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Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Hurricane Fabian
Cold Water Trails from Hurricanes Fabian and Isabel (WMS)
The wide-angle lens of the Sea-viewing Wide-Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) instrument on the Orbview-2 satellite captured this picture of Fabian Sept. 4, 2003, near Bermuda.
This visualization shows the cold water trails left first by Hurricanes Fabian and then by Hurricane Isabel in the Atlantic Ocean from August 27, 2003 through September 23, 2003. The colors on the ocean represent the sea surface temperatures, and satellite images of the hurricane clouds are laid over the temperatures to clearly show the hurricane positions. Orange and red depict regions that are 82 degrees F and higher, where the ocean is warm enough for hurricanes to form. Hurricane winds are sustained by the heat energy of the ocean, so the ocean is cooled as the hurricane passes and the energy is extracted to power the winds. A hurricane can experience a dramatic reduction in wind speed when it crosses the cold track of a previous hurricane. However, in this case, the cold water track from Fabian warmed up before Isabel crossed it, so Isabel's winds did not decrease. The sea surface temperatures were measured by the AMSR-E instrument on the Aqua satellite, while the cloud images were taken by the Imager on the GOES-12 satellite.
Hurricanes Fabian and Isabel leave cold water trails in their wake.
Metadata
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Sensor
Aqua/AMSR-E, GOES/IR4, Terra/MODIS -
Animation ID
2897 -
Video ID
None -
Start Timecode
00:00:00:00 -
End Timecode
00:00:00:00 -
Animator
Eric Sokolowsky, Greg Shirah, Alex Kekesi, Jesse Allen, Marte Newcombe, Stuart A. Snodgrass, Kevin Mahoney -
Studio
SVS -
Visualization Date
2004/02/11 -
Scientist
J. Marshall Shepherd (NASA/GSFC) -
Datasets
Blue Marble -
Keywords
Hurricane -
DLESE Subject
Atmospheric science, Natural hazards -
Georeference Data
Geographic Projection: Latitude extents -25, 75. Longitude extents: -110, -10. -
Data Date
2003/08/27 - 2003/09/21 -
Story URL
http://www.ssmi.com/amsr/amsr_data_description.html -
Animation Type
Regular