Aqua/AIRS Water Vapor near Southern California #2

  • Released Thursday, March 10, 2005
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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).

Fly over of Aqua/AIRS volumetric water vapor data

Aqua-AIRS water vapor data (tight view, lower values faded out)

Aqua-AIRS water vapor data (tight view, lower values faded out)

Aqua-AIRS water vapor data (wide view)

Aqua-AIRS water vapor data (wide view)

Aqua-AIRS water vapor data (highest water vapor concentrations)

Aqua-AIRS water vapor data (highest water vapor concentrations)

Aqua-AIRS water vapor: 0=blue, 10=red

Aqua-AIRS water vapor: 0=blue, 10=red

Credits

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Thursday, March 10, 2005.
This page was last updated on Monday, June 24, 2024 at 3:37 PM EDT.

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