NASA On Air: NASA's Data Shows A Windy World (3/10/2015)
LEAD: Where is the windiest region of the world?
1. NASA’s assimilation of wind measurements from ship buoys and satellites show a global view of winds, especially over the oceans.
2. There are strong winds over the Atlantic.
3. Take a closer look at the Roaring Forties in the Southern Hemisphere. This is a region that circles the globe with wide-open oceans. Here winds easily howl at 30 meters per second, or 65 miles per hour.
TAG: One hundred and fifty years ago 'clipper' sailing ship captains used these windy zones as long distance 'express lanes’.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producer
- Howard Joe Witte (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Data visualizers
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientists
- Michelle M. Gierach (NASA/JPL CalTech)
- Robert Atlas (NOAA AOML)
- Toshio Chen (NASA/JPL CalTech)
- David Moroni (NASA/JPL CalTech)
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Video editor
- Joy Ng (USRA)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, March 10, 2015.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:49 PM EDT.
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