Cloud Optical Thickness Effective Particle Radius

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Cloud Optical Thickness Effective Particle Radius

MODIS provides new capabilities for measuring the properties of clouds. The sensor measures how much of the globe is covered by clouds, identifies various cloud types, and even enables scientists to determine the sizes of the particles that make up clouds. This latter measurement allows scientists to distinguish clouds made of water droplets from those made of ice crystals, and from those made of snow flakes. In this image, the blue clouds are ice clouds, pink indicates snow clouds, and green shows water clouds.

MODIS provides new capabilities for measuring the properties of clouds.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Animation ID

    1128

  • Video ID

    SVS2000-1001

  • Start Timecode

    1:18:09:00

  • End Timecode

    1:18:59:00

  • Animator

    Stuart A. Snodgrass

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2000/04/19

  • Scientist

    Yoram Kaufman (NASA/GSFC)

  • Keywords

    GCMD--Location--North America

  • DLESE Subject

    Atmospheric science

  • Data Date

    2000/03

  • Animation Type

    Regular