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Image of the Week Archive — January 2005
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Improvements to Climate Model Result in Better Precipitation Forecasts for the United States for the wet Spring of 2003
January 30, 2005 —
NASA's finite-volume General Circulation Model (fvGCM) at 0.625 X 0.5 deg. lat. X long. resolution is used for experimental 10-day forecasts. Components added to a new version of fvGCM, a cloud scheme called McRAS ([continued]
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Does Titan Have an Ocean?
January 23, 2005 —
Saturn's moon Titan was discovered in 1655, by Christian Huygens. Shown are two recent views of a Titan "shoreline", taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe that was transported to Titan by the Cassini spacecraft, that launched in fall 1997. . . . [continued]
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Aerosol Haze Heading East from Sub-Saharan Africa
January 16, 2005 —
This week's image shows smoke and dust optical thickness as measured from space by the Terra/MODIS instrument on January 9, 2005. Prevailing winds during the dry season over west central Africa carry Saharan dust and sub-Saharan smoke toward the Atlantic . . . [continued]
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Global Cloud Fraction and Water Path - Monthly Averages from MODIS
January 9, 2005 —
In addition to being intimately related to the daily weather systems we experience, clouds are recognized as critical components of the EarthÕs climate system. Two of the more basic questions related to the global distribution of clouds are (1) how often . . . [continued]
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Possible Smoke Effects on Climate
January 2, 2005 —
These pair of images of wildfires burning in Quebec in July 2002 demonstrate the possible effects that aerosols such as smoke particles may have on climate. The left image is a true color image composed of reflectances in the visible range of the solar s . . . [continued]
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