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"description": "No description available.", "hits": 85 }, { "id": 12983, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12983/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-27T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dust in the Wind", "description": "Dust, salt and smoke swirling in the air tell a story of summer 2017. || CoverStill.png (1920x1080) [2.3 MB] || CoverStill_1024x576.jpg (1024x576) [130.9 KB] || CoverStill_print.jpg (1024x576) [140.9 KB] || CoverStill_searchweb.png (320x180) [110.4 KB] || CoverStill_thm.png (80x40) [7.7 KB] || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 30910, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30910/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2017-11-13T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Simulation of Aerosols During the 2017 North Atlantic Hurricane Season", "description": "This animation shows the effects of hurricanes on dust, smoke, and sea salt. || plot_aerosols-northamerica_F517R06K-GEOS_06KM-REPLAY-20170915_1200_print.jpg (1024x567) [160.5 KB] || 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Aerosols come from both natural and human sources and include things like sea salt, dust, soot, and sulfates. Aerosols often contribute to air pollution and poor visibility. Once they are in the atmosphere, they can travel long distances, affecting air quality far from their source. Aerosols also absorb or reflect energy (light), influencing temperatures in the atmosphere and on the ground. Satellites measure aerosols by how much light can pass through them. A thick layer of aerosols will block the ground from view, while a thin layer allows enough light through to see the ground. The measurement is called aerosol optical thickness.The GEOS model is built on satellite data and provides a forecast of aerosol optical thickness (among other things). This animation shows a daily updated 10-day forecast of aerosol optical thickness from GEOS. The date and timestamp are in the lower left corner. In general, brighter colors are thick aerosols, while dull darker colors are thin aerosols. Blue represents sea salt (sea salt extinction aerosol optical thickness, 550 nm). Winds blowing across the ocean kicks up ocean spray, which includes sea salt. In the animation, pale blue to white colors reflect stormy conditions. Individual large storms like tropical cyclones (hurricanes, typhoons) are visible as swirling circles of thick sea salt. Red represents dust (dust extinction aerosol optical thickness, 550 nm). The Saharan Desert of northern Africa is the largest source of dust, but dust can be seen across the globe. Saharan dust often interacts with tropical cyclones.Green represents the sum of aerosol optical thickness for organic carbon, black carbon, and sulfate. Organic and black carbon come from burning biomass or fossil fuels. Sources include fires, power plants, vehicles, and other combustion engines that run on fossil fuel. 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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.Imagine you're flying 438 miles above the Earth taking pictures and collecting information of everything below. What do you see? Now imagine you’ve been doing this non-stop for over 40 years. Do you notice any change? A satellite series named Landsat has been doing exactly that. As a NASA scientist, I've been using Landsat-8 (the current satellite) data for a long time. Yet it's still amazing to create images of salt reflecting a brilliant white in a natural color scene, or seeing it turn a beautiful cyan using an infrared perspective. With the right tools I can discern patterns in the salt or make visible the phytoplankton dancing on the blue ocean. I've observed cities grow, forests recover from fire, islands form, and more. Our world is constantly changing.When sunlight hits the Earth's surface, it is absorbed, reflected, or scattered, resulting in different wavelengths of light leaving the Earth. Landsat-8 measures the visible and infrared wavelengths in 30-meter pixels and in order to \"see\" the image, we assign particular colors to different wavelengths. || ", "hits": 18 }, { "id": 4378, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4378/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2015-10-02T17:00:00-04:00", "title": "Visualizations: A NASA Eye View of Our Earth", "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.Nearly every time I give a talk at the Hyperwall — a genius NASA creation which combines 9 to 15 high definition screens together to show amazing visualizations, pictures, movies and more — I always like to start with the GEOS-5 model of aerosols. This visualization shows how different types of aerosols (black and organic carbon, sea salt, dust, and sulfates) move around our planet. From this mesmerizing movie, you can see where dust storms originate from the Sahara, where fires in the Amazon are spewing black carbon into the atmosphere and how sea salt is spiraling around the southern oceans in huge bands.The funny thing is that this visualization has very little to do with my own research... I just think it is really cool and