Sea Surface Temperature

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Recipe of a Hurricane (Part 1) - Sea Surface Temperature

This visualization was created in support of the 'Recipe for a Hurricane' live shot campaign. This visualization shows Sea Surface Temperature as measured by the NASA Aqua satellite's Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) instrument. Temperature is represented by the colors in the ocean. Orange and red indicate the necessary 82-degree and warmer sea surface temperatures for a hurricane to form. This version keeps the camera focused on the east coast of North America.

Video resolution MPEG-2 animation of AMSR-E sea surface temperatures

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/AMSR-E

  • Animation ID

    2817

  • Video ID

    SVS2003-0020

  • Start Timecode

    01:01:58:00

  • End Timecode

    01:03:05:10

  • Animator

    Greg Shirah, Jesse Allen

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2003/09/26

  • Scientist

    Jeff Halverson (University of Maryland Baltimore County)

  • Keywords

    Hurricane

  • Data Date

    2002/06/02-2003/01/22

  • Pao ID

    G03-051

  • Animation Type

    Regular