Atmospheric and Terrestrial Data Sets

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Fusion of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Data Sets

In this sequence, cloud cover data is mapped onto a layer above an Earth surface defined by topographic and batymetric data and colored by biospheric data.

A rotating biosphere with superimposed cloud cover

Metadata

  • Sensor

  • Animation ID

    64

  • Video ID

    SVS1992-0001

  • Start Timecode

    0:04:17:00

  • End Timecode

    0:05:59:10

  • Animator

    Dave Pape

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    1994/03/13

  • Scientist

    William Rossow (NASA/GSFC GISS), Alison Walker (NASA/GSFC GISS), Gene Feldman (NASA/GSFC), Compton Tucker (NASA/GSFC)

  • Datasets

    ISCCP Global Cloud Cover, USGS/DEM, NOAA/ETOPO5

  • Keywords

    Clouds, Biosphere

  • DLESE Subject

    Physical geography, Physical oceanography, Biological oceanography, Atmospheric science

  • Data Date

    1978/10/01-1981/06/30, 1983/10/01-1983/10/31

  • Animation Type

    Regular