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Five-Year Average Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2010", "description": "Groups of scientists from several major institutions - NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the Japanese Meteorological Agency and the Met Office Hadley Centre in the United Kingdom - tally data collected by temperature monitoring stations spread around the world and make an announcement about whether the previous year was a comparatively warm or cool year. This analysis concerns only temperature anomalies, not absolute temperature. Temperature anomalies are computed relative to the base period 1951-1980. The reason to work with anomalies, rather than absolute temperature is that absolute temperature varies markedly in short distances, while monthly or annual temperature anomalies are representative of a much larger region. Indeed, we have shown (Hansen and Lebedeff, 1987) that temperature anomalies are strongly correlated out to distances of the order of 1000 km. For more information about this dataset, see http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp NASA's announcement this year - that 2010 ties 2005 as the warmest year in the 131-year instrumental record - made headlines. But, how much does the ranking of a single year matter?Not all that much, emphasizes James Hansen, the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City. In the GISS analysis, for example, 2010 differed from 2005 by less than 0.01°C (0.018°F), a difference so small that the temperatures of these two years are indistinguishable, given the uncertainty of the calculation.Meanwhile, the third warmest year - 2009 - is so close to 1998, 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2007, with the maximum difference between the years being a mere 0.03°C, that all six years are virtually tied.Even for a near record-breaking year like 2010 the broader context is more important than a single year. \"Certainly, it is interesting that 2010 was so warm despite the presence of a La Niña and a remarkably inactive sun, two factors that have a cooling influence on the planet, but far more important than any particular year's ranking are the decadal trends,\" Hansen said. || ", "hits": 98 }, { "id": 3738, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3738/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-07-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "2007 Greenland Melt Season Study", "description": "The Greenland ice sheet has been the focus of attention recently because of increasing melt in response to regional climate change. Several different remote sensing data products have been used to study surface and near-surface melt characteristics of the Greenland ice sheet for the 2007 melt season when record melt extent and runoff occurred. Here, MODIS daily land surface temperature and a special diurnal melt product, derived from QuikSCAT scatterometer data, measure the evolution of melt on the ice sheet. Although these daily products are sensitive to different geophysical features, they show excellent correspondence when surface melt is present. This animation displays these two geophysical data products of the Greenland ice sheet side-by-side, showing MODIS data on the left side and QuikSCAT data on the right. The 2007 melt season is shown twice. In the first sequence, MODIS surface temperature is compared with several categories of QuikSCAT melt between March 15th and October 13th, 2010. During this sequence, active melt detected by QuikSCAT is shown in light blue, reduced melt is medium blue, and completed melt is dark blue. For the MODIS, surface temperature is shown with the color scale — red indicates a surface temperature greater than -1 degree Celsius. As MODIS shows warmer surface temperature as the melt season progresses, QuikSCAT consistently identifies the corresponding melt.In the second sequence, the MODIS and QuikSCAT melted regions of the ice sheet were accumulated during the melt season. QuikSCAT captures melt earlier, and then melt is detected by MODIS shortly afterward at a higher spatial resolution. The final result (frame) shows the seasonal melt extent which was consistently delineated by both sensors. The cross-verification of these independent measurements, by two different instruments on different satellites, provides a higher confidence level in the melt observations, reducing the uncertainty in climate assessment of Greenland melt. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 10605, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10605/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-07-02T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Know Your Earth: Earth Observing Fleet Studies Climate", "description": "This animated video shares a series of fascinating facts about how climate change affects oceans, land, the atmosphere, and ice sheets around the world. With the help of an animated astronaut touring the Earth, the video explains how NASA's Earth observing satellite fleet enables scientists to gather accurate data and understand those changes.For complete transcript, click here. || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_youtube_hq.02196_print.jpg (1024x576) [105.9 KB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_youtube_hq_web.png (320x180) [281.3 KB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_youtube_hq_thm.png (80x40) [17.6 KB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_appletv.webmhd.webm (960x540) [41.1 MB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_appletv.m4v (960x540) [99.6 MB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_prores.mov (1280x720) [2.9 GB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_Final.wmv (1280x720) [89.9 MB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [105.0 MB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [33.5 MB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth.m4v (320x240) [18.1 MB] || G2010-072_Know_Your_Earth_SVS.mpg (512x288) [27.1 MB] || ", "hits": 62 }, { "id": 3667, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3667/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-06-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Ship Tracks Reveal Pollution's Effects on Clouds", "description": "NASA's MODIS satellite instrument is revealing that humans may be changing our planet's brightness. Pollution in the atmosphere creates smaller, brighter cloud droplets that reflect more sunlight back to space and may have a slight impact on global warming.This narrated visualization illustrates how we can study the effect against a clean backdrop by looking for zones of pollution in otherwise pristine air - in this case the North Pacific Ocean near the Aleutian islands. On an overcast day, the clouds look uniform. However, MODIS' sesor reveals a different picture - long skinny trails of brighter clouds hidden within. As ships travel across the ocean, pollution in the ships' exhaust create more cloud drops that are smaller in size, resulting in even brighter clouds. On clear days, ships can actually create new clouds. Water vapor condenses around the particles of pollution, forming streamers of clouds as the ships travel on. The ship tracks themselves are too small to impact global temperatures, but they help us understand how larger pollution sources such as industrial sites or agricultural burning might be changing clouds on a larger scale. || ", "hits": 79 }, { "id": 3720, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3720/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-05-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Annual Gradient Melt over Greenland 1979 Through 2009", "description": "The ice sheet melt extent is a daily (or every-other-day, prior to August 1987) estimate of the spatial extent of wet snow on the Greenland ice sheet derived from passive microwave satellite brightness temperature characteristics. This indicator of melt on each area of the ice sheet for each day of observation is physically based on the changes in microwave emission characteristics observable in data. Although it is not a direct measure of the snow wetness, it is representative of the amount of ice loss due to seasonal melting that occurs on the Greenland ice sheet.This animation is a time series showing the regions of the Greenland ice sheet where melt occurred for more than three days between May 1st and September 30th for each year. Areas in which melt occurred for longer time periods are shown in a darker red while those areas melted for fewer days are shown in lighter red. Areas melted three or less days during the year are not colored. || ", "hits": 40 }, { "id": 3721, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3721/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-05-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Annual Accumulated Melt over Greenland 1979 through 2009", "description": "The ice sheet melt extent is a daily (or every-other-day, prior to August, 1987) estimate of the spatial extent of wet snow on the Greenland ice sheet derived from passive microwave satellite brightness temperature characteristics. This indicator of melt on each area of the ice sheet for each day of observation is physically based on the changes in microwave emission characteristics observable in data.", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 3687, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3687/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-03-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Changes from NASA GSFC GRACE Mascon Solutions with Banded Color Scale", "description": "Luthcke, S.B., D.D. Rowlands, J.J. McCarthy, A. Arendt, T. Sabaka, J.P. Boy, F.G. Lemoine, \"Recent Changes of the Earth's Land Ice from GRACE, \" presented at 2009 Fall AGU, H13G-02 (693337), Dec. 14, 2009.The mass changes of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) are computed from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) inter-satellite range-rate observations for the period April 5, 2003 - July 25, 2009. The mass of the GIS has been computed at 10-day intervals and 200km spatial resolution from a regional high-resolution mascon solution (Luthcke and others, 2008 and 2006). The animation shows the change in mass referenced from April 5, 2003. The spatial variation in surface mass is shown in centimeters equivalent height of water. The time variation of the GIS mass is shown in the x-y plot insert with units of Gigatons.Corresponding author:Scott B. LuthckeNASA GSFCPlanetary Geodynamics Laboratory, Code 698Scott.B.Luthcke@nasa.gov || ", "hits": 13 }, { "id": 3684, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3684/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-03-03T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Five-Year Average Global Temperature Anomalies from 1881 to 2009 for Science On a Sphere", "description": "Each year, scientists at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year in the 130 years of global instrumental temperature records, in the surface temperature analysis of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). The Southern Hemisphere set a record as the warmest year for that half of the world. Global mean temperature, was 0.57°C (1.0°F) warmer than climatology (the 1951-1980 base period). Southern Hemisphere mean temperature was 0.49°C (0.88°F) warmer than in the period of climatology. The global record warm year, in the period of near-global instrumental measurements (since the late 1800s), was 2005. This color-coded map displays a long term progression of changing global surface temperatures, from 1881 to 2009. Dark red indicates the greatest warming and dark blue indicates the greatest cooling. For more information on the data used to generate these images, please see http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp. || ", "hits": 90 }, { "id": 3674, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3674/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-01-27T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Five-Year Average Global Temperature Anomalies from 1881 to 2009", "description": "Each year, scientists at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year in the 130 years of global instrumental temperature records, in the surface temperature analysis of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). The Southern Hemisphere set a record as the warmest year for that half of the world. Global mean temperature, was 0.57°C (1.0°F) warmer than climatology (the 1951-1980 base period). Southern Hemisphere mean temperature was 0.49°C (0.88°F) warmer than in the period of climatology. The global record warm year, in the period of near-global instrumental measurements (since the late 1800s), was 2005. This color-coded map displays a long term progression of changing global surface temperatures, from 1881 to 2009. Dark red indicates the greatest warming and dark blue indicates the greatest cooling. For more information on the data used to generate these images, please see http://giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 3675, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3675/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-01-26T14:00:00-05:00", "title": "Ten-Year Average Global Temperature Anomaly Image from 2000 to 2009", "description": "There is a high degree of interannual (year-to-year) and decadal variability in both global and hemispheric temperatures. Underlying this variability, however, is a long-term warming trend that has become strong and persistent over the past three decades. The long-term trends are more apparent when temperature is averaged over several years. This image represents the 10 year average temperatures anomaly data from 2000 through 2009. || ", "hits": 75 }, { "id": 10557, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10557/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-01-21T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "2009 Global Temperature Package: Year Tied as Second Hottest", "description": "Reporters package style video about the new 2009 global temperature data. Scientists at the Goddard Institute for Space Science found that 2009 was tied as the second hottest year ever recorded.For complete transcript, click here. || G2010-004_Global_Temp_2009-H.264_for_iPod_video_and_iPhone_640x480.00302_print.jpg (1024x576) [104.3 KB] || G2010-004_Global_Temp_2009-H.264_for_iPod_video_and_iPhone_640x480_web.png (320x180) [104.3 KB] || G2010-004_Global_Temp_2009-H.264_for_iPod_video_and_iPhone_640x480_thm.png (80x40) [12.0 KB] || G2010-004_Global_Temp_2009-H.264_for_Apple_TV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [37.9 MB] || G2010-004_Global_Temp_2009_1280x720_ProRes.mov (1280x720) [2.6 GB] || G2010-004_Global_Temp_2009-H.264_1280x720_@30fps.mov (1280x720) [85.5 MB] || G2010-004_Global_Temp_2009-720_H.264_QT_for_16x9_Youtube.mov (1280x720) [37.9 MB] || G2010-004_Global_Temp_2009-H.264_for_Apple_TV.m4v (960x720) [92.0 MB] || G2010-004_Global_Temp_2009-H.264_for_iPod_video_and_iPhone_640x480.m4v (640x360) [27.3 MB] || G2010-004_Global_Temp_2009-MPEG1_512x288.mpg (512x288) [23.2 MB] || G2010-004_Global_Temp_2009-H.264_for_iPod_video_and_iPhone_320x240_QVGA.m4v (320x180) [10.8 MB] || G2010-004_Global_Temp_2009_WMVHQ_346x260_16_9.wmv (346x260) [25.2 MB] || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 3672, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3672/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-01-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "28 Year Arctic Temperature Trend", "description": "Scientists who study the Arctic region consider this area to be an early indicator of global warming, because changes in this area are amplified by the high albedo of the snow and ice. This animation depicts the 28-year surface temperature trend over the Arctic region determined from data collected between August 1981 and July 2009. The warming and cooling regions are shown in steps of .02 degrees Kelvin per year from the regions of greatest change to the areas of least change. Blue hues indicate cooling regions; red hues depict warming. The neutral region of -.02 to +.02 is shown in white. Light regions indicate less change while darker regions indicate more. The temperature scale used ranges from -0.42 to +0.42 degrees Kelvin, although the minimum data value is -0.1825 degrees Kelvin per year while the maximum value is 0.4185. || ", "hits": 127 }, { "id": 3676, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3676/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-01-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "28 Year Arctic Winter Seasonal Temperature Trend", "description": "The Arctic region has been an area of scientific interest because it is expected that global warming signals will be amplified in the region because of ice-albedo feedback effect. Such effect is associated with the high albedo of snow and sea ice covered areas compared to that of ice free ocean and land areas. This animation depicts the 28-year winter seasonal surface temperature trend over the Arctic region determined from data collected during the months of December, January and February between 1981 and 2009. In this animation, the warming and cooling regions are revealed in steps of .02 degrees change per year starting with the regions of greatest change and progressing to the areas of least change. Blue hues indicate cooling regions while red hues depict warming. The neutral region of -.01 to +.01 degrees is shown in white. Brighter regions indicate greater temperature change while light regions indicate less. On the left side, the colarbar shows cooling temperatures ranging from -0.42 to zero degrees Kelvin, while the colorbar on the right shows warming temperatures ranging from zero to +0.42 degrees Kelvin per year. A moving bar beside each colorbar indicates the range of data values being displayed. || ", "hits": 151 }, { "id": 3677, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3677/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-01-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "28 Year Arctic Spring Seasonal Temperature Trend", "description": "The Arctic region has been an area of scientific interest because it is expected that global warming signals will be amplified in the region because of ice-albedo feedback effect. Such effect is associated with the high albedo of snow and sea ice covered areas compared to that of ice free ocean and land areas. This animation depicts the 28-year spring seasonal surface temperature trend over the Arctic region determined from data collected during the months of March, April and May between 1982 and 2009.In this animation, the warming and cooling regions are revealed in steps of .02 degrees change per year starting with the regions of greatest change and progressing to the areas of least change. Blue hues indicate cooling regions while