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Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
New Data from Aura's Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) Water Vapor
The Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) measures the chemistry of the lower stratosphere and upper troposphere. Measuring concentration of water vapor and other chemicals. Approximately 50 percent of the atmosphere's moisture lies within about 1.84 km of the earth's surface, and only a minute fraction of the total occurs above the tropopause.
This animation shows varied concentrations of H2O near the Antarctic pole. Water vapor, clouds, and carbon dioxide are the main atmospheric components in the exchange of terrestrial radiation in the troposphere, serving as a regulator of planetary temperatures via greenhouse effect.
Metadata
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Sensor
UARS/MLS -
Animation ID
3057 -
Video ID
NONE -
Start Timecode
00:00:00:00 -
End Timecode
00:00:00:00 -
Animator
Stuart A. Snodgrass, Lori Perkins -
Studio
SVS -
Visualization Date
2004/12/14 -
Scientist
Mark Schoeberl (NASA/GSFC) -
Datasets
Water Vapor -
Keywords
H2O -
Data Date
2004/08/13-17, 20-23, 25-31, 2004/09/02-06, 10, 12, 17-22, 24-29, 2004/10/01, 03-07, 09-12, 14 -
Pao ID
G04-064 -
Story URL
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/aura_first.html -
Animation Type
Regular