most people agree with me! By getting them engaged through this visualization, they quickly see how our Earth system is interconnected and how a dust storm over China could actually impact them in their own backyards in the U.S.As a scientist, I always get excited when someone asks me about my work with the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. Usually when I start describing how the GPM Core satellite measures rainfall and why it's important, I do a lot of hand waving. Sometimes I try to describe what we can do with satellites with a metaphor or two. Those are all helpful in painting a picture. But what really seems to make the point is when I pull up a particular visualization of a dozen or so different satellites all taking precipitation measurements over the globe within the same 3-hour window. 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Here are five striking scenes created from Landsat satellite observations. || ", "hits": 129 }, { "id": 11585, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11585/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-07-10T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mapping Soil Moisture", "description": "To improve weather forecasts and build better climate models, scientists are looking at changes in soil moisture. Soil moisture is a measurement of the amount of water contained within soil particles. In 2011, NASA and the Argentina space agency launched the Aquarius/SAC-D satellite to observe the salt content of the ocean surface. But researchers also developed a method for the satellite to provide global maps of soil moisture. Orbiting Earth at an altitude of 400 miles, the satellite measures the wetness of soil by detecting microwave energy that's naturally emitted from the top two inches of land. The maps show how severe weather and seasonal cycles affect soil conditions in different parts of the world—information that can be used to help predict the onset of floods or drought. Watch the video to learn more. || ", "hits": 58 }, { "id": 11504, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11504/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-03-13T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA On Air: NASA's Aquarius Measures Ocean Salinity (3/13/2014)", "description": "LEAD: NASA's Aquarius instrument is observing the saltiness of the ocean surface from space.1. Bright orange colors = very salty. Blue = lower saltiness.2. Flying 400 miles above Earth, Aquarius can detect a change as little as a pinch of salt in a gallon of water.3. 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The map reveals well-known ocean salinity features, such as higher salinity in the subtropics, higher average salinity in the Atlantic Ocean compared to the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and lower salinity in rainy belts near the equator, in the northernmost Pacific Ocean and elsewhere. || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 11333, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11333/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-08-02T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Zebra Crossing", "description": "Botswana's Okavango Delta and the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans are two ends of a 360-mile round trip zebra migration, the second longest on Earth. In this animation, shades of red show dry areas, green represents vegetation, and the dots show GPS tracked zebras. The zebras begin at the Okavango Delta in late September. After the dry Southern hemisphere winter, November rains signal it is time to begin their two-week journey to the Salt Pans. The zebras feast on nutrient-rich grasses all summer, and return to the Delta as the rain peters out in April.Fences blocked this zebra migration from 1968 to 2004. After they came down, researchers began tracking zebras with GPS and discovered this migration. They compared the zebras' location to NASA satellite data of rainfall and vegetation, and they found that migrating zebras have quickly learned when to leave the Delta and the Salt Pans using environmental cues. Researchers then use these cues to predict when the zebras will be on the move, a powerful tool for conservation. || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 30053, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30053/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-06-25T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dead Sea Salt Farming", "description": "The Dead Sea is so named because its high salinity discourages the growth of fish, plants, and other wildlife. It is the lowest surface feature on Earth, sitting roughly 1,300 feet below sea level. On a hot, dry summer day, the water level can drop as much as one inch because of evaporation. These three false-color images were captured in 1972, 1989, and 2011 by Landsat satellites. Deep waters are blue or dark blue, while brighter blues indicate shallow waters or salt ponds. Green indicates sparsely vegetated lands. Denser vegetation appears bright red. The ancient Egyptians used salts from the Dead Sea for mummification, fertilizers, and potash (a potassium-based salt). In the modern