red hues depict warming. The neutral region of -.01 to +.01 degrees is shown in white. Brighter regions indicate greater temperature change while light regions indicate less. On the left side, the colarbar shows cooling temperatures ranging from -0.42 to zero degrees Kelvin, while the colorbar on the right shows warming temperatures ranging from zero to +0.42 degrees per year. An animated bar beside each colorbar brackets the range of data values being displayed. || ", "hits": 49 }, { "id": 3678, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3678/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-01-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "28 Year Arctic Summer Seasonal Temperature Trend", "description": "The Arctic region has been an area of scientific interest because it is expected that global warming signals will be amplified in the region because of ice-albedo feedback effect. Such effect is associated with the high albedo of snow and sea ice covered areas compared to that of ice free ocean and land areas. This animation depicts the 28-year summer seasonal surface temperature trend over the Arctic region determined from data collected during the months of June, July and August between 1982 and 2009.In this animation, the warming and cooling regions are revealed in steps of .02 degrees change per year starting with the regions of greatest change and progressing to the areas of least change. Blue hues indicate cooling regions while red hues depict warming. The neutral region of -.01 to +.01 degrees is shown in white. Brighter regions indicate greater temperature change while light regions indicate less. On the left side, the colarbar shows cooling temperatures ranging from -0.42 to zero degrees Kelvin, while the colorbar on the right shows warming temperatures ranging from zero to +0.42 degrees per year. An animated bar beside each colorbar brackets the range of data values being displayed. || ", "hits": 67 }, { "id": 3679, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3679/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-01-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "28 Year Arctic Autumn Seasonal Temperature Trend", "description": "The Arctic region has been an area of scientific interest because it is expected that global warming signals will be amplified in the region because of ice-albedo feedback effect. Such effect is associated with the high albedo of snow and sea ice covered areas compared to that of ice free ocean and land areas. This animation depicts the 28-year autumn seasonal surface temperature trend over the Arctic region determined from data collected during the months of September, October and November between 1981 and 2008.In this animation, the warming and cooling regions are revealed in steps of .02 degrees change per year starting with the regions of greatest change and progressing to the areas of least change. Blue hues indicate cooling regions while red hues depict warming. The neutral region of -.01 to +.01 degrees is shown in white. Brighter regions indicate greater temperature change while light regions indicate less. On the left side, the colarbar shows cooling temperatures ranging from -0.42 to zero degrees Kelvin, while the colorbar on the right shows warming temperatures ranging from zero to +0.42 degrees per year. An animated bar beside each colorbar brackets the range of data values being displayed. || ", "hits": 153 }, { "id": 3670, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3670/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-12-17T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Poster of the Jakobshavn Glacier Calving Front Recession from 1851 to 2009", "description": "Jakobshavn Isbrae is located on the west coast of Greenland at Latitude 69 N. The ice front, where the glacier calves into the sea, receded more than 40 km between 1850 and 2006. Between 1850 and 1964 the ice front retreated at a steady rate of about 0.3 km/yr, after which it occupied approximately the same location until 2001, when the ice front began to recede again, but far more rapidly at about 3 km/yr. As more ice moves from glaciers on land into the ocean, it causes a rise in sea level. Jakobshavn Isbrae is Greenland's largest outlet glacier, draining 6.5 percent of Greenland's ice sheet area. The ice stream's speed-up and near-doubling of the ice flow from land into the ocean has increased the rate of sea level rise by about .06 millimeters (about .002 inches) per year, or roughly 4 percent of the 20th century rate of sea level increase. This may be due in part to the numerous melt lakes visible here near the top of the image. These are believed to lubricate the layer between the ice sheet and bedrock, causing the ice to flow faster toward the sea. See an animation illustrating this acceleration in item #10153. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 3668, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3668/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-12-13T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Atmospheric Black Carbon Density", "description": "Black carbon, or soot, is formed from the burning of fossil fuels and biomass and lingers in the atmosphere for days or weeks before being deposited on the land or ocean. The transport and deposition of black carbon has become an important topic related to climate change since it can absorb sunlight and cause an increase in temperature on ice surfaces or in the atmosphere. The movement of black carbon in the atmosphere can be simulated by including existing black carbon data sets in a global model of the atmosphere. This animation shows the simulation of over three months of atmospheric black carbon production and movement from the Goddard Chemistry Aerosol and Transport (GOCART) model, which is driven by output of the GEOS5 global atmosphere simulation. Note the production of black carbon from industrialization in China and biomass burning in Africa, as well as the movement of black carbon across the oceans of the world. || ", "hits": 144 }, { "id": 3663, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3663/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-12-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Changes from NASA GSFC GRACE Mascon Solutions", "description": "Luthcke, S.B., D.D. Rowlands, J.J. McCarthy, A. Arendt, T. Sabaka, J.P. Boy, F.G. Lemoine, \"Recent Changes of the Earth's Land Ice from GRACE, \" presented at 2009 Fall AGU, H13G-02 (693337), Dec. 14, 2009.The mass changes of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) are computed from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) inter-satellite range-rate observations for the period April 5, 2003 - July 25, 2009. The mass of the GIS has been computed at 10-day intervals and 200km spatial resolution from a regional high-resolution mascon solution (Luthcke and others, 2008 and 2006). The animation shows the change in mass referenced from April 5, 2003. The spatial variation in surface mass is shown in centimeters equivalent height of water. The time variation of the GIS mass is shown in the x-y plot insert with units of Gigatons.Corresponding author:Scott B. LuthckeNASA GSFCPlanetary Geodynamics Laboratory, Code 698Scott.B.Luthcke@nasa.gov || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 3673, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3673/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-12-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Poster of Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Changes from NASA GSFC GRACE Mascon Solutions", "description": "Luthcke, S.B., D.D. Rowlands, J.J. McCarthy, A. Arendt, T. Sabaka, J.P. Boy, F.G. Lemoine, \"Recent Changes of the Earth's Land Ice from GRACE, \" presented at 2009 Fall AGU, H13G-02 (693337), Dec. 14, 2009.The mass changes of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) are computed from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) inter-satellite range-rate observations for the period April 5, 2003 - July 25, 2009. The mass of the GIS has been computed at 10-day intervals and 200 km spatial resolution from a regional high-resolution mascon solution (Luthcke and others, 2008 and 2006). The poster shows the change in mass during February, April, July and October from 2003 through 2009 as referenced from April 5, 2003. The spatial variation in surface mass is shown in centimeters equivalent height of water. The chart shown in the upper left corner presents total ice loss in Greenland over the same time period measured in gigatons. Corresponding author:Scott B. LuthckeNASA GSFCPlanetary Geodynamics Laboratory, Code 698Scott.B.Luthcke@nasa.gov || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 10530, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10530/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-11-23T23:00:00-05:00", "title": "Taking Earth's Temperature", "description": "The Earth is a complex system with a unique climate. Many scientists are concerned that Earth's climate is changing at an unprecedented rate. Each January, scientists at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies release temperature data for the previous year. How do scientists study how warm our home planet is, and how do they determine what factors affect its climate? This short video explores the tools NASA scientists use to take Earth's temperature.For complete transcript, click here. || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009_640x480.00652_print.jpg (1024x768) [99.0 KB] || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009_640x480_web.png (320x240) [281.6 KB] || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009_640x480_thm.png (80x40) [16.1 KB] || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009_640x480_searchweb.png (320x180) [85.4 KB] || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009_1280x720_H264.webmhd.webm (960x540) [46.7 MB] || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009_640x480.mpg (640x480) [126.9 MB] || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009_1280x720_H264.mov (720x486) [158.2 MB] || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009_640x480_ipod.m4v (640x480) [46.7 MB] || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009320x240.mp4 (320x240) [18.7 MB] || Taking_Earths_Temperature_Updated_2009.wmv (346x260) [35.6 MB] || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 10521, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10521/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-11-05T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Road to Glory", "description": "Glory is a unique research satellite designed to orbit the Earth and achieve two major goals. Glory's first goal is to collect data on the properties of aerosols and black carbon in the Earth's atmosphere and climate system; its second goal is to collect data on solar irradiance for Earth's long-term climate record. This seven-minute video introduces Glory's science objectives, people, and instruments, and provides an overview of the Glory mission.For complete transcript, click here. || The_Road_to_Glory_512x288.01102_print.jpg (1024x576) [74.3 KB] || The_Road_to_Glory_512x288_web.png (180x320) [222.3 KB] || The_Road_to_Glory_512x288_thm.png (80x40) [14.2 KB] || The_Road_to_Glory_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [90.6 MB] || The_Road_to_Glory_1280x720_ProRes.mov (1280x720) [6.3 GB] || The_Road_to_Glory_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [204.8 MB] || The_Road_to_Glory_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [235.9 MB] || The_Road_to_Glory_640x480_ipod.m4v (640x360) [76.0 MB] || The_Road_to_Glory_512x288.mpg (512x288) [141.3 MB] || The_Road_to_Glory_320x240.mp4 (320x180) [33.4 MB] || The_Road_to_Glory.wmv (320x180) [37.8 MB] || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 10522, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10522/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-11-04T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Rough Road to Space", "description": "Space is a harsh environment, and building a space-bound satellite is no small feat! Here's a look at how NASA engineers get the Glory mission off the ground and safely into space!For complete transcript, click here. || The_Rough_Road_to_Space_512x288.01977_print.jpg (1024x576) [89.7 KB] || The_Rough_Road_to_Space_512x288_web.png (320x180) [264.1 KB] || The_Rough_Road_to_Space_512x288_thm.png (80x40) [17.2 KB] || The_Rough_Road_to_Space_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [29.2 MB] || Rough_Road_to_Space_1280x720_ProRes.mov (1280x720) [2.2 GB] || The_Rough_Road_to_Space_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [67.9 MB] || The_Rough_Road_to_Space_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [75.1 MB] || The_Rough_Road_to_Space_640x480_ipod.m4v (640x360) [27.2 MB] || The_Rough_Road_to_Space_512x288.mpg (512x288) [43.1 MB] || The_Rough_Road_to_Space_320x240.mp4 (320x180) [10.9 MB] || The_Rough_Road_to_Space.wmv (320x180) [14.6 MB] || ", "hits": 43 }, { "id": 10523, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10523/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Particle Puzzle", "description": "This short video, which is part of a seven part video podcast series about NASA's Glory mission, explores the complexity of small airborne particles called aerosols. Aerosols play a key role in the climate system, but they remain a terra incognito of sorts for climatologists because of challenges associated with measuring the ubiquitous particles. Glory's Aerosol Polarimetery Sensor (APS), a unique instrument that measures the polarization of light as it scatters off the aerosols, offers a new and more accurate way to measure the perplexing particlesFor complete transcript, click here. || The_Particle_Puzzle_512x288.00452_print.jpg (1024x576) [97.2 KB] || The_Particle_Puzzle_512x288_web.png (320x180) [237.2 KB] || The_Particle_Puzzle_512x288_thm.png (80x40) [16.9 KB] || The_Particle_Puzzle_960x540_Apple_TV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [67.7 MB] || The_Particle_Puzzle_1280x720_ProRes.mov (1280x720) [5.0 GB] || The_Particle_Puzzle_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [156.7 MB] || The_Particle_Puzzle_960x540_Apple_TV.m4v (960x540) [180.5 MB] || The_Particle_Puzzle_640x480_ipod.m4v (640x360) [55.3 MB] || The_Particle_Puzzle_512x288.mpg (512x288) [32.5 MB] || The_Particle_Puzzle_320x240.mp4 (320x180) [24.0 MB] || The_Particle_Puzzle.wmv (320x180) [33.5 MB] || ", "hits": 18 }, { "id": 10524, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10524/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Glory's Suncatcher", "description": "The Sun's energy is one of the biggest forcings on Earth's climate, and for years satellites have measured total solar irradiance. Glory will continue collection of this critical climate data, which will contribute to the long-term climate record. The cutting edge TIM instrument will continue the work of NASA's SORCE mission. For complete transcript, click here. || Glorys_Suncatcher_512x288.00627_print.jpg (1024x576) [45.3 KB] || Glorys_Suncatcher_512x288_web.png (320x180) [150.8 KB] || Glorys_Suncatcher_512x288_thm.png (80x40) [15.2 KB] || Glorys_Suncatcher_960x540_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [40.2 MB] || Glorys_Suncatcher_1280x720_ProRes.mov (1280x720) [3.2 GB] || Glorys_Suncatcher_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [97.7 MB] || Glorys_Suncatcher_960x540_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [107.5 MB] || Glorys_Suncatcher_640x480_ipod.m4v (640x360) [35.1 MB] || Glorys_Suncatcher_512x288.mpg (512x288) [36.1 MB] || Glorys_Suncatcher_320x240.mp4 (320x180) [14.3 MB] || Glorys_Suncatcher.wmv (320x180) [17.3 MB] || ", "hits": 13 }, { "id": 10525, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10525/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Hello Crud", "description": "This segment provides an introduction to aerosols- their varied sources, brief lifetimes, and erratic behavior. Glory's APS will help researchers determine the global distribution of aerosol particles. This unique instrument will unravel the microphysical properties of aerosols, and will shed light on the chemical composition of natural and anthropogenic aerosols and clouds. For complete transcript, click here. || Hello_Crud__512x288.00727_print.jpg (1024x576) [58.9 KB] || Hello_Crud__512x288_web.png (320x180) [160.9 KB] || Hello_Crud__512x288_thm.png (80x40) [15.7 KB] || Hello_Crud_960x720_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [66.8 MB] || Hello_Crud_1280x720_ProRes.mov (1280x720) [4.6 GB] || Hello_Crud_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [128.2 MB] || Hello_Crud_960x720_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [160.6 MB] || Hello_Crud__640x480_ipod.m4v (640x360) [52.5 MB] || Hello_Crud__512x288.mpg (512x288) [37.2 MB] || Hello_Crud_320x240.mp4 (320x180) [22.3 MB] || Hello_Crud.wmv (320x180) [32.7 MB] || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 3653, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3653/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Five-Year Average Global Temperature Anomalies for 1888,1918,1948,1978, 2008", "description": "Each year, scientists at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. A rapid warming trend has occurred over the past 30 years. Calendar year 2008 was the coolest year since 2000, according to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies analysis of surface air temperature measurements. In this analysis, 2008 is the ninth warmest year in the period of instrumental measurements, which extends back to 1881. 2005 is the hottest year on record, and 2007 is tied with 1998 for second place. The Earth is experiencing the warmest level of the current interglacial period, or interval between ice ages, which has lasted nearly 12,000 years. This color-coded map displays a long term progression of changing global surface temperatures, from 1881 to 2008. Dark red indicates the greatest warming and dark blue indicates the greatest cooling. || ", "hits": 90 }, { "id": 3631, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3631/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-09-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Daily Arctic Sea Ice - Summer 2009", "description": "Sea ice is frozen seawater floating on the surface of the ocean. Some sea ice is semi-permanent, persisting from year to year, and some is seasonal, melting and refreezing from season to season. The sea ice cover reaches its minimum extent at the end of each summer and the remaining ice is called the perennial ice cover.Duing the summer of 2009, the arctic sea ice reached its minimum extent on September 12th. The 2009 minimum extent was the third lowest extent measured since the beginning of the satellite record in 1979. This animation shows the summer retreat of sea ice over the Arctic from 7/1/2009 through 9/12/2009. The sea ice was defined by a 3-day moving average of the AMSR-E 12.5 km sea ice concentration, showing the region where the sea ice concentration was greater than 15%. The false color of the sea ice was derived from the AMSR-E 6.25 km brightness temperature. