Temperature

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Temperature from new Microwave Limb Sounder on Aura (WMS)

Atmospheric temperature as measured by the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) instrument on NASA's Aura satellite. MLS can simultaneously measure several trace gases and ozone-destroying chemicals in the upper troposphere and photosphere. In this series of animiations we present chlorine monoxide (ClO), hydrogen chloride (HCl), nitric acid (HNO3), ozone (O3), water vapor (H2O) and temperature measurements. These are "first light" data taken when the MLS was operated for the first time.

This animation shows temperature in the atmosphere from August 13 through October 15, 2004. Red represents higher temperatures; blue represents lower temperatures. The spatial resolution is low: each pixel covers an area of 5 degrees longitude by 2 degrees latitude, so the entire world (except for 1 degree at each pole) is covered by the 72x89 pixel images.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    UARS/MLS

  • Animation ID

    3102

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    Lori Perkins, Jeff DeLaBeaujardiere

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2005/01/24

  • Scientist

    Mark Schoeberl (NASA/GSFC)

  • Datasets

    Temperature

  • Keywords

    GCMD--EARTH SCIENCE--Atmosphere--Atmospheric Temperature--Air Temperature, GCMD--Platform--EOS AURA--Earth Observing System - Aura, GCMD--Instrument--MLS--Microwave Limb Sounder, GCMD--Location--Global

  • DLESE Subject

    Atmospheric science

  • Imagemods

    Duplicate data column removed from right edge of data. Data shifted in longitude from [0,360] to [-180,180]. MPEG movie scaled to a multiple of 8x8 pixels.

  • Story URL

    http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/aura_first.html

  • Animation Type

    Regular