age, sodium chloride and potassium salts culled from the sea are used for water conditioning, road de-icing, and the manufacturing of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics. The expansions of massive salt evaporation projects are clearly visible over the span of 39 years. || ", "hits": 158 }, { "id": 11195, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11195/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-03-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Ship Tracks Off North America", "description": "Though they resemble airplane contrails, it was actually ships churning across open water that left this cluster of serpentine cloud trails lingering over the eastern Pacific Ocean. The narrow clouds, known as ship tracks, form when water vapor condenses around small particles of pollution released into the air as part of ship exhaust. Some of these particles are soluble in water and serve as seeds around which cloud droplets form. Clouds infused with ship exhaust end up having more and smaller droplets than unpolluted clouds. As a result, light hitting these exhaust-infused clouds scatters in many directions, making them appear brighter than standard marine clouds, which are typically seeded by naturally-occurring particles of sea salt. Watch the video to see how wind patterns change the shape of these clouds over the course of a day. || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 11193, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11193/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-03-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Salty Motion", "description": "The saltiness of the sea surface varies depending on where and when you're looking. Heavy rainfall, river outflows, ocean currents, sea ice melt, evaporation and other seasonal phenomena can all alter salinity—and scientists can now see these changes in clear detail. NASA's Aquarius mission has collected the agency's first full year of satellite ocean surface salinity measurements, revealing a colorful and dynamic portrait of our salty seas. Salinity shifts, a powerful driver of global ocean currents, are also a fingerprint of variations in Earth's fresh water cycle, providing valuable information on how a changing climate is altering global rainfall patterns. Before Aquarius, researchers had only snapshots of the ocean's salt content variations. With global satellite measurements, they will now be able to see how salinity changes over time. Watch the video to learn more about our ocean's salty motions. || ", "hits": 52 }, { "id": 30017, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30017/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2013-03-07T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "GEOS-5 Nature Run Collection", "description": "Through numerical experiments that simulate the dynamical and physical processes governing weather and climate variability of Earth's atmosphere, models create a dynamic portrait of our planet. This 10-kilometer global mesoscale simulation (Nature Run) using the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System Model (GEOS-5) explores the evolution of surface temperatures as the sun heats the Earth and fuels cloud formation in the tropics and along baroclinic zones; the presence of water vapor and precipitation within these global weather patterns; the dispersion of global aerosols from dust, biomass burning, fossil fuel emissions, and volcanoes; and the winds that transport these aerosols from the surface to upper-levels.The full GEOS-5 simulation covered 2 years—from May 2005 to May 2007. It ran on 3,750 processors of the Discover supercomputer at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation, consuming 3 million processor hours and producing over 400 terabytes of data. GEOS-5 development is funded by NASA's Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction Program. || ", "hits": 196 }, { "id": 11063, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11063/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-08-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Trading Spaces", "description": "In the last forty years, Phoenix has grown to become one of the most populated places in the United States. The city and its surrounding area currently hold spots on the U.S. Census Bureau's top ten lists of cities and counties, ranking sixth and fourth, respectively. As Phoenix evolved from an agricultural to industrial economy, farmland was pushed to the outskirts in order to make way for suburban developments that stretched southeast and northwest of the city. Between 1974 and 2007, nearly 250,000 acres of agricultural fields were lost. During the same period a fourfold increase in residents brought the region's population to just below the 4 million mark. Witness the transformation of Phoenix in the time-lapse video of false color images captured by USGS-NASA Landsat satellites between 1972 and 2011. || ", "hits": 46 }, { "id": 11042, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11042/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-07-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Vermilion Parish, LA", "description": "Timelapse of six years in southern Vermilion Parish, Louisiana (1973, 1980, 1986, 1992, 2003, 2010) land being overtaken by water. In these images from Landsat data, red indicates healthy vegetation and shades of blue indicate water. || Pecan_Island_2011.jpg (1280x720) [349.5 KB] || Pecan_Island_2003.jpg (1280x720) [369.1 KB] || Pecan_Island_1992.jpg (1280x720) [335.4 KB] || Pecan_Island_1986.jpg (1280x720) [350.0 KB] || 7-Loveland-1-Pecan_series.00002_print.jpg (1024x576) [148.9 KB] || Pecan_Island_1980.jpg (1280x720) [464.4 KB] || Pecan_Island_1973.jpg (1280x720) [290.8 KB] || 7-Loveland-1-Pecan_series_web.png (320x180) [288.7 KB] || 7-Loveland-1-Pecan_series_thm.png (80x40) [17.6 KB] || 7-Loveland-1-Pecan_series_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [18.7 MB] || 7-Loveland-1-Pecan_series_appletv.m4v (960x540) [13.4 MB] || 7-Loveland-1-Pecan_series_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [13.6 MB] || 7-Loveland-1-Pecan_series_720x480.webmhd.webm (960x540) [4.2 MB] || 7-Loveland-1-Pecan_series.mov (640x360) [9.9 MB] || 7-Loveland-1-Pecan_series_720x480.wmv (720x480) [7.7 MB] || 7-Loveland-1-Pecan_series_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [5.5 MB] || GSFC_20120723_Landsat_m11042_Vermilion.en_US.vtt [64 bytes] || 7-Loveland-1-Pecan_series_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [2.1 MB] || 7-Loveland-1-Pecan_series_prores.mov (1280x720) [602.1 MB] || landsat_vermillion_parish_bigmovie.hwshow [57 bytes] || ", "hits": 87 }, { "id": 10977, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10977/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-05-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Paint By Particle", "description": "Satellites, balloon-borne instruments and ground-based devices make 30 million observations of the atmosphere each day. Yet these measurements still give an incomplete picture of the complex interactions within the membrane surrounding Earth. Enter climate models. Through mathematical experiments, modelers can move Earth forward or backward in time to create a dynamic portrait of the planet. Researchers from NASA Goddard's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office recently ran a simulation of the atmosphere that captured how winds whip aerosols around the world. Such simulations allow scientists to better understand how these tiny particulates travel in the atmosphere and influence weather and climate. In the visualization below, covering August 2006 to April 2007, watch as dust and sea salt swirl inside cyclones, carbon bursts from fires, sulfate streams from volcanoes—and see how these aerosols paint the modeled world. || ", "hits": 141 }, { "id": 40098, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/landsat/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2012-02-23T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat", "description": "Since 1972, Landsat satellites have consistently gathered data about our planet for the benefit of the U.S. and the world. The Landsat data archive is the longest continuous remotely sensed global record of Earth’s surface, with all the data free and available to the public. The Landsat satellite missions, jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, are a central pillar of our national remote sensing capability and established the U.S. as a leader in land imaging.\n\nLandsat 9 is the next satellite in the program, and will add more than 700 scenes a day to this invaluable archive. As Earth’s population approaches 8 billion, Landsat 9 will extend our ability to detect and characterize land surface changes, and will do so at a scale where researchers can differentiate between natural and human-induced change. \r\n \r\nLand cover and land use are changing globally at rates unprecedented in human history. These changes bring profound consequences for weather, ecosystems, resource management, the economy, carbon storage and emissions, human health, and other aspects of society. Landsat datasets are a critical tool in monitoring and managing essential resources in a changing world.\r\n\nBelow are highlights of Landsat videos and graphics. Follow this link to see the entire collection of Landsat multimedia.\n", "hits": 287 }, { "id": 10884, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10884/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-01-10T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Water Cycle: Watering The Land", "description": "Water vapor drifting above the oceans is carried over land by winds, and eventually falls to the surface in the form of rain and snow. As evaporated water rises in the atmosphere, it expands and cools. In the presence of dust, ice or salt, water vapor in the saturated air condenses around these particles into tiny droplets or ice crystals, forming clouds. Around half of our planet is covered with clouds at any one time. Since clouds reflect sunlight away from the Earth, they play a vital role in the Earth's climate and energy balance. As these droplets and ice crystals accumulate more water, they become heavier and are pulled from the sky by gravity as rain and snow. In this way, water is returned to land in a form that plants and animals can