Earth ID: 2695

SST Anomalies + Wind Anomalies

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Released on February 3, 2003

Sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies and sea surface wind anomalies show the development of the 2002/2003 El Niño based on data from NASA's Aqua and QuikSCAT spacecraft. The wind data has been processed using the Variational Analysis Method (VAM).

Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Jesse Allen (Raytheon): Animator
David Adamec (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
QuikSCAT

Data Used:

Aqua/AMSR-E

8/01/2002 - 1/21/2003

For more information, please click http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/AMSR/

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QuikSCAT/SeaWinds

8/01/2002 - 1/21/2003

SeaWinds is a scanning dual pencil-beam Ku-band scatterometer.

http://www.mers.byu.edu/Seawinds.html

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This item is part of this series:
El Niño and La Niña

Keywords:
DLESE >> Atmospheric science
SVS >> El Nino
DLESE >> Physical oceanography
SVS >> Sea Surface Wind
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Oceans >> Ocean Temperature >> Sea Surface Temperature
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