Movie Catalog

A fast-loading text-only catalog, with preview images as links instead of in line, is also available.

Notes

QuickTime for Mac and Windows machines is available from Apple.

For Unix machines, we recommend viewing the MPEG movies since most of our Quicktime movies use the cinepak codec, which is not well supported on Unix. If you want to try Quicktime, Xanim is an X-Windows animation viewer which includes support for cinepak QuickTime movies on some platforms.

Hurricane Dennis timeseries (1999 August-September)
QuickTime movies, 1.5-1.9MB each

<-- 1999 August 28, morning
<-- 1999 August 28, evening

<-- 1999 August 29, morning
<-- 1999 September 1, morning

Hurricane Mitch timeseries (1998 October)

Mitch approaching Honduras.

Hurricane Georges timeseries (1998 September)

Georges churning towards Florida

Georges in the Gulf of Mexico.

[Guillermo] Morphed movie of Hurricane Guillermo

The following animations of GOES-9 data show explosive convection in Hurricane Guillermo. The images were taken 1997 August 2 and show the hurricane in the eastern Pacific. NOAA research aircraft were in the eye at about the same time.

The interval between images is as short as 1 minute. Unfortunately, in its operational mode the GOES-9 satellite has gaps of up to 30 min between images while it scans other parts of the earth.

To bridge these gaps, Mark Sutton has morphed successive frames. Morphing is a subjective process rather than a scientific interpolation, but it does provide an more continuous view of the hurricane. Marit Jentoft-Nilsen converted the morphed sequence to QuickTime, and also created a raw sequence (no morphing) and a side-by-side comparison of the two.

Note: the MPEG versions are quicker to download but much less sharp.

[Fran fly-by] Hurricane Fran Fly-By (1996 Sep 4)