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That mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru.\"An El Niño basically stops the normal upwelling,\" Uz said. \"There’s a lot of starvation that happens to the marine food web.\" These small plants, called phytoplankton, are fish food – without them, fish populations drop, and the fishing industries that many coastal regions depend on can collapse. || ", "hits": 177 }, { "id": 30754, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30754/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2016-03-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Ocean Color Time Series", "description": "Ocean Color, July 2002 - March 2017 || ocean_color_mollweide_1080p.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [147.0 KB] || ocean_color_mollweide_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [52.3 MB] || ocean_color_mollweide_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [26.0 MB] || ocean_color_mollweide_1080p.webm (1920x1080) [4.1 MB] || mollweide (4104x2304) [0 Item(s)] || ocean_color_mollweide_2304p.mp4 (4096x2304) [172.6 MB] || ", "hits": 59 }, { "id": 30747, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30747/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2016-01-29T10:00:00-05:00", "title": "2015 El Niño Disrupts Ocean Chlorophyll", "description": "Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly & Ocean Color variations during El Nino vs. La Nina, using the rainbow colorbar for Ocean Color || ocean_color_ssta_swipe_new_rainbow_1080p.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [116.9 KB] || ocean_color_ssta_swipe_new_rainbow_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [2.4 MB] || ocean_color_ssta_swipe_new_rainbow_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [1.4 MB] || ocean_color_ssta_swipe_new_rainbow_720p.webm (1280x720) [3.8 MB] || ocean_color_ssta_swipe_new_rainbow_2304p.mp4 (4096x2304) [7.5 MB] || ocean_color_ssta_swipe_new_rainbow_360p.mp4 (640x360) [530.1 KB] || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 12044, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12044/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-11-12T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Carbon and Climate Briefing - November 12, 2015", "description": "Carbon_and_Climate_HD.jpg (1280x720) [722.5 KB] || Carbon_and_Climate_HD_searchweb.png (320x180) [100.9 KB] || Carbon_and_Climate_HD_thm.png (80x40) [7.8 KB] || ", "hits": 107 }, { "id": 4387, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4387/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-10-13T17:00:00-04:00", "title": "El Niño: Disrupting the Marine Food Web", "description": "This gallery was created for Earth Science Week 2015 and beyond. It includes a quick start guide for educators and first-hand stories (blogs) for learners of all ages by NASA visualizers, scientists and educators. We hope that your understanding and use of NASA's visualizations will only increase as your appreciation grows for the beauty of the science they portray, and the communicative power they hold. Read all the blogs and find educational resources for all ages at: the Earth Science Week 2015 page.In case you haven’t heard, El Niño is starting to make headlines this year. Often nicknamed \"the bad boy of weather,\" who is this guy?A long time ago, fishermen off the west coast of South America — one of the world's most productive fisheries — noticed that some years the fish disappeared. This was especially noticeable around Christmas time — giving it the name El Niño, which means Christ child in Spanish. Today we know why El Niño happens — but knowing when it will happen is still a challenge. Normally, winds blow from east to west along the equator, pushing surface water westward. As the water moves away from the east, nutrient-rich deeper ocean water rises to fill the void (called upwelling.) When nutrients rise into sunlight, they cause blooms of tiny plants called phytoplankton. These plants feed the entire marine food web from small fish such as sardines to bigger fish, sea birds, and marine mammals. When an El Niño develops, the normal east-to-west winds die and warm surface water from the west Pacific moves eastward. This stops the upwelling in the east. Without the supply of deeper, nutrient-rich water, less phytoplankton bloom and the fisheries collapse. From satellites in space we see how these changes impact the ocean’s color. Normally, the ocean looks more green along the equator (image below, left.) During El Niño, the ocean looks more blue and less green because there is less plant life (images below, right.) While this color change is subtle to our eyes, it means life or death for the species that depend upon plankton for food. Some animals starve (e.g. sea lions, marine iguanas, Galapagos penguins) while others move away to look for food elsewhere. || ", "hits": 38 }, { "id": 30669, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30669/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2015-09-30T18:00:00-04:00", "title": "Modeled Phytoplankton Communities in the Global Ocean", "description": "Phytoplankton are the base of the marine food web and are crucial players in the Earth's carbon cycle. They are also incredibly diverse. This visualization shows dominant phytoplankton types from 1994-1998 generated by the Darwin Project using a high-resolution ocean and ecosystem model. The model contains flow fields from 1994-1998 (generated by the ECCO2 model), inorganic nutrients, 78 species of phytoplankton, zooplankton, as well as particulate and dissolved organic matter. Colors represent the most dominant type of phytoplankton at a given location based on their size and ability to uptake nutrients. Red represents diatoms (big phytoplankton, which need silica), yellow represents flagellates (other big phytoplankton), green represents prochlorococcus (small phytoplankton that cannot use nitrate), and cyan represents synechococcus (other small phytoplankton). Opacity indicates concentration of the carbon biomass.A key part of the Darwin Project is developing theoretical and numerical models of the marine ecosystems. The data shown here are from a simulation of the Darwin model in a physical run of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model by the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) group. The model provides a laboratory to explore the controls on biodiversity and the biogeography of different phytoplankton species. In particular, the role of the swirls and filaments (mesoscale features) appear important in maintaining high biodiversity in the ocean. || ", "hits": 164 }, { "id": 40259, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/svsdb-esw2015index/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2015-09-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Science Week 2015: Visualizing Earth Systems (Oct. 11-17)", "description": "This gallery was created for Earth Science Week 2015 and beyond, and includes a quick start guide for educators and first-hand stories (blogs) for learners of all ages by NASA visualizers, scientists and educators. It's our hope that your understanding and use of NASA's visualizations will only increase as your appreciation grows for the beauty of the science they portray, and the communicative power they hold.ESW is an initiative of the American Geosciences Institute (AGI). NASA is a partner in ESW, collaborating with AGI's Center for Science and Society and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES).", "hits": 5 }, { "id": 11934, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11934/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-09-24T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dwindling Diatoms", "description": "A NASA study shows a decline in populations of tiny plants in the world's oceans. || c-1920.jpg (1920x1080) [282.0 KB] || c-1280.jpg (1280x720) [164.7 KB] || c-1024.jpg (1024x576) [103.4 KB] || c-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [112.6 KB] || c-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [64.0 KB] || c-1024_web.png (320x180) [64.0 KB] || c-1024_thm.png (80x40) [11.9 KB] || ", "hits": 44 }, { "id": 11426, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11426/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-12-03T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "Ask A Climate Scientist - Climate Change and Humans", "description": "How does climate change affect humans? That's the question we asked Tom Wagner, Program Scientist for Cryospheric Research at NASA.In four different ways, he says, from rainfall patterns and sea levels rising to food production and ocean acidification. First, \"as the planet warms up, we're going to redistribute rainfall, which is going to affect our water resources and parts of North America may get a lot drier.\"Second, \"as the polar ice melts, sea levels are going to rise.\" The world's major cities, and a lot of people, are right on the coasts and rising sea levels are going to impact them. Third, thinking about food, the \"distributions where we can grow food are going to change as the planet warms up.\" So the range over which you can grow corn and other crops will change. Fourth, says Tom Wagner, \"the oceans are going to get more acidic as more CO2 dissolves in them.\" There are untold ramifications from that, including the possibility of radically altering the food web in the ocean, \"which can affect everything from the composition of the atmosphere to the ability of the oceans to provide food for us.\"See more of NASA's answers to your questions on climate science. || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 30392, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30392/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-10-24T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Monthly Chlorophyll Concentrations", "description": "At the base of the ocean food web are single-celled algae and other plant-like organisms known as phytoplankton. Like plants on land, phytoplankton use chlorophyll and other light-harvesting pigments to carry out photosynthesis, absorbing atmospheric carbon dioxide to produce sugars for fuel. Chlorophyll in the water changes the way it reflects and absorbs sunlight, allowing scientists to map the amount and location of phytoplankton. These measurements give scientists valuable insights into the health of the ocean environment, and help scientists study the ocean carbon cycle. These monthly chlorophyll maps show milligrams of chlorophyll per cubic meter of seawater from July 2002 to the present, derived using data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument onboard NASA’s Aqua satellite. Places where chlorophyll amounts were very low, indicating very low numbers of phytoplankton are blue. Places where chlorophyll concentrations were high, meaning many phytoplankton were growing, are yellow. Land is dark gray, and places where MODIS could not collect data because of sea ice, polar darkness, or clouds are light gray. The highest chlorophyll concentrations, where tiny surface-dwelling ocean plants are thriving, are in cold polar waters or in places where ocean currents bring cold water to the surface. || ", "hits": 86 }, { "id": 3877, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3877/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2013-10-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dynamic Earth Dome Show - Biosphere", "description": "This visualization was a prototype affiliated with the 'Dynamic Earth', an Earth science planetarium show. The visualization shows the global biosphere and NDVI from the SeaWiFS instrument with MODIS ice and snow overlayed.The images were rendered using a fish eye technique so that they would project properly onto a planetarium dome.Earth scientists are able to measure many of the Earth's 'vital signs', and just like a doctor measures our vital signs to see how healthy we are. Scientists will use these measurements of the Earth to better understand how the Earth functions, how the different systems on Earth interact and how those interactions have set the stage upon which life flourishes. The visualization shows a timeseries of images of SeaWiFS Global Biosphere - the ocean's long-term average phytoplankton chlorophyll concentration acquired between September 1997 and September 2007 combined with the SeaWiFS-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index over land. On land, the dark greens show where there is abundant vegetation and tans show relatively sparse plant cover. In the oceans, red, yellow, and green pixels show dense phytoplankton blooms, those regions of the ocean that are the most productive over time, while blues and purples show where there is very little of the microscopic marine plants called phytoplankton. Remote sensing, especially using satellite-mounted