Continuous View of Clouds

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

ICESat First Light Release: A Continuous View of Clouds

The GLAS laser system on ICESat is making unique measurements of the heights of clouds and their global distribution. In addition, ICESat can 'see' the distributions of aerosols from sources such as dust storms and forest fires. This animation shows the distribution of cloud layers as seens from the bird's-eye perspective of the ICESat spacecraft.

Animation showing ICESat collecting cloud data.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    ICESat/GLAS, Terra/MODIS

  • Animation ID

    2744

  • Video ID

    SVS2003-0015

  • Start Timecode

    01:09:00:00

  • End Timecode

    01:11:33:09

  • Animator

    Greg Shirah, Alex Kekesi

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2003/05/15

  • Scientist

    Chris Shuman (NASA/GSFC), Jay Zwally (NASA/GSFC)

  • Datasets

    ICESat/GLAS Cloud Height Profile

  • Keywords

    Clouds, Technology

  • DLESE Subject

    Atmospheric science, Technology

  • Data Date

    GLAS: 2003/03/02

  • Copyright Info

    Canadian Space Agency, RADARSAT International Inc.

  • Animation Type

    Regular