Visualizing El Nino

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Visualizing El Niño

A narrated tape on the 1997 El Niño, showing the effects of El Niño through animations.

Sea surface height and temperature anomalies in the Pacific Ocean in August, 1997, as measured by NOAA AVHRR and Topex Poseidon

Metadata

  • Sensor

    TOPEX/Poseidon, TDRSS/TRITON Array

  • Animation ID

    287

  • Video ID

    SVS1998-0014

  • Start Timecode

    0:04:08:13

  • End Timecode

    0:30:00:00

  • Animator

    Greg Shirah, William Wynn

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Writer

    Jarrett Cohen

  • Narrator

    Erica Drezek

  • Visualization Date

    1998/04/01

  • Scientist

    Antonio Busalacchi (NASA/GSFC), Eric Hackert (NASA/GSFC)

  • Datasets

    Sea Surface Height Anomaly, Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly, Sea Surface Wind Anomaly, Sea Temperature Anomaly

  • Keywords

    El Niño

  • DLESE Subject

    Physical oceanography

  • Data Date

    1997/01/01-1998/02/28

  • Animation Type

    Production