colour scanners (SeaWiFS and similar platforms), is advocated for broad-based monitoring of chlorophyll once appropriate algorithms have been developed and proved. The concentration of the photosynthetic pigment chlorophyll a (referred to as chlorophyll) in marine waters is a proven indicator of the biomass of phytoplankton, the organisms that constitute the base of the marine food web. Fluorometry provides an estimate of chlorophyll levels in sea water and thus an estimate of primary productivity in the upper part of the water column.For more information on monitoring the Earth from Space with SeaWIFS see http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/SeaWiFS/TEACHERS/. || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 3938, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3938/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-04-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Biosphere Data 2000 through 2004", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the SeaStar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. This animation represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea and along the Western seaboard of the United States. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land. The nutrient-rich waters contribute to some of the oxygen-poor pockets of the seas called dead zones. || ", "hits": 4 }, { "id": 3688, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3688/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2010-03-17T23:00:00-04:00", "title": "Shrimp-Like Creature Discovered at Windless Bight, Antarctica - 600 Feet Beneath Ice Sheet", "description": "At a depth of 600 feet beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet, a small shrimp-like creature managed to brighten up an otherwise gray polar day in late November 2009. This critter is a three-inch long Lyssianasid amphipod found beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, about 12.5 miles away from open water in the region called Windless Bight. NASA scientists were using a borehole camera to look back up towards the ice surface when they spotted this pinkish-orange creature swimming beneath the ice. || ", "hits": 57 }, { "id": 10497, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10497/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Ocean's Green Machines", "description": "One tiny marine plant makes life on Earth possible: phytoplankton. These microscopic photosynthetic drifters form the basis of the marine food web, they regulate carbon in the atmosphere, and are responsible for half of the photosynthesis that takes place on this planet. Earth's climate is changing at an unprecedented rate, and as our home planet warms, so does the ocean. Warming waters have big consequences for phytoplankton and for the planet. For complete transcript, click here. || Oceans_Green_Machines_640x480_ESWpage.00427_print.jpg (1024x576) [65.8 KB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_640x480_ESWpage_web.png (320x180) [135.9 KB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_640x480_ESWpage_thm.png (80x40) [15.0 KB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_AppleTV.webmhd.webm (960x540) [80.8 MB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_1280x720_ProRes.mov (1280x720) [4.9 GB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_1280x720_H264.mov (1280x720) [176.1 MB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_1280x720_ESWpage.mp4 (1280x720) [115.8 MB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_AppleTV.m4v (960x540) [195.1 MB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_640x360_ipod.m4v (640x360) [62.2 MB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_640x480_ESWpage.mp4 (640x360) [62.2 MB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_512x288.mpg (512x288) [113.3 MB] || Oceans_Green_Machines_320x180.mp4 (320x180) [27.7 MB] || Oceans_Green_Machines.wmv (320x176) [37.8 MB] || ", "hits": 150 }, { "id": 10498, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10498/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Keeping Up With Carbon", "description": "Carbon is all around us. This unique atom is the basic building block of life, and its compounds form solids, liquids, or gases. Carbon helps form the bodies of living organisms; it dissolves in the ocean; mixes in the atmosphere; and can be stored in the crust of the planet. A carbon atom could spend millions of years moving through this complex cycle. The ocean plays the most critical role in regulating Earth's carbon balance, and understanding how the carbon cycle is changing is key to understanding Earth's changing climate. 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Carbon makes up Earth's plants and animals, and is also stored in the ocean, the atmosphere, and the crust of the planet. A carbon atom could spend millions of years moving through Earth in a complex cycle. This conceptual animation provides an illustration of the various parts of the Carbon cycle. Purple arrows indicate the uptake of Carbon; yellow arrows indicate the release of Carbon. On land, plants remove carbon from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. Animals eat plants and either breath out the carbon, or it moves up the food chain. When plants and animals die and decay, they transfer carbon back to the soil. Moving offshore, the ocean takes up carbon through physical and biological processes. At the ocean's surface, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolves into the water. Tiny marine plants called phytoplankton use this carbon dioxide for photosynthesis. Phytoplankton are the base of the marine food web. After animals eat the plants, they breathe out the carbon or pass it up the food chain. Sometimes phytoplankton die, decompose, and are recycled in the surface waters. Phytoplankton can also sink to the bottom of the ocean, where they become buried in marine sediment. Over long time scales, this process has made the ocean floor the largest reservoir of carbon on the planet. In a process called upwelling, currents bring cold water containing carbon up to the surface. As the water warms, the carbon is then be released as a gas back into the atmosphere, continuing the carbon cycle. Carbon is found in the atmosphere as Carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas. Greenhouse gases act like a blanket, and trap heat in the atmosphere. In the past two centuries, humans have increased atmospheric carbon dioxide by more than 30%, by burning fossil-fuels and cutting down forests. || ", "hits": 436 }, { "id": 10495, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10495/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Marine Food Web", "description": "This conceptual animation illustrates some of the ecological pathways between species within the marine ecosystem. Single-celled microscopic plants called phytoplankton float in the upper ocean. These photosynthetic plants form the foundation of the marine food web, and nearly all life in the ocean depend upon them for survival, including microscopic zooplankton and whales. || foodweb_0701.00702_print.jpg (1024x563) [49.3 KB] || foodweb_0701_web.png (320x180) [162.0 KB] || foodweb_0701_thm.png (80x40) [11.1 KB] || MarineFoodWeb_appletv.webmhd.webm (960x540) [3.8 MB] || 1280x720_16x9_30p (1280x720) [32.0 KB] || MarineFoodWeb_appletv.m4v (960x540) [9.7 MB] || MarineFoodWeb_h264.mov (1280x720) [12.3 MB] || MarineFoodWeb_prores.mov (1280x720) [436.5 MB] || MarineFoodWeb_ipod.m4v (640x360) [5.3 MB] || foodweb.mp4 (320x176) [3.7 MB] || ", "hits": 168 }, { "id": 3515, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3515/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-07-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Biosphere Data Over Northeastern United States", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the SeaStar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. This animation represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea and along the north eastern seaboard of the United States. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land. The nutrient-rich waters contribute to some of the oxygen-poor pockets of the seas called dead zones. || ", "hits": 8 }, { "id": 3516, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3516/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-07-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Biosphere Data Over United States Eastern Seaboard", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the SeaStar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. This animation represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea and along the eastern seaboard of the United States. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land. The nutrient-rich waters contribute to some of the oxygen-poor pockets of the seas called dead zones. || ", "hits": 1 }, { "id": 3524, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3524/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-07-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Biosphere Data Over Northeastern United States (Land Masked)", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the SeaStar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. This animation represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea and along the north eastern seaboard of the United States. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land. The nutrient-rich waters contribute to some of the oxygen-poor pockets of the seas called dead zones. || ", "hits": 4 }, { "id": 3526, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3526/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-07-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Biosphere Data Over United States Eastern Seaboard (Land Masked)", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the SeaStar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. This animation represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea and along the eastern seaboard of the United States. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land. The nutrient-rich waters contribute to some of the oxygen-poor pockets of the seas called dead zones. || ", "hits": 4 }, { "id": 3527, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3527/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-07-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Biosphere Data Across the United States Western Seaboard (Land Masked)", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the SeaStar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. This animation represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea and along the Western seaboard of the United States. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land. The nutrient-rich waters contribute to some of the oxygen-poor pockets of the seas called dead zones. || ", "hits": 7 }, { "id": 3528, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3528/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-07-10T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Biosphere Data Around the Gulf of Mexico (Land Masked)", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the SeaStar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. This animation represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea in and around the Gulf of Mexico. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land. The nutrient-rich waters contribute to some of the oxygen-poor pockets of the seas called dead zones. || ", "hits": 7 }, { "id": 3517, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3517/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-06-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Biosphere Data Across the United States Western Seaboard", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the SeaStar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. This animation represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea and along the Western seaboard of the United States. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land. The nutrient-rich waters contribute to some of the oxygen-poor pockets of the seas called dead zones. || ", "hits": 12 }, { "id": 3518, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3518/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-06-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Biosphere Data Around the Gulf of Mexico", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the SeaStar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. This animation represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea in and around the Gulf of Mexico. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land. The nutrient-rich waters contribute to some of the oxygen-poor pockets of the seas called dead zones. || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 3477, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3477/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2008-04-21T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "Chesapeake Bay Watershed Region (short version)", "description": "The watershed that drains into the Chesapeake Bay is a huge expanse that extends 64,000 miles into five states across North America (New York, Pensylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia) and the District of Columbia. This visualization overlays the full watershed onto a Landsat satellite visualization of the Bay area. The eight different distinctly colored regions indicate the Chesapeake's major subwatersheds. These subwatershed regions are: Susquehanna, Potomac, Patuxent, MD West Shore, Rapahhannock, Eastern Shore, James and York. This visualization contains just the last part of the Chesapeake Bay Flyover and Watershed Region (#3472) animation and demonstrates the entire Watershed without the Chesapeake Bay flyover. This animation highlights and labels each subwatershed in turn. Data Notes:The mosaic was created by EarthSat under contract with NASA as part of the GeoCover 2000 product. All images used in GeoCover were acquired by Landsat-7 during the period of 1999-2002. The pixel size of the full resolution image represents 14.25 m on the ground. The Chesapeake Bay mosaic uses portions of eight Landsat-7 scenes. Below you will find a listing of the eight Landsat 7 images that were put together to create the composite image. Landsat scenes are organized by a Path and Row number according to the Worldwide Reference System. (To learn more about Landsat's Worldwide Reference System, please visit: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/wrs.html)Scenes used in the Chesapeake Bay mosaic: Landsat-7 WRS Path 15-Row 32 acquired on Oct. 05, 2001 Landsat-7 WRS Path 14-Row 32 acquired on Sept. 23, 1999 Landsat-7 WRS Path 15-Row 33 acquired on October 05, 2001 Landsat-7 WRS Path 14-Row 33 acquired on July 10, 2001Landsat-7 WRS Path 15-Row 34 acquired on Sept. 30, 1999 Landsat-7 WRS Path 14-Row 34 acquired on July 10, 2001 Landsat-7 WRS Path 15-Row 35 acquired on Sept. 30, 1999 Landsat-7 WRS Path 14-Row 35 acquired on Sept. 23, 1999 || ", "hits": 95 }, { "id": 3454, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3454/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "SeaWiFS Biosphere Data over the North Pacific", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the Seastar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. This animation represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land. || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 3471, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3471/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-10-05T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "SeaWiFS Biosphere Data over the North Pacific (Slow Version)", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the Seastar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. This animation represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land.This animation is essentially the same as animation #3454 with a few minor changes and runs at a slower speed. || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 3494, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3494/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-10-05T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "SeaWiFS Biosphere Data over Australia", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the Seastar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. This animation represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land. || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 3459, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3459/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2007-09-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Multivariate ENSO Index Correlation with Ocean Net Primary Production Data over the North Atlantic", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the Seastar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. A check up of the Earth's planetary health reveals that the lowest rung in the ocean food chain is shrinking. For the past 20 years (early 1980s to present), phytoplankton concentrations declined as much as 30 percent in northern oceans. Scientists from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and Oregon State University say warmer ocean temperatures and low winds may be depriving the tiny ocean plants of necessary nutrients. However, they still do not know if the loss of phytoplankton is a long-term trend or a climate oscillation. Scientists can monitor ocean and planetary health through phytoplankton. Since the whole ocean food chain depends on the health and productivity of phytoplankton, a significant change could indicate a shift in our climate. Phytoplankton consists of many diverse species of microscopic free-floating ocean plants that form the base of the ocean's food chain. These plants thrive on sunlight and nutrients. Limit either one and phytoplankton will not grow. This animation shows the Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI) in red and the net primary production NPP anomaly in units of Tgrams carbon per month in green. The MEI is a multivariate index that incorporates sea level pressure, surface zonal and meridional wind components, sea surface temperature, surface air temperature, and cloudiness (Wolter and Timlin, 1998). The MEI index is calculated for the tropical Pacific (i.e., between 10 degrees North and 10 degrees South, from Asia to the Americas) with units of kg m-3. The Net Primary Production (NPP) data was generated from the Vertically Generalized Production Model (VGPM). The VGPM data set is available at the following URL: http://web.science.oregonstate.eduocean.productivity/ . As the sea surface temperature warms, the production levels decrease. || ", "hits": 55 }, { "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": 53 }, { "id": 3387, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3387/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-12-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "SeaWiFS Biosphere from 1997 to 2006", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the Seastar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. This animation represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land. A recent study indicates there is a correlation between this ocean nutrients and changes in sea surface temperature (SST). The results show that when SSTs warm, marine plant life in the form of microscopic phytoplankton declines. When SSTs cool, marine plant life flourishes. Changes in phytoplankton growth influence fishery yields and the amount of carbon dioxide the oceans remove from the atmosphere. This could have major implications on the future of our ocean's food web and how it relates to climate change. Once the animation pulls out to a full global view, the remaining animation can be compared to the 'MODIS Sea Surface Temperature from 2002 to 2006' animation. || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 3388, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3388/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-12-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "MODIS Sea Surface Temperature from 2002 to 2006", "description": "A recent study indicates there is a correlation between ocean nutrients and changes in sea surface temperature (SST). The results show that when ocean water warms, marine plant life in the form of microscopic phytoplankton tend to decline. When water cools, plant life flourishes. Changes in phytoplankton growth influence fishery yields and the amount of carbon dioxide the oceans remove from the atmosphere. This could have major implications on the future of our ocean's food web and how it relates to climate change.The temperature data in this visualization comes from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) onboard NASA's Terra and Aqua spacecraft.In order to see the correlation between SST and SeaWiFS data, this animation can be compared to the latter part of the 'SeaWiFS Biosphere from 1997 to 2006' animation. || ", "hits": 9 }, { "id": 3389, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3389/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-12-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "MODIS Sea Surface Temperature Highlighting the Gulf Stream (2002 to 2006)", "description": "A recent study indicates a correlation between ocean nutrients and changes sea surface temperature (SST). The results show that when SSTs warm, marine plant life in the form of microscopic phytoplankton declines. Similarly, when SSTs cool, marine plant life seems to flourish. Changes in phytoplankton growth influence fishery yields and the amount of carbon dioxide the oceans remove from the atmosphere. This could have major implications on the future of our ocean's food web and how it relates to climate change.The temperature data in this visualization comes from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) onboard NASA's Terra and Aqua spacecraft. || ", "hits": 12 }, { "id": 3450, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3450/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-12-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "SeaWiFS Biosphere Data over the North Atlantic", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the Seastar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. This animation represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land. || ", "hits": 20 }, { "id": 3468, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3468/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-12-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "SeaWiFS Biosphere Data over the North Atlantic (Slow Version)", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the Seastar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. This animation represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land.This animation is essentially the same as animation #3450 with a few minor changes and runs at half the speed. || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 3510, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3510/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-12-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "MODIS Sea Surface Temperature from 2002 to 2006 around Australia", "description": "A recent study indicates there is a correlation between ocean nutrients and changes in sea surface temperature (SST). The results show that when ocean water warms, marine plant life in the form of microscopic phytoplankton tend to decline. When water cools, plant life flourishes. Changes in phytoplankton growth influence fishery yields and the amount of carbon dioxide the oceans remove from the atmosphere. This could have major implications on the future of our ocean's food web and how it relates to climate change.The temperature data in this visualization comes from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) onboard NASA's Terra and Aqua spacecraft.In order to see the correlation between SST and SeaWiFS data, this animation can be compared to 'SeaWiFS Biosphere Data over Australia'. Please click here to see this other animation. || ", "hits": 8 }, { "id": 3599, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3599/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-12-05T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Phytoplankton Blooms through the Eyes of SeaWiFS Data", "description": "The SeaWiFS instrument aboard the Seastar satellite has been collecting ocean data since 1997. By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. This animation represents nearly a decade's worth of data taken by the SeaWiFS instrument, showing the abundance of life in the sea. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there is little life due to lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas. The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land. Dark gray indicate areas where no data was collected. || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 554, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/554/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "1999-01-21T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "SeaWiFS Gulf of Mexico Eastern U.S. Fly-by", "description": "The Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) satellite was launched in August 1997 to collect global ocean color data. Ocean color traces the concentration of phytoplankton, microscopic plants that are the first link in the marine food web. SeaWiFS scientists also developed a way of observing land vegetation with the satellite. This 'true color' visualization of eastern North America supplies a realistic and penetrating view of sea, land, and atmosphere in early April 1998. || ", "hits": 20 } ] }