Hurricane Isabel Model, Clouds and Precipitable Water

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Hurricane Isabel Model: Clouds and Precipitable Water

The NASA finite-volume General Circulation Model (fvGCM) was used to predict the path of hurricane Isabel, starting from a known initial state. The predicted path is compared to the actual path taken by the hurricane.

The yellow line indicates the path of hurricane Isabel. The green line indicates the path predicted by the FVGCM model. The background is a visualization of the Total Precipitable Water predicted by the model, superimposed onto the predicted cloud coverage.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    No Satellite/ No Data

  • Animation ID

    3002

  • Video ID

    NONE

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    James W. Williams, Greg Shirah, Randall Jones

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2004/09/01

  • Scientist

    William Putman (NASA/GSFC)

  • Datasets

    fvGCM

  • Data Date

    2003/09/14 - 2003/09/21

  • Animation Type

    Regular