use. About 100 trillion tons of water falls on land each year, compared to 400 trillion tons over the oceans. Watch how water vapor moves through the atmosphere and returns to Earth as rain and snow in the visualizations below—first on a globe and then on a map of the entire world. || ", "hits": 156 }, { "id": 10839, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10839/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-10-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Crisscrossing Clouds", "description": "Since 1965 scientists have observed unusual cloud lines that crisscross over the ocean in certain satellite images. Researchers initially speculated that aircraft, missiles, or even natural patterns of air circulation might have caused the oddly shaped clouds to form. But ultimately seafaring ships proved to be the culprits; specifically tiny particles found in the exhaust that billows from their smokestacks. The streaky clouds, called ship tracks, are found throughout the world's oceans. They form in the same manner as marine clouds, which are made of individual cloud droplets created when water condenses around sea salt and other airborne particles known as aerosols. Ship fumes, however, inject extra particles into the air that boost the overall number of particles and cause an abundance of small, more reflective cloud droplets to form. The result: lines of unusually bright and narrow clouds such as those seen in the video below. || ", "hits": 92 }, { "id": 10771, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10771/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-08-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Pinch Of Salt From Space", "description": "NASA gave the command last week to power on its newest Earth-observing satellite, Aquarius. It may seem a somewhat peculiar measurement to make, but Aquarius, which launched in June 2011, will measure salinity across all the oceans every week. The data will undoubtedly help answer some of our most pressing questions about climate change. Why measure ocean salinity? The density of ocean water is determined by salinity and water temperature. Density drives the pattern of deep ocean currents, and ocean currents drive global climate. In recent decades, scientists have seen ocean salinity shift in ways that only climate change seems able to explain. Until now, salinity data came from slow-moving ships and a network of floating sensors that could only provide a limited global picture. Satellite technology changes that: From 400 miles (644 km) above Earth Aquarius' hypersensitive microwave radiometer can detect differences in ocean salinity to within a pinch of salt in a gallon of water. Let the science begin. || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 10766, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10766/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-05-04T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "HD Earth Views from Space", "description": "NASA presents images of Earth captured by cameras aboard the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle. Traveling at an approximate speed of 17,500 miles per hour, the space station orbits Earth every 90 minutes from an altitude of approximately 220 miles, and can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. Its crew experiences 16 sunrises and sunsets each day.Get more information about the \"Home Frontier Earth Day Video Contest\".Footage is in Apple ProRes 422 format, 1280x720 aspect ratio, 59.94 fps. || ", "hits": 1548 }, { "id": 40083, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/aquarius/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2010-11-30T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Aquarius Mission", "description": "During its nominal three-year mission, Aquarius will map the\rsalinity at the ocean surface to improve our understanding of\rEarth's water cycle and ocean circulation. Aquarius will help\rscientists see how freshwater moves between the ocean and\rthe atmosphere. It will monitor changes in the water cycle due\rto rainfall, evaporation, ice melting, and river runoff.", "hits": 101 }, { "id": 40078, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/earth-science-education/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2010-09-26T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Earth Science Educator Resources", "description": "On this page is a collection of Goddard video pieces that have been created for education related events. You will find recordings of past webcasts, earth science web shorts and professional development resources. We hope this will become your first stop when shopping for multimedia lesson objects to apply in your classroom.", "hits": 47 }, { "id": 10504, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10504/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Salt of the Earth", "description": "Salinity plays a major role in how ocean waters circulate around the globe. Salinity changes can create ocean circulation changes that, in turn, may impact regional and global climates. The extent to which salinity impacts our global ocean circulation is still relatively unknown, but NASA's