Skip all navigation and jump to content Jump to site navigation Jump to section navigation.
NASA Logo - Goddard Space Flight Center + Visit NASA.gov
HOME PROJECTS RESOURCES SEARCH MAP

+ Advanced Search
Home
Home
View Most Recently Released Imagery
View Gallery of Imagery: A topical collection of SVS Imagery
Search Imagery by the keywords assigned to it
Search Imagery by the instruments that supplied data for a visualization product
Search Imagery by the series of visualizations that have been produced
Search Imagery by the scientist providing the data used in a visualization product
Search Imagery by the animator that created the product
Search Imagery by the identification number assigned to the visualization product
See other search options
Learn about the SVS Image Server
  + About the Server
  + Animation List
  + How to Use the Server


  + RSS Feeds
blank image
Previous Animation
Next Animation
Recipe of a Hurricane - Spin Around Clouds and Isosurfaces

This visualization was created in support of the 'Recipe for a Hurricane' live shot campaign. This is a visualization of hurricane Erin on September 10, 2001. This version of the visualization is a slow spin around the GOES and TRMM/VIRS based cloud tops (extruded), the TRMM/PR based rain isosurface, and the CAMEX-4/dropsonde-based heat isosurface.

Animation of isosurfaces showing the structure of Erin on September 10, 2001.    Animation of isosurfaces showing the structure of Erin on September 10, 2001.
Duration: 30.0 seconds
Available formats:
  720x486 (29.97 fps) Frames
  640x480 (30 fps) MPEG-1   5 MB
  720x480 (29.97 fps) MPEG-2   22 MB
  320x240 (30 fps) MPEG-1   1 MB
  320x240     JPEG         9 KB
  80x40         PNG           5 KB
  720x480 (29.97 fps) DV             102 MB
  160x80       PNG           18 KB
How to play our movies


Slate image from video tape reads, 'Spin Around Clouds and Isosurfaces.'    Slate image from video tape reads, 'Spin Around Clouds and Isosurfaces.'

Available formats:
  720 x 528         JPEG 102 KB
  320 x 234         PNG 331 KB

Animation Number:2821
Animators:Greg Shirah (SVS) (Lead)
 Alex Kekesi (SVS)
 Lori Perkins (SVS)
 Tom Bridgman (SVS)
 Marte Newcombe (SVS)
Completed:2003-09-26
Scientist:Jeff Halverson (JCET UMBC)
Instruments:GOES/IR4
 TRMM/PR
 TRMM/VIRS
 Terra/MODIS
Data set:Blue Marble
Data Collected:2001/09/10
Series:Hurricane Live shots
Video:SVS2003-0020 *
Goddard TV Tape:G2003-051
Keywords:
SVS >> Hurricane
 
 
Please give credit for this item to
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio, and Hal Pierce (SSAI), who developed the original treatment.


*Please note: the SVS does not fulfill requests for copies of the tapes in our library. On some of our animation pages, there is a direct link to a video distribution service from which tapes, handled by the Public Affairs Office (PAO)/Goddard TV, including some of our animations may be ordered. General information on this service can be found here.


Back to Top

USA.gov logo - the U.S. Government's official Web portal. + Privacy Policy and Important Notices
+ Reproduction Guidelines
NASA NASA Official:
SVS Contact:
Curator: