Hurricane Isabel Model, Precipable Water

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Hurricane Isabel Model: Precipitable Water

The NASA finite-volume General Circulation Model (fvGCM) was used to predict the path of hurricane Isabel, starting from a known initial state. The predicted path is compared to the actual path taken by the hurricane.

A global view of the Eastern hemisphere, showing the total precipitable water predicted by the FVGCM model.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    No Satellite/ No Data

  • Animation ID

    3001

  • Video ID

    NONE

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    James W. Williams, Greg Shirah, Randall Jones

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2004/09/01

  • Scientist

    William Putman (NASA/GSFC)

  • Datasets

    fvGCM

  • Data Date

    2003/09/14 - 2003/09/21

  • Animation Type

    Regular