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 3625, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3625/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-08-26T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Honey Bees Weigh In on Climate", "description": "This animation illustrates the relationship between the annual vegetation cycle and seasonal variations in the weights of honey bee hives. The weight of a hive increases in the spring as bees bring back nectar from flowering plants. The change in hive weight over time can be compared with satellite measurements of vegetation. Tracking a large number of hives this way can reveal the effects of changing climate and land use on the interaction of plants and pollinators. Data from this hive in Highland, Maryland and others suggests that for some locations in the U.S., spring is arriving earlier by as much as half a day per year, probably due to a combination of climate and the warming effect of urbanization.This animation has been incorporated into the video \"Feeling the Sting of Climate Change,\" which provides more background and introduces HoneyBeeNet, a central repository for hive weight data from across the U.S. || ", "hits": 90 }, { "id": 10427, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10427/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-04-26T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Noctilucent Clouds A capella Music Video", "description": "The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission will provide the first detailed exploration of Earth's unique and elusive noctilucent or night shining clouds that are found literally on the \"edge of space\". Located near the top of the Earth's mesosphere (the region just above the stratosphere), very little is known about how these polar mesospheric clouds form or why they vary. They are being seen at lower latitudes than ever before and have been growing brighter and more frequent, leading some scientists to suggest that this recent increase may be the direct result of human-induced climate change. The mission is led by Dr. James Russell of the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at Hampton University.Music by The Chromatics. || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 3596, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3596/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-04-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Five-Year Average Global Temperature Anomalies from 1881 to 2008 for Science On a Sphere", "description": "Each year, scientists at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. A rapid warming trend has occurred over the past 30 years. Calendar year 2008 was the coolest year since 2000, according to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies analysis of surface air temperature measurements. In this analysis, 2008 is the ninth warmest year in the period of instrumental measurements, which extends back to 1881. 2005 is the hottest year on record, and 2007 is tied with 1998 for second place. The Earth is experiencing the warmest level of the current interglacial period, or interval between ice ages, which has lasted nearly 12,000 years. This color-coded map displays a long term progression of changing global surface temperatures, from 1881 to 2008. Dark red indicates the greatest warming and dark blue indicates the greatest cooling. || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 3592, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3592/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-04-05T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Fall Arctic Sea Ice Thickness Declining Rapidly", "description": "Using five years of data from NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), a team of NASA and university scientists made the first basin-wide estimate of the thickness and volume of the Arctic Ocean ice cover between 2003 and 2008. The scientists found that younger, thinner ice has replaced older, thicker ice as the dominant type over the past five years. Until recently, the majority of Arctic ice survived at least one summer and often several. That balance has now flipped. Seasonal ice, or ice that melts and re-freezes every year, now comprises about 70 percent of the Arctic sea ice in wintertime, up from 40 to 50 percent in the 1980s and 1990s. Thicker ice - surviving two or more years - now comprises just 10 percent of ice cover, down from 30 to 40 percent in years past.Sea ice thickness has been hard to measure directly so scientists have typically used estimates of ice age to approximate thickness. With ICESat, NASA scientists were for the first time able to monitor the ice thickness and volume changes over the entire Arctic Ocean. The Arctic ice cap grows each winter as the sun sets for several months and intense cold sets in. The total volume of winter Arctic ice is equal to the volume of fresh water in Lake Superior and Lake Michigan combined. Some of that ice is naturally pushed out of the Arctic by winds, while much of it melts in place. But not all of the ice in the Arctic melts each summer, and the thicker, older ice that survives one or more summers is more likely to persist through the next summer. This older, thicker ice is declining thinner ice that is more vulnerable to summer melt. Seasonal sea ice usually reaches about 2 meters (6 feet) in thickness, while ice that has lasted through more than one summer averages 3 meters (9 feet), though it can grow much thicker in some locations near the coast. From 2003 to 2008, multi-year ice has thinned by an average of 60 centimeters (2 feet). The total ice volume in winter has decreased by 6,300 cubic kilometers, or 40 percent. The maximum extent of multi-year ice is now one-third of what it was in the 1990s. || ", "hits": 39 }, { "id": 3589, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3589/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-03-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Winter Arctic Sea Ice Thickness Declining Rapidly", "description": "Using five years of data from NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), a team of NASA and university scientists made the first basin-wide estimate of the thickness and volume of the Arctic Ocean ice cover between 2003 and 2008. The scientists found that younger, thinner ice has replaced older, thicker ice as the dominant type over the past five years. Until recently, the majority of Arctic ice survived at least one summer and often several. That balance has now flipped. Seasonal ice, or ice that melts and re-freezes every year, now comprises about 70 percent of the Arctic sea ice in wintertime, up from 40 to 50 percent in the 1980s and 1990s. Thicker ice - surviving two or more years - now comprises just 10 percent of ice cover, down from 30 to 40 percent in years past.Sea ice thickness has been hard to measure directly so scientists have typically used estimates of ice age to approximate thickness. With ICESat, NASA scientists were for the first time able to monitor the ice thickness and volume changes over the entire Arctic Ocean. The Arctic ice cap grows each winter as the sun sets for several months and intense cold sets in. The total volume of winter Arctic ice is equal to the volume of fresh water in Lake Superior and Lake Michigan combined. Some of that ice is naturally pushed out of the Arctic by winds, while much of it melts in place. But not all of the ice in the Arctic melts each summer, and the thicker, older ice that survives one or more summers is more likely to persist through the next summer. This older, thicker ice is declining thinner ice that is more vulnerable to summer melt. Seasonal sea ice usually reaches about 2 meters (6 feet) in thickness, while ice that has lasted through more than one summer averages 3 meters (9 feet), though it can grow much thicker in some locations near the coast. From 2003 to 2008, multi-year ice has thinned by an average of 60 centimeters (2 feet). The total ice volume in winter has decreased by 6,300 cubic kilometers, or 40 percent. The maximum extent of multi-year ice is now one-third of what it was in the 1990s. || ", "hits": 70 }, { "id": 3593, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3593/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-03-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Fall and Winter Arctic Sea Ice Thickness Declining Rapidly", "description": "Using five years of data from NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), a team of NASA and university scientists made the first basin-wide estimate of the thickness and volume of the Arctic Ocean ice cover between 2003 and 2008. The scientists found that younger, thinner ice has replaced older, thicker ice as the dominant type over the past five years. Until recently, the majority of Arctic ice survived at least one summer and often several. That balance has now flipped. Seasonal ice, or ice that melts and re-freezes every year, now comprises about 70 percent of the Arctic sea ice in wintertime, up from 40 to 50 percent in the 1980s and 1990s. Thicker ice - surviving two or more years - now comprises just 10 