Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Hurricane Isabel: Under the Hood (with popout boxes)
This visualization shows NOAA/GOES infrared (IR) data of Hurricane Isabel as it makes its way across the Atlantic towards landfall. The track of Isabel is shown using a color code to indicate the storm's category: green=tropical depression, yellow=tropical storm, red=categroy 1, light red=category 2, purple=category 3, light purple=category4, white=category 5. The inset box on the left shows how the distribution of rainfall (circular sturctures below) and heat inside the storm (oblong structures above) fluctuated dramatically as the storm changed intensities. The warm core of the hurricane was the engine that drove the storm, allowing it to draw up energy from the ocean, gathering strength and size. The inset box to the right shows vital statistics about the hurricane including wind speed, pressure, etc. The background only of this animation (without the inset boxes) can be found under animation ID 2995.
Hurricane Isabel with rain structures and warm core
Metadata
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Sensor
TRMM/PR, GOES/HIRS, GOES/AMSU -
Animation ID
2996 -
Video ID
NONE -
Start Timecode
00:00:00:00 -
End Timecode
00:00:00:00 -
Animator
Greg Shirah, Lori Perkins, Marte Newcombe, Alex Kekesi -
Studio
SVS -
Visualization Date
2004/09/01 -
Scientist
Jeff Halverson (NASA/GSFC) -
Keywords
hurricane -
Data Date
GOES IR: 2003/09/07-2003/09/19, GOES AMSU: 2003/09/07-2003/09/19, TRMM/PR: 2004/09/08, 2004/09/10, 2004/09/12, 2004/09/14-16 -
Animation Type
Regular -
Other Credits
AMSU data from Chris Velden (University of Wisconsin)
