Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Transatlantic Dust from North Africa (WMS)
Desert storms in northern Africa raise dust that is carried in the upper atmosphere across the Atlantic Ocean. The dust, which may carry potentially hazardous bacteria and fungi, can land as far west as the Carribean and the Americas.
This animation shows aerosol index over northern Africa and the Atlantic Ocean from July 1 through July 31, 2000. Each image pixel corresponds to an area 1 degree in longitude by 1.25 degrees in latitude.
Metadata
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Sensor
TOMS/TOMS -
Animation ID
3133 -
Start Timecode
00:00:00:00 -
End Timecode
00:00:00:00 -
Animator
Jeff DeLaBeaujardiere -
Studio
SVS -
Visualization Date
2005/03/14 -
Scientist
Jay Herman (NASA/GSFC) -
Datasets
Aerosols -
Keywords
GCMD--EARTH SCIENCE--Atmosphere--Aerosols--Aerosol Radiance, GCMD--Instrument--TOMS--Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer, GCMD--Platform--EP-TOMS--Earth Probe-TOMS -
DLESE Subject
Atmospheric science -
Imagemods
Gaps with missing data were interpolated. Each frame was smoothed spatially, and the eastern (before midnight) edge of each frame was smoothed with the western (after midnight) edge of the following day's frame. The area of interest was extracted, expanded and smoothed. Low aerosol values (index less than 1) were made transparent. -
Animation Type
Regular
