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Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
El Niño Zoom to Cross-section of Sea Temperature and Height: January 1997 through March 1998
Views of sea surface height (represented by the bumps) and sea temperature (represented by the color). Red is 30 degrees C, blue is 8 degrees C. The thermocline is the border between the dark blue at the bottom and the cyan. The thermocline exists at 20 degress C.
Metadata
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Sensor
TOPEX/Poseidon, TDRSS/TRITON Array -
Animation ID
280 -
Video ID
SVS1998-0013 -
Start Timecode
0:00:50:00 -
End Timecode
00:02:15:22 -
Animator
Greg Shirah -
Studio
SVS -
Visualization Date
1998/03/20 -
Scientist
Antonio Busalacchi (NASA/GSFC) -
Datasets
Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly, Sea Surface Height Anomaly, Sea Temperature Anomaly -
Keywords
El Niño -
DLESE Subject
Physical oceanography -
Data Date
1997/01/01-1998/03/31 -
Animation Type
Regular