new Aquarius mission will help advance that understanding by painting a global picture of our planet's salty waters.For complete transcript, click here. || Salt_of_the_Earth_640x480.00519_print.jpg (1024x576) [66.1 KB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_640x480_web.png (320x180) [106.1 KB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_640x480_thm.png (80x40) [12.6 KB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_appletv_1280x720.webmhd.webm (960x540) [65.9 MB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_H264_1280x720_30fps.mov (1280x720) [150.0 MB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_appletv_1280x720.m4v (960x540) [166.5 MB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_1280x720.mp4 (1280x720) [99.9 MB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_broll_prores.mov (1280x720) [4.7 GB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_Youtube_1280x720.mov (1280x720) [72.2 MB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_640x480.m4v (640x360) [55.1 MB] || GSFC_20091012_Aquarius_m10504_Salt.en_US.srt [6.0 KB] || GSFC_20091012_Aquarius_m10504_Salt.en_US.vtt [6.1 KB] || Salt_of_the_Earth_ipod_320x240.m4v (320x180) [23.1 MB] || Salt_of_the_Earth.wmv (346x260) [35.0 MB] || ", "hits": 190 }, { "id": 3652, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3652/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2009-10-09T13:24:00-04:00", "title": "Sea Surface Temperature, Salinity and Density", "description": "Sea Surface TemperatureThe oceans of the world are heated at the surface by the sun, and this heating is uneven for many reasons. The Earth's axial rotation, revolution about the sun, and tilt all play a role, as do the wind-driven ocean surface currents. The first animation in this group shows the long-term average sea surface temperature, with red and yellow depicting warmer waters and blue depicting colder waters. The most obvious feature of this temperature map is the variation of the temperature by latitude, from the warm region along the equator to the cold regions near the poles. Another visible feature is the cooler regions just off the western coasts of North America, South America, and Africa. On these coasts, winds blow from land to ocean and push the warm water away from the coast, allowing cooler water to rise up from deeper in the ocean. || ", "hits": 886 }, { "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": 64 }, { "id": 10387, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10387/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Aerosols Impact Cloud Formation", "description": "Aerosols are complex particles; they occur in nature and can also be generated by human activity. One important new area of aerosol research involves how aerosols impact clouds. Without aerosols, clouds could not exist. Aerosol particles serve as condensation nuclei for water vapor in the atmosphere. Atmospheric water molecules are drawn to aerosol particles like magnets, forming water droplets and eventually creating a cloud. The introduction of a larger number of aerosols will modify cloud's natural properties, leading to an accumulation of water droplets that are smaller in size but greater in number. Clouds play an important role in regulating Earth's climate; aerosol-rich air masses generate clouds that are bigger, brighter, and longer lasting. || ", "hits": 471 }, { "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": 79 }, { "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": 255 }, { "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": 46 }, { "id": 20112, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20112/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2007-09-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "AIM's Cosmic Dust Experiment and Cloud Formation", "description": "Like clouds in other parts of the atmosphere, one element required for polar mesospheric clouds to form is tiny dust particles on which water vapor can accumulate and grow into ice crystals. Nearer to Earth's surface, clouds form from 'cloud condensation nuclei' that can be sea salt spray, desert dust, or other materials lofted from the surface. In the mesosphere it is thought that cosmic dust particles falling into the Earth's atmosphere might serve this same purpose, and the Cosmic Dust Experiment instrument on the Aeronomy of Ice Mission will be able to identify how important cosmic dust particles are in the lifecycle of these clouds. || ", "hits": 117 }, { "id": 20085, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20085/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2006-10-04T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Ocean Convection at High Altitudes - Normal Condition", "description": "Understanding the variability of the density of ocean water is critical to understanding changes in the ocean's circulation, particularly those parts of the circulation that pertain to climate. In the tropics, the sun warms the surface water and causes that water to expand. Because the surface water is now less dense than the cooler water below, the warmest waters remain near the surface. Near the poles, the energy input by the sun is not as strong, and