Clouds over Africa

  • Released Saturday, October 1, 2011
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This animation is a beauty shot of cloud model output over North America. The clouds are derived from the Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5 (GEOS-5). GEOS-5 is a system of models integrated using the Earth System Modeling Framework and used to help refine atmospheric weather models.

The lighting of this scene is completely artistic and not scientifically accurate. If accurate lighting were used the diurnal effect would pulse across the globe approximately every 90 frames (3 seconds when played at 30 fps). The slow strobing would have been undesireable for the intended purpose of this animation, which is to highlight the cloud model output.

Animation of simulated clouds over Africa.

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Print resolution image of simulated clouds over Africa.

Print resolution image of simulated clouds over the Sahara Desert.

Print resolution image of simulated clouds over the Sahara Desert.

Print resolution image of simulated clouds over South Africa.

Print resolution image of simulated clouds over South Africa.

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Saturