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- El Niño Visualizations -
NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
These animations and images show a combined perspective of the El Niño induced change in the sea surface topography as viewed from space by the NASA TOPEX radar altimetry satellite and sea surface temperature observed by NOAA's AVHRR sensor for the period from January 1997 to December 1997 . The three dimensional relief map shows a sea level rise along the Equator in the eastern Pacific Ocean of up to 34 centimeters with the red colors indicating an associated change in sea surface temperature of up to 5.4 degrees Celsius. Also shown is a combined perspective of the the weakening of the Trade Winds across the Pacific Ocean and the associated increase in sea surface temperature. The convergence of the surface wind field into the anomalous warm water regions indicates a continued strengthening of this El Niño event.
- NASA / NSIPP Group - The Current View From Space
- This Page From NASA Provides Direct Links To:
- Topex-Derived Sea Surface Height
- Most Recent TOPEX Image - 59 Kb
- Animated Loop of Latest TOPEX Data - 210 Kb
- GOES Water Vapor
- Most Recent Water Vapor Composite - 30 Kb
- Animated Loop of Water Vapor - 2.9 Mb
- Surface Winds
- Most Recent Surface Winds Image - 128 Kb Ê
- Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
- Most Recent SST Anomalies - 118 Kb
- Animated Loop of Latest SST Anomalies - 4 Mb
- TRMM Data
- Simulated 1-day - 33 Kb
- Simulated 2-day - 33 Kb
- Most Recent TOPEX Image - 59 Kb
- NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center - Animations of the Current El Niño Event
* This page updated each Tuesday morning before noon (MST) *
- Quicktime Movie showing the progression from a La Nina last November to the current El Niño conditions
- John Monteverdi, Prof. of Met., Chairman, Dept. of Geosciences, SF State University and
- Jan Null, Adjunct Prof. of Met., Lead Forecaster, N. W. S., SF Bay Area
- Simulation (QuickTime) of an El Niño Phenomena represented with ocean temperature change
- U.S.Dept of Commerce / NOAA / OAR / ERL / PMEL / TAO
- JAVA Animation of TAO SST and Winds
- U.S.Dept of Commerce / NOAA / OAR / ERL / PMEL / TAO
- MPEG animation (910k) of sea level anomalies observed by TOPEX/POSEIDON in the tropical Pacific
- TOPEX/POSEIDON
- Animations of Oceanographic Data on SGI Workstations
- LDEO Climate Group Exhibit Hall
- SST anomaly field from the El Niño event of 1982-83 (August 1982 to June 1983)
- Department of Atmospheric Sciences (DAS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- How TOPEX/Poseidon Tracked the 1994 - 95 El Niño Event and Check out this animated sequence (MPEG, 890K) of sea surface variability during this El Niño episode.
- http://ess.geology.ufl.edu/usra_esse/el_nino.html
- Animation of sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly conditions during the current El Niño
- NOAA's Climate Diagnostics Center
- This Page From NASA Provides Direct Links To:
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