Impact of Aerosols on Atmospheric Warming v1

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

The Impact of Aerosols on Atmospheric Warming - Version 1

Bright and dark aerosols, combined with solar heating, create different effects in heating the atmosphere and heating the surface of the Earth. This animation zooms into the INDOEX region showing aerosol and solar reflectance (albedo) data from the Terra satellite, then displays how these inputs generate warming of the atmosphere (Atmospheric Forcing - red regions) and cooling of the surface (Surface Forcing - dark regions). Areas of missing data (due to clouds, etc.) are either black or transparent.

And the higher albedo cools the surface.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/CERES, Terra/MODIS

  • Animation ID

    2214

  • Video ID

    SVS2001-1001

  • Start Timecode

    01:38:45:00

  • End Timecode

    01:39:22:23

  • Animator

    Tom Bridgman

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2001/08/10

  • Scientist

    Veerabhadran Ramanathan (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Anand K. Inamdar (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

  • Datasets

    CERES, MODIS

  • Keywords

    Aerosols

  • DLESE Subject

    Atmospheric science

  • Data Date

    2001/01/01-2001/03/21

  • Animation Type

    Regular