Earth ID: 3878

NASA's "Loop" Poster

Visualizations by Alex Kekesi Released on October 26, 2011

This image was generated for the NASA "Loop" Science On a Sphere poster. The land data used is from NASA's Next Generation Blue Marble. Clouds are from NASA/Goddard's Global Modeling & Assimilation Office.

Print resolution image of the Earth cropped to mostly show the southern hemisphere. At the time of creation, the team wasn't sure how much of the southern hemisphere was going to be used in the final poster image.

Print resolution image of the official "Loop" poster. A pdf version of this poster can be downloaded at the "Loop" website. (Poster designed by Vicky Weeks & Michael Starobin. Flower created by Tyler Chase.)

Visualization Credits

Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Victoria Weeks (HTSI): Video Editor
Michael Starobin (HTSI): Producer
Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
William Putman (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
Terra

Data Used:

Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Blue Marble Land Cover

Credit:
The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

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GEOS-5 Atmospheric Model on the Cubed-Sphere also referred to as: GEOS-5 Cubed-Sphere

Model - NASA GMAO

The model is the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 30-days. GEOS-5 is described here http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5/ and the cubed-sphere work is described here http://sivo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cubedsphere_overview.html.

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This item is part of this series:
Science On a Sphere

Keywords:
SVS >> Beauty Shot
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Clouds
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