the surface waters are not warmed to the degree they are away from the poles. Here, it is the salinity of the water plays a critical role as to which water is found at the surface as the waters near the surface are not that much different in temperature to the water below. These animations highlight the crucial role of salinity in high latitude convection (upward and downward movement of water) and climate.This animation, labeled Normal, is a display of the way convection might often occur at high latitudes. Here the water initially is assumed to be almost constant in temperature and salinity from top to bottom. At the times when the air immediately above is colder than the water, there is a transfer of heat from the water to the atmosphere. The surface waters cool, condense, become more dense and ultimately sink. Because the cooling can be very intense at high latitudes, the surface water can cool enough to sink to the bottom. Note in this animation that the convection is depicted to occur in a narrow, almost chimney like area. This is very much the way nature and deep convection behaves at high latitudes. Note later in this animation, the coldest water has made its way to the bottom and it appears the water is moving from right to left near the bottom. This depiction is meant to indicate a movement toward the tropics at these depths. || ", "hits": 168 }, { "id": 3293, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3293/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-02-15T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Habitat Suitability for Tamarisk Invasion in the State of New Mexico", "description": "The Invasive Species Forecasting System (ISFS) is a partnership between NASA and The US Geological Survey (USGS). The ISFS combines NASA Earth observations and statistical models to enhance USGS capabilities to map, monitor and predict the spread of significant invasive plant species. This video shows the habitat suitability for a Tamarisk invasion in New Mexico. New Mexico is vulnerable to a Tamarisk invasion with 13.55% of the states area classified as 95% suitable for Tamarisk habitat. Tamarisk spreads quickly along riverbeds and when it sheds its leaves, this foliage secretes salt on the soil, hindering other plant growth. Red indicates areas that are highly suitable for Tamarisk. Yellow indicates areas which are less suitable, and gray indicates areas which are not suitable. || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 3297, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3297/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-02-15T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Habitat Suitability for Tamarisk Invasion in the State of Arizona", "description": "The Invasive Species Forecasting System (ISFS) is a partnership between NASA and The US Geological Survey (USGS). The ISFS combines NASA Earth observations and statistical models to enhance USGS capabilities to map, monitor and predict the spread of significant invasive plant species. This video shows the habitat suitability for a Tamarisk invasion in the state of Arizona. Tamarisk spreads quickly along riverbeds and when it sheds its leaves, this foliage secretes salt on the soil, which hinders other plant growth. Red indicates areas that are highly suitable for Tamarisk. Yellow indicates areas which are less suitable, and gray are areas which are not suitable. || ", "hits": 13 }, { "id": 3298, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3298/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-02-15T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Habitat Suitability for Tamarisk Invasion in the State of Nevada", "description": "The Invasive Species Forecasting System (ISFS) is a partnership between NASA and The US Geological Survey (USGS). The ISFS combines NASA Earth observations and statistical models to enhance USGS capabilities to map, monitor and predict the spread of significant invasive plant species. This video shows the habitat suitability for a Tamarisk invasion in the state of Nevada. Tamarisk spreads quickly along riverbeds and when it sheds its leaves, this foliage secretes salt on the soil, which hinders other plant growth. Red indicates areas that are highly suitable for Tamarisk. Yellow indicates areas which are less suitable, and gray are areas which are not suitable. || ", "hits": 6 }, { "id": 3299, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3299/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-02-15T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Habitat Suitability for Tamarisk Invasion in the State of California", "description": "The Invasive Species Forecasting System (ISFS) is a partnership between NASA and The US Geological Survey (USGS). The ISFS combines NASA Earth observations and statistical models to enhance USGS capabilities to map, monitor and predict the spread of significant invasive plant species. This video shows the habitat suitability for a Tamarisk invasion in the state of California. Tamarisk spreads quickly along riverbeds and when its leaves shed, they secrete salt on the soil, which can hinder other plant growth. Red indicates areas that are highly suitable. Yellow