Earth  ID: 2231

Aerosols and Warming Change with Time - Version 2

Visualizations by Tom Bridgman Released on August 13, 2001
As the aerosol content and solar heating change with time, the atmosphere and the Earth's surface experience different warming and cooling. This animation displays a time series of the INDOEX region with 8-day averages showing aerosol and solar reflectance (albedo) data from the Terra satellite. From these, we see how these inputs generate warming of the atmosphere (Atmospheric Forcing - red regions) and cooling of the surface (Surface Forcing - dark regions). Areas of missing data (due to clouds, etc.) are either black or transparent.
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Movie showing how aerosol content and albedo can change temperature forcing.
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Data for January 8, 2001
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Data for January 16, 2001
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Data for January 24, 2001
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Data for February 1, 2001
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Data for February 9, 2001
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Data for February 17, 2001
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Data for February 25, 2001
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Data for March 5, 2001
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Data for March 13, 2001
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Data for March 21, 2001
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Color bars for all datasets

Visualization Credits

Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Veerabhadran Ramanathan (Scripps Institution of Oceanography): Scientist
Anand K. Inamdar (Scripps Institution of Oceanography): Scientist
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
Terra

Data Used:
Terra/CERES
2001/01/01-2001/03/21
The CERES instrument aboard many Earth-orbiting satellites records the flow of reflected Solar radiation and reprocessed longwave radiation in the Earth's radiation budget.
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Terra/MODIS
2001/01/01-2001/03/21
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This item is part of this series:
Aerosols and Warming

Keywords:
DLESE >> Atmospheric science
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Aerosols
SVS >> CERES
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0