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.
Movie showing how aerosol content and albedo can change temperature forcing.
Data for January 8, 2001
Data for January 16, 2001
Data for January 24, 2001
Data for February 1, 2001
Data for February 9, 2001
Data for February 17, 2001
Data for February 25, 2001
Data for March 5, 2001
Data for March 13, 2001
Data for March 21, 2001
Color bars for all datasets
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientists
- Veerabhadran Ramanathan (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
- Anand K. Inamdar (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, August 13, 2001.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.
Missions
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[Terra: CERES]
ID: 114The CERES instrument aboard many Earth-orbiting satellites records the flow of reflected Solar radiation and reprocessed longwave radiation in the Earth's radiation budget.
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[Terra: MODIS]
ID: 116
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