Flat Earth Tide Height Model

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

TOPEX/Poseidon Flat Earth Tide Height Model

Data from TOPEX/Poseidon was used to produce a computer model of 16 days of tide height. Blue is below sea level, red is above sea level.

TOPEX/Poseidon Tide Height Model Full Earth

Metadata

  • Sensor

    TOPEX/Poseidon

  • Animation ID

    1332

  • Video ID

    SVS2000-0028

  • Start Timecode

    01:00:35:00

  • End Timecode

    01:02:37:23

  • Animator

    James W. Williams

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2000/06/20

  • Scientist

    Richard Ray (NASA/GSFC)

  • Datasets

    TOPEX/Poseidon

  • Keywords

    tide, energy

  • Story URL

    stories/topex/index.html

  • Animation Type

    Regular

  • Airchecks

    Scientific American Magazine August 2000 pp. 29