Aerosols and Warming Change v2

Images & Animations

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Aerosols and Warming Change with Time - Version 2

As the aerosol content and solar heating change with time, the atmosphere and the Earth's surface experience different warming and cooling. This animation displays a time series of the INDOEX region with 8-day averages showing aerosol and solar reflectance (albedo) data from the Terra satellite. From these, we see 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.

Color bars for all datasets

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/CERES, Terra/MODIS

  • Animation ID

    2231

  • Video ID

    SVS2001-1001

  • Start Timecode

    01:41:55:00

  • End Timecode

    01:42:57:15

  • 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