percent of ice cover, down from 30 to 40 percent in years past.Sea ice thickness has been hard to measure directly so scientists have typically used estimates of ice age to approximate thickness. With ICESat, NASA scientists were for the first time able to monitor the ice thickness and volume changes over the entire Arctic Ocean. The Arctic ice cap grows each winter as the sun sets for several months and intense cold sets in. The total volume of winter Arctic ice is equal to the volume of fresh water in Lake Superior and Lake Michigan combined. Some of that ice is naturally pushed out of the Arctic by winds, while much of it melts in place. But not all of the ice in the Arctic melts each summer, and the thicker, older ice that survives one or more summers is more likely to persist through the next summer. This older, thicker ice is declining thinner ice that is more vulnerable to summer melt. Seasonal sea ice usually reaches about 2 meters (6 feet) in thickness, while ice that has lasted through more than one summer averages 3 meters (9 feet), though it can grow much thicker in some locations near the coast. From 2003 to 2008, multi-year ice has thinned by an average of 60 centimeters (2 feet). The total ice volume in winter has decreased by 6,300 cubic kilometers, or 40 percent. The maximum extent of multi-year ice is now one-third of what it was in the 1990s. || ", "hits": 163 }, { "id": 10398, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10398/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-20T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "USGS Video of a Hawaiian Volcano", "description": "Aerosols smaller than 1 micrometer are mostly formed by condensation processes such as conversion of sulfur dioxide (SO2) gas (released from volcanic eruptions) to sulfate particles and by formation of soot and smoke during burning processes. After formation, the aerosols are mixed and transported by atmospheric motions and are primarily removed by cloud and precipitation processes. Video courtesy of United States Geological Survey. || ", "hits": 91 }, { "id": 10382, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10382/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Glory Solar Array Deployment", "description": "The Glory spacecraft uses Orbital Sciences Corporation Space Systems Group's LEOStar-1 bus design, with deployable, four-panel solar arrays. This conceptual animation reveals Glory's unique solar array deployment sequence. || ", "hits": 34 }, { "id": 10383, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10383/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Glory Instrument Flyover", "description": "Glory will help researchers better understand the direct and indirect effects of atmospheric aerosols and of the Sun on Earth's climate. This animation reveals Glory's trio of remote-sensing instruments: Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS) will provide new capabilities in the characterization of aerosol particle microphysical properties through the collection of multiangle and multispectral radiance and polarization measurements. Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM) is an electrical substitution radiometer (ESR) that records measurements of total solar irradiance (TSI) with extreme accuracy and precision. Cloud Camera data will provide cross track coverage over a broader swath of aerosol load than the APS. || ", "hits": 13 }, { "id": 10384, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10384/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Glory's Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM)", "description": "The Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM) is an electrical substitution radiometer (ESR) that measures total solar irradiance (TSI) with extreme accuracy and precision. It has four identical radiometers to provide redundancy and to detect changes in the instrument performance due to exposure to solar radiation. As illustrated by this animation, the TIM is mounted on a two-axis, gimbaled platform that tracks the Sun independent of spacecraft orientation. The Glory TIM will continue the TSI measurements currently being acquired by the TIM instrument on the NASA SORCE satellite, in orbit since 2003. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 10386, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10386/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Sources of Aerosols", "description": "Aerosols can occur in nature, but they can also originate from human activity. These animations provide an introduction to four of the varied sources of atmospheric aerosols: cities, forest fires, the ocean, and deserts. || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 10388, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10388/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Human Induced versus Naturally Occurring Aerosols", "description": "One critical new area of aerosol research involves how the varied particles impact clouds. Clouds play an important role in regulating Earth's climate, and without aerosols, clouds could not exist. The introduction of a larger number of aerosols will modify cloud's natural properties, leading to clouds that are bigger, brighter, and longer lasting. Two time lapsed scenes with zooms to particle-level conceptual animations help to illustrate this concept. In a pristine environment, like the ocean scene depicted here, naturally occurring salt particles serve as condensation nuclei for water vapor in the atmosphere. The water molecules are drawn to the salt particles like magnets, forming water droplets and eventually creating a cloud. The city scene reveals how an increase in the number of aerosols modifies the properties of a naturally formed cloud. The large influx of soot particles increases the number of centers of attraction for the water molecules, and the water droplets become smaller in size but greater in number. || ", "hits": 72 }, { "id": 10390, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10390/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Sea Salt Aerosols", "description": "Aerosols are complex particles; they can occur in nature but can also be generated by humans. One source of naturally-occurring aerosols is the ocean-wave activity which propels salt particles into the air. These particles then serve as cloud condensation nuclei and lead to cloud formation. Sea salt still image courtesy of Chere Petty, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; NSF grant DBI-0722569 || ", "hits": 163 }, { "id": 10391, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10391/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Potassium Aerosols", "description": "Potassium is an alkali metal that occurs naturally bound to other elements in seawater and minerals. Mineral aerosols, such as Saharan dust and sea salt, can be the source of water-soluble potassium. Video courtesy of Chere Petty, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; NSF grant DBI-0722569. || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 10392, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10392/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Volcanic Ash Still Image", "description": "Aerosols are complex particles; they can occur in nature but can also be generated by humans. One source of naturally-occurring aerosols is volcanoes. Large-scale volcanic activity may last only a few days, but the massive outpouring of gases and ash can influence climate patterns for years. Sulfuric gases convert to sulfate aerosols, sub-micron droplets containing about 75 percent sulfuric acid. Following eruptions, these aerosol particles can linger as long as three to four years in the stratosphere. Still image courtesy of United States Geological Survey. || ", "hits": 72 }, { "id": 10393, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10393/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Soot and Sulfate Still Images and Video of Tractor Soot Particle", "description": "Aerosols are complex particles; they can occur in nature but can also be generated by humans. Black carbon, or soot, is generated from industrial pollution, traffic, outdoor fires, and household burning of coal and biomass fuels. Soot is a product of incomplete combustion, especially of coal, diesel fuels, biofuels and outdoor biomass burning. When soot absorbs sunlight, it heats the surrounding air and reduces the amount of sunlight reaching the ground. The heated air makes the atmosphere less stable, creating rising air (convection) which forms clouds and brings rainfall to regions that are heavily polluted. Still image courtesy of Peter Buseck, Arizona State University. Video courtesy of Chere Petty, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; NSF grant DBI-0722569. || ", "hits": 23 }, { "id": 10395, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10395/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Earth's Energy Budget Animations: Global View and Budget Breakout", "description": "Total solar irradiance (TSI) is the dominant driver of the Earth's climate. The global temperature of the Earth is almost completely determined by the balance between the intensity of the incident solar radiation and the response of the Earth's atmosphere via absorption, reflection, and re-radiation. Roughly 30 percent of the TSI that strikes the Earth is reflected back into space by clouds, atmospheric aerosols, snow, ice, desert sand, rooftops, and even ocean surf. The remaining 70 percent of the TSI is absorbed by the land, ocean, and atmosphere. In addition, different layers of the Earth's atmosphere absorb different wavelengths of light. Changes in either the TSI or in the composition of the atmosphere can cause climate change. Two conceptual science animations provide two different perspectives that both illustrate Earth's energy budget. || ", "hits": 162 }, { "id": 10397, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10397/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "City and Traffic Timelapses", "description": "Various timelapse shots of cityscapes and traffic. Shot to support the Glory mission. || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 10379, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10379/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-18T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Glory Launch Sequence", "description": "Glory will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base onboard a Taurus XL launch vehicle. The Taurus launch service is provided by Orbital Sciences Corporation Launch Systems Group, under contract to the NASA Kennedy Space Center. The Taurus XL will place Glory into a circular, Sun-synchronous injection orbit with an altitude of 640 kilometers and an inclination of 97.9 degrees. || ", "hits": 15 }, { "id": 10380, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10380/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-18T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Two Glory Beauty Passes", "description": "The Glory spacecraft uses Orbital Sciences Corporation Space Systems Group's LEOStar-1 bus design, with deployable solar arrays, 3-axis stabilization, and X-band/S-band RF communications capabilities. The structure consists of an octagonal aluminum space frame and a hydrazine propulsion module containing enough fuel to support initial orbit raising and at least 36 months of on-orbit service. The spacecraft bus also provides payload power; command, telemetry, and science data interfaces, including onboard storage of data; and an attitude control subsystem to support instrument pointing requirements. Two animated beauty passes reveal different perspectives of the spacecraft in orbit. || ", "hits": 12 }, { "id": 3575, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3575/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-01-22T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Temperature Trends in Antarctica", "description": "This image shows warming of the Antartctic ice-sheet surface inland of the Antarctic Peninsula. This warming is significantly higher than previously reported, exceeding 0.1 degree C per decade over the past 50 years, and is strongest in winter and spring. The image incorporates temperature data collected over a 50-year period from 1957 to 2006. Surface color is derived from low-resolution LIMA data, while topography is from a RADARSAT 200m DEM. The ice cover is derived from 12-km AMSR-E data taken on 5/14/08. || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 10371, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10371/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-01-17T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Climate Change and Polar Ice: Are We Waking Sleeping Giants w/ Dr. Waleed Abdalati", "description": "Water covers more than 70% of our planet's surface and largely governs so many things from climate change to the sustenance of life on earth. What you may not realize is the vital importance played by the solid part of our planet's water inventory. || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 10340, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10340/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-12-02T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Cross Calibration of the Afternoon Constellation's Instruments", "description": "The name \"A-Train\" comes from the formation of international, Earth-observing satellites known as the Afternoon Constellation, which operate in a Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 705 km. The close proximity of the different spacecraft within the A-Train allows for coincident observations between instruments on different spacecrafts, providing scientists additional capabilities in their pursuit of answers about the Earth and its climate. Upon joining the A-train, Glory will help researchers better understand two critical forcings of Earth's climate: atmospheric aerosols and total solar irradiance. || ", "hits": 35 }, { "id": 10339, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10339/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-11-09T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Puffin-Satellite Connection", "description": "In 2007, science video producer Maria Frostic took a leave of absence from her work at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to pursue a Fulbright Scholarship in Iceland. But when she got there and launched into a film about Icelandic puffins, she realized NASA science was an important part of the story... || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 3508, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3508/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Annual Arctic Minimum Sea Ice from 1979 - 2008 designed for Science On a Sphere (SOS) and WMS", "description": "In 2007, Arctic summer sea ice reached its lowest extent on record - nearly 25% less than the previous low set in 2005. At the end of each summer, the sea ice cover reaches its minimum extent and what is left, called the perennial ice cover, consists mainly of thick multi-year ice floes. The area of the perennial ice has been steadily decreasing since the satellite record began in 1979, at a rate of about 10% per decade. But the 2007 minimum, reached on September 14, is far below the previous record made in 2005 and is about 38% lower than the climatological average. This visualization shows the annual Arctic sea ice minimum from 1979 to 2008 on a Cartesian grid with a transparent background for use in Science On a Sphere and WMS. || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 10264, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10264/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-10-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Science Week 2008", "description": "Keep your eyes glued to the Goddard Web site through the week of October 12 for daily videos that answer several questions about our home planet. The videos are all part of Earth Science Week: 2008, themed 'No Child Left Inside.' || ", "hits": 5 }, { "id": 10353, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10353/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sea Ice 2008", "description": "Arctic sea ice declined this summer to its second smallest extent in the satellite era, suggesting that the record set in 2007 may not have been an anomaly. If recent trends in the melt rate continue, we could see a virtually ice-free Arctic each summer much sooner than previously thought.For complete transcript, click here. || SeaIce2008_320iPod.03621_print.jpg (1024x576) [95.6 KB] || SeaIce2008_320iPod_web.png (320x180) [129.4 KB] || SeaIce2008_320iPod_thm.png (80x40) [17.3 KB] || SeaIce2008_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [46.7 MB] || SeaIce2008_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [115.0 MB] || SeaIce2008_fullH264.mov (1280x720) [112.5 MB] || SeaIce2008_640iPod.m4v (640x360) [37.0 MB] || Sea_Ice_2008_640x360_Youtube.mov (640x480) [40.7 MB] || GSFC_20080925_SeaIce_m10353_2008.en_US.srt [6.0 KB] || GSFC_20080925_SeaIce_m10353_2008.en_US.vtt [5.7 KB] || SeaIce2008_320iPod.m4v (320x180) [16.6 MB] || SeaIce2008_podcast.mp4 (320x236) [14.7 MB] || SeaIce2008_512x288.mpg (512x288) [50.7 MB] || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 20150, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20150/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2008-07-31T13:47:00-04:00", "title": "Global Precipitation Measurement Mission", "description": "A sucessor to TRMM, GPM will monitor global precipitation in various forms using a fleet of spacecraft, networked ground stations and integrated data processing centers.Updated March 2010: This animation no longer reflects the spacecraft configuration. NASA's animation team is currently working on an updated animation. || ", "hits": 13 }, { "id": 3490, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3490/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-01-16T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Five-Year Average Global Temperature Anomalies from 1881 to 2007", "description": "Each year, scientists at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. A rapid warming trend has occurred over the past 30 years, and the eight hottest years on the GISS record have occurred in the past decade. 