Water Vapor Near Southern California v2

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Aqua/AIRS Water Vapor near southern California #2

This visualization shows 3D volumetric water vapor data from the Aqua/Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument. As the camera moved down and around the data set, the low data values are faded out revealing only the highest concentrations of water vapor data. This version (#2) ends with a slightly lower threshold than the original version - showing more of the highest water vapor concentrations. The color and opacity at each 3D voxel are driven by the water vapor data. The data set was obtained by Aqua on January 1, 2003. Only data from the sea level to about 10km are shown. This visualization was created to support a JPL press release about how assimilated AIRS data is improving global atmospheric simulation model forecasts by about 6 hours (from about 5 days to about 5 days and 6 hours).

Aqua/AIRS water vapor data (wide view)

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/AIRS

  • Animation ID

    3129

  • Video ID

    NONE

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    Greg Shirah

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2005/02/09

  • Scientist

    Tom Pagano (NASA/JPL), Edward Olsen (NASA/JPL), Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen (NASA/JPL), Sharon Okonek (NASA/JPL)

  • Datasets

    Aqua/AIRS Level 2 Water Vapor (H2OMMRStd)

  • Keywords

    water vapor, volume

  • Data Date

    2003/01/01

  • Animation Type

    Regular