Hyperwall Earth

A night lights image centered on France

Singapore region on September 24 and May 25, 2015, MODIS data only || singapore_smog_24_1080p_print.jpg (1024x576) [279.3 KB] || singapore_smog_24_1080p_searchweb.png (180x320) [129.9 KB] || singapore_smog_24_1080p_thm.png (80x40) [8.0 KB] || singapore_smog_24_1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [7.0 MB] || singapore_smog_24_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [3.8 MB] || singapore_smog_24_720p.webm (1280x720) [4.6 MB] || singapore_modis_only_24_2304p.mp4 (4096x2304) [20.4 MB] || singapore_smog_24_360p.mp4 (640x360) [1.2 MB] || singapore_smog_ver2a.key [8.5 MB] || singapore_smog_ver2a.pptx [5.8 MB] ||

This animation shows the ocean surface CO₂ flux between 1/1/2009 and 12/31/2010. Blue colors indicate uptake and orange-red colors indicate outgassing of ocean carbon. The pathlines indicate surface wind stress.

This spectacular blue marble image was the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date in 2002. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet. The full resolution version of the image is 21,600 pixels across.

This classic photograph of the Earth was taken on December 7, 1972. This is a version of the image prepared for use on the hyperwall. The original caption is reprinted below: View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon. This translunar coast photograph extends from the Mediterranean Sea area to the Antarctica south polar ice cap. This is the first time the Apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap. Note the heavy cloud cover in the Southern Hemisphere. Almost the entire coastline of Africa is clearly visible. The Arabian Peninsula can be seen at the northeastern edge of Africa. The large island off the east coast of Africa is the Republic of Madagascar. The Asian mainland is on the horizon toward the northeast.

Images from DSCOVR have been prepared for use on the Hyperwall. On July 6, 2015, a NASA camera onboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from its orbit at the first Lagrange point (L1), about one million miles from Earth. This initial image, taken by DSCOVR’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), shows the effects of sunlight scattered by air molecules, giving the image a characteristic bluish tint. Once the instrument begins regular data acquisition, images will be available every day, 12 to 36 hours after they are acquired by EPIC. Data from EPIC will be used to measure ozone and aerosol levels in Earth’s atmosphere, cloud height, vegetation properties, and the ultraviolet reflectivity of Earth. NASA will use these data for a number of Earth science applications, including dust and volcanic ash maps of the entire planet.A second image, taken on July 6, 2015, is centred on central Europe and northern Africa. The primary objective of DSCOVR, a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Air Force, is to maintain the nation’s real-time solar wind monitoring capabilities, which are critical to the accuracy and lead time of space weather alerts and forecasts from NOAA. ||

Africa is front and center in this image of Earth taken by a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. The image, taken July 6 from a vantage point one million miles from Earth, was one of the first taken by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC). Central Europe is toward the top of the image with the Sahara Desert to the south, showing the Nile River flowing to the Mediterranean Sea through Egypt. The photographic-quality color image was generated by combining three separate images of the entire Earth taken a few minutes apart. The camera takes a series of 10 images using different narrowband filters -- from ultraviolet to near infrared -- to produce a variety of science products. The red, green and blue channel images are used in these Earth images.

October average minimum ozone over Antarctica

This yearlong timeseries of NO₂ from OMI run from July 2013 to July 2014.

This visualization corresponds to a hyperwall show of the material above.

Montage of six measurements made by MLS

World Avoided Ozone Full Animation

Monthly Terra/MOPITT carbon monoxide maps, March 2000 to the present.

Monthly Aqua/MODIS aerosol particle radius, July 2002 to the present.

Ozone hole size plots and October 1st images from 1979-2014

Mollweide projected animation of CO2 data from the OCO-2 mission. Data spans from September 2014 to August 2015. As the data cycles through the year, you can see an increase CO2 concentrations across the northern hemisphere going from winter to spring. Then in the summer, as vegetation reaches it's peak, there is a noticeable decline in CO2 concentration throughout the entire northern hemisphere. || global_oco2_flat4k.0700.mollweide_print.jpg (1024x512) [90.2 KB] || global_oco2_flat4k.0700.mollweide_searchweb.png (180x320) [60.4 KB] || global_oco2_flat4k.0700.mollweide_thm.png (80x40) [5.9 KB] || global_oco2_mollweide4k_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [10.0 MB] || global_oco2_mollweide4k_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [2.8 MB] || oco2_mollweide_w_dates_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [10.1 MB] || global_oco2_mollweide4k_2160p30.mp4 (4320x2160) [34.1 MB] || mollweide (4320x2160) [0 Item(s)] || mollweide_with_dates (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || oco2_mollweide_w_dates_2160p30.mp4 (3840x2160) [30.5 MB] || oco2_mollweide_w_dates_4402.key [14.1 MB] || oco2_mollweide_w_dates_4402.pptx [11.5 MB] || global_oco2_mollweide4k_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [197 bytes] || oco2_mollweide_w_dates_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [232 bytes] ||

This visualization shows rainfall-triggered landslides and precipitation from August and September of 2014 in Asia and the Himalayan Arc.