2005 is the hottest year on record, and 2007 is tied with 1998 for second place. The Earth is experiencing the warmest level of the current interglacial period, or interval between ice ages, which has lasted nearly 12,000 years. This color-coded map displays a long term progression of changing global surface temperatures, from 1881 to 2007. Dark red indicates the greatest warming and dark blue indicates the greatest cooling. || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 3476, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3476/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Annual Gradient Melt over Greenland 1979 through 2007", "description": "The ice sheet melt extent is a daily (or every-other-day, prior to August, 1987) estimate of the spatial extent of wet snow on the Greenland ice sheet derived from passive microwave satellite brightness temperature characteristics. This indicator of melt on each area of the ice sheet for each day of observation is physically based on the changes in microwave emission characteristics observable in data. Although it is not a direct measure of the snow wetness, it is representative of the amount of ice loss due to seasonal melting that occurs on the Greenland ice sheet.This animation is a time series showing the regions of the Greenland ice sheet where melt occurred for more than three days between May 1st and September 30th for each year. Areas in which melt occurred for longer time periods are shown in a darker red while those areas melted for fewer days are shown in lighter red. Areas melted three or less days during the year are not colored. || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 3475, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3475/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Annual Accumulated Melt over Greenland 1979 through 2007", "description": "The ice sheet melt extent is a daily (or every-other-day, prior to August, 1987) estimate of the spatial extent of wet snow on the Greenland ice sheet derived from passive microwave satellite brightness temperature characteristics. This indicator of melt on each area of the ice sheet for each day of observation is physically based on the changes in microwave emission characteristics observable in data. Although it is not a direct measure of the snow wetness, it is representative of the amount of ice loss due to seasonal melting that occurs on the Greenland ice sheet.This animation shows the regions of the Greenland ice sheet over which melt occurred more than three days between May 1st and September 30th for each year. || ", "hits": 68 }, { "id": 20114, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20114/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2007-09-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Greenhouse Gases Effect on Global Warming", "description": "The 'greenhouse effect' is the warming of climate that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space. Certain gases in the atmosphere resemble glass in a greenhouse, allowing sunlight to pass into the 'greenhouse,' but blocking Earth's heat from escaping into space. The gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect include water vapor, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, nitrous oxides, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).On Earth, human activities are changing the natural greenhouse. Over the last century the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil has increased the concentration of atmospheric CO2. This happens because the coal or oil burning process combines carbon (C) with oxygen (O2) in the air to make CO2. To a lesser extent, the clearing of land for agriculture, industry, and other human activities have increased the concentrations of other greenhouse gases like methane (CH4), and further increased (CO2).The consequences of changing the natural atmospheric greenhouse are difficult to predict, but certain effects seem likely: - On average, Earth will become warmer. Some regions may welcome warmer temperatures, but others may not. - Warmer conditions will probably lead to more evaporation and precipitation overall, but individual regions will vary, some becoming wetter and others dryer. - A stronger greenhouse effect will probably warm the oceans and partially melt glaciers and other ice, increasing sea level. Ocean water also will expand if it warms, contributing to further sea level rise. - Meanwhile, some crops and other plants may respond favorably to increased atmospheric CO2, growing more vigorously and using water more efficiently. At the same time, higher temperatures and shifting climate patterns may change the areas where crops grow best and affect the makeup of natural plant communities. || ", "hits": 2866 }, { "id": 3752, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3752/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-04-16T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Life's Signature Colors, Captured by Satellite", "description": "Think of Earth's great life forms and images of cheetahs, whales and dinosaurs come to mind. Towering redwood trees, majestic plains of grasses on Asian steppes: Earth's living glow fills the eye with diversity, resilience, and endless Darwinian invention.But arguably one of the most essential populations on Earth would have no chance if pitted against others in a contest based on looks alone. More than any other kind of life, the Earth lives and breathes because of the profound success of lowly phytoplankton.Phytoplankton is a broad, catch-all name for a wide category of simple organisms living primarily in the world's oceans. Floating in vast fields of billions of tiny individual plants, these essential life forms make up a colossal proportion of the Earth's total biomass. It's also vital to the overall web of life on Earth. Phytoplankton serves not only as the base of the aquatic food chain, but also as the principal source of atmospheric oxygen worldwide.As global climate continues to change, a complex set of forces begins to push and pull on the ability of phytoplankton populations to thrive. Changing global ocean temperatures have enormous influences, as does changing ocean chemistry. But while this may present itself as a subject of purely academic interest, phytoplankton populations may present one of the most vital bellwethers for practical changes beginning to take hold of a planet in transition.NASA's SeaWiFS spacecraft is one of the most powerful tools in keeping up with these trends. A small, low cost vehicle and instrument package, SeaWiFS monitors the colors of the world everyday. As a proxy for bioproductivity, color is the key to understanding how these oceanic lifeforms are faring...and changing. || ", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 3630, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3630/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-01-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Jakobshavn Glacier Calving Front Recession from 1851 to 2009", "description": "Jakobshavn Isbrae is located on the west coast of Greenland at Latitude 69 N. The ice front, where the glacier calves into the sea, receded more than 40 km between 1850 and 2006. Between 1850 and 1964 the ice front retreated at a steady rate of about 0.3 km/yr, after which it occupied approximately the same location until 2001, when the ice front began to recede again, but far more rapidly at about 3 km/yr. As more ice moves from glaciers on land into the ocean, it causes a rise in sea level. Jakobshavn Isbrae is Greenland's largest outlet glacier, draining 6.5 percent of Greenland's ice sheet area. The ice stream's speed-up and near-doubling of the ice flow from land into the ocean has increased the rate of sea level rise by about .06 millimeters (about .002 inches) per year, or roughly 4 percent of the 20th century rate of sea level increase. || ", "hits": 49 }, { "id": 3375, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3375/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Five-Year Average Global Temperature Anomalies from 1881 to 2006", "description": "Because of a rapid warming trend over the past 30 years, the Earth is now reaching and passing through the warmest levels seen in the last 12,000 years. This color-coded map shows a progression of changing global surface temperatures from 1881 to 2006, the warmest ranked year on record. || ", "hits": 54 }, { "id": 20078, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20078/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2006-09-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Methane's Connection to Global Warming", "description": "Methane is a simple compound made of carbon and hydroge. This gas comes from ordinary sources, like cattle herds and garbage dumps. On a planetary scale it also has a significant impact on climate. As it builds up in the atmosphere, it traps energy from the sun like a layer of insulation. Carbon dioxide does much the same thing-it causes global warming by trapping heat. But as experts struggle to curtail global climate change, a decrease of atmospheric methane might be easier to achieve than proportional drops in carbon dioxide, affording an alternate scenario to policy makers.Methane is second only to carbon dioxide in contributing to global warming. It is a naturally occurring gas, a product of a variety of biological processes. But in terms of climate change, it is the unnatural concentration of the gas from human induced factors that has researchers concerned. In the case of garbage disposal, methane enters the atmosphere as a byproduct of decomposition. As anaerobic bacteria break down polymers and other carbon based garbage, like the banana peel shown here, methane gets produced as a waste gas. As it enters the atmosphere, it reduces the Earth's ability to cool by absorbing more reflected heat from the planet than would otherwise occur. Other sources of methane production include rice cultivation, industrial production, and cattle herds. || ", "hits": 96 } ] }