Winds of Drought, Winds of Flood - related image preview

720 x 480
JPEG

Winds of Drought, Winds of Flood - related tiff image preview placeholder

1368 x 768
1 MB Bytes - TIFF

Winds of Drought, Winds of Flood - related mpeg preview placeholder

113 MB - MPEG

Winds of Drought, Winds of Flood - related image preview

720 x 480
JPEG

Winds of Drought, Winds of Flood - related tiff image preview placeholder

1368 x 768
1 MB Bytes - TIFF

Winds of Drought, Winds of Flood - related mpeg preview placeholder

113 MB - MPEG

Winds of Drought, Winds of Flood

Made from a model based on satellite data, these animations contrast wind patterns that brought drought to the U.S. Midwest in 1988 with those that brought floods in 1993.


NASA images by Trent L. Schindler, Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center made with data from MERRA. Caption by Holli Riebeek with information from Michael Bosilovich.

Published October 5, 2010
Data acquired May 1 - July 31, 1988

Source:
Model