Trio of Hurricanes Over the Pacific Ocean

Animation of Sea Surface Height Anomaly for 2015 compared to 1997

Carbon exists in many forms—e.g., carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO)—and continually cycles through Earth’s atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial ecosystems. This visualization, created using data from the 7-km GEOS-5 Nature Run model, shows average column concentrations of atmospheric CO2 (colored shades) and CO (white shades underneath) from January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006.CO2 variations are largely controlled by fossil fuel emissions and seasonal fluxes of carbon between the atmosphere and land biosphere. For example, dark red and pink shades represent regions where CO2 concentrations are enhanced by carbon sources, mainly from human activities. During Northern Hemisphere spring and summer months, plants absorb a substantial amount of CO2 through photosynthesis, thus removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Atmospheric CO, a pollutant harmful to human health, is produced mainly from fossil fuel combustion and biomass burning. Here, high concentrations of CO (white) are mainly from fire activity in Africa, South America, and Australia. Scientists use model output data such as these to help answer important questions about Earth’s climate and to help design future satellite missions.These model simulations use fossil fuel emissions estimates provided by the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR). NASA’s Quick Fire Emissions Dataset (QFED) estimates fire emissions using MODIS fire radiative power observations. Additional, observationally constrained estimates of CO2 flux between the atmosphere and land and ocean carbon reservoirs were produced as part of NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System Flux Pilot Project (http://carbon.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/cms/inv_pgp.pl?pgid=581). Land biosphere fluxes come from the Carnegie-Ames-Stanford Approach Global Fire Emissions Database (CASA-GFED) model which incorporates MODIS vegetation classification and AVHRR Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data. Ocean fluxes are produced by the NASA Ocean Biogeochemical Model (NOBM) which incorporates MODIS chlorophyll observations. ||

These maps show monthly reflected-shortwave radiation from March 2000 to the present from the Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) data product. These data are produced by averaging observations collected by the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) sensors on NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites, filling in gaps and constraining the fluxes to remove the inconsistency between average global net TOA flux and heat storage in the Earth-atmosphere system. ||

CERES Net Cloud Radiative Effect || ceres_net_cre_average_2000-2015_print.jpg (1024x574) [102.2 KB] || ceres_net_cre_average_2000-2015.png (4104x2304) [2.1 MB] || ceres_net_cre_average_2000-2015_searchweb.png (320x180) [69.4 KB] || ceres_net_cre_average_2000-2015_thm.png (80x40) [6.5 KB] || ceres_net_cre_average_2000-2015_30603.pptx [3.0 MB] || ceres_net_cre_average_2000-2015_30603.key [5.6 MB] ||

Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity are compared to Rainfall

Ocean Alkalinity from August 2011 to May 2015

Animation of Sea Surface Temperature shows the evolution of the 2015-2016 ENSO event.

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Spinning globe showing TOPEX/JASON 22-year sea level data. Earth spins once before camera zooms into West Atlantic, East Pacific, and West Pacific regions. With colorbar

GRACE gravity data reveals water deficit in California.

An animation up the Greenland's Sermilik Fjord to the calving front of the Helheim Glacier, showing the glacier front's change between 2000 to 2013

Visualization of the mass change over Greenland from January 2004 through June 2014. The surface of Greenland shows the change in equivalent water height while the graph overlay shows the total accumulated change in gigatons.

An animation of mass change over the Antarctic Ice Sheet from GRACE derived gravity observations.

This animation shows the annual Arctic sea ice minimum with a graph overlay that depicts the area of the sea ice in millions of square kilometers.

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A global map of soil moisture || smap_global_moisture_20150504-20150511_PIA19337_print.jpg (1024x576) [113.1 KB] || smap_global_moisture_20150504-20150511_PIA19337.png (5760x3240) [5.3 MB] || smap_global_moisture_20150504-20150511_PIA19337_searchweb.png (320x180) [43.4 KB] || smap_global_moisture_20150504-20150511_PIA19337_thm.png (80x40) [4.7 KB] || smap_global_moisture_30601.pptx [5.8 MB] || smap_global_moisture_30601.key [8.5 MB] || smap_global_moisture_20150504-20150511_PIA19337.hwshow [262 bytes] ||

Fires at Night in the U.S. Northwest

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Radar data shows Mt Etna deforming.

Ground displacement duing the Tohoku-oki Earthquake

Radar reveals changes in Southern California groundwater.

Radar data shows subsidence.

Global view of Sea Surface Temperature

A rotating globe shows the distribution of phytoplankton the the world's oceans

This animation shows sea surface sailinity, sea ice thickness, and atmospheric precipitable water.