indicates areas which are less suitable, and gray are areas which are not suitable. || ", "hits": 8 }, { "id": 3300, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3300/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-02-15T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Habitat Suitability for Tamarisk Invasion in the State of Colorado", "description": "The Invasive Species Forecasting System (ISFS) is a partnership between NASA and The US Geological Survey (USGS). The ISFS combines NASA Earth observations and statistical models to enhance USGS capabilities to map, monitor and predict the spread of significant invasive plant species. This video shows the habitat suitability for a Tamarisk invasion in the state of California. Tamarisk spreads quickly along riverbeds and when its leaves shed, they secrete salt on the soil, which can hinder other plant growth. Red indicates areas that are highly suitable for Tamarisk growth. Yellow indicates areas which are less suitable, and gray are areas which are not suitable. The study used field surveys of species richness, one 30m spatial resolution Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) image, and a three year time-series of 250m spatial resolution Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) imagery over three sites. Actual tamarisk presence data from the field surveys are shown in green. || ", "hits": 9 }, { "id": 3332, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3332/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-02-15T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Deriving the Tamarisk Suitability Map: The Complete Story", "description": "The spread of invasive species is one of the most daunting environmental, economic, and human-health problems facing the United States and the World today. It is one of several grand challenge environmental problems being addressed by NASA's Science Mission Directorate through a national application partnership with the US Geological Survey. NASA and USGS are working together to develop a National Invasive Species Forecasting System (ISFS) for the management and control of invasive species on Department of Interior and adjacent lands. The system provides a framework for using USGS's early detection and monitoring protocols and predictive models to process MODIS, ETM+, ASTER and commercial remote sensing data. It can also be used to create on-demand, regional-scale assessments of invasive species patterns and vulnerable habitats. Tamarisk (Salt Ceder) is an invasive plant that typically grows near water and crowds out native species. Tamarisk reflective properties differ from those of its neighboring vegetation throughout the annual life cycle. These different reflective properties can be seen by the naked eye (as in the accompanying seasonal photographs), and can also be seen by satellite sensors. Current Tamarisk infestations and suitable habitats for future growth can be derived from various data sets, including EVI, NDVI, and land cover classifications. || ", "hits": 10 }, { "id": 20090, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20090/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2006-02-06T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Invasive Species: Tamarisk and Salt", "description": "Experts now estimate that Tamarisk (saltcedar) has infested more than 3.3 million acres in the western United States. Tamarisk is one of our most harmful invasive species because the plant's long roots tap into underground aquifers. Its groundwater-absorbing qualities may be adding to the severity of the drought in the western U.S.NASA and the USGS are working together to develop a National Invasive Species Forecasting System (ISFS) for the management and control of invasive species. The ISFS combines NASA Earth observations and models with field data to enhance USGS capabilities to map, monitor and predict the spread of significant invasive plant species.Tamarisk's extensive root system extracts sodium chloride, or salt, from deep within the soil. Salt collects in plant tissues allowing it to exude the excess through its leaves. Over a period of years, the plant effectively changes the natural chemistry of the soil. Native trees and plants can no longer thrive in the salt-saturated soil. || ", "hits": 89 }, { "id": 3296, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3296/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2006-01-30T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Habitat Suitability for Tamarisk Invasion in the State of Utah", "description": "The Invasive Species Forecasting System (ISFS) is a partnership between NASA and The US Geological Survey (USGS). The ISFS combines NASA Earth observations and statistical models to enhance USGS capabilities to map, monitor and predict the spread of significant invasive plant species. This video shows the habitat suitability for a Tamarisk invasion in the state of Utah. Tamarisk spreads quickly along riverbeds and when it sheds its leaves, this foliage secretes salt on the soil, which hinders other plant growth. Red indicates areas that are highly suitable for Tamarisk. 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