Great Lakes and Lake Effect Snow

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, The SeaWiFS Project and ORBIMAGE, Scientific Visualization Studio. NOTE: All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with ORBIMAGE (http://www.orbimage.com).

Great Lakes and Lake Effect Snow

Great Lakes and Lake Effect Snow. This animation is a dissolve between 2 different SeaWiFS images taken in 1999. One image is taken in the spring,April, and the second image is taken in the winter, December. The December 1999 image shows a traditional lake effect snow storm. This animation shows the difference between the seasons in the Great Lakes region.

Great Lakes Lake Effect Snow in December 1999

Metadata

  • Sensor

    OrbView-2/SeaWiFS

  • Animation ID

    1271

  • Video ID

    SVS1999-1011

  • Start Timecode

    2:01:42:00

  • End Timecode

    2:02:14:00

  • Animator

    Lori Perkins

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    1999/12/03

  • Scientist

    Gene Feldman (NASA/GSFC)

  • Keywords

    GCMD--Location--Great Lakes

  • DLESE Subject

    Physical geography, Cryology

  • Data Date

    1999/4/1 1999/12/1

  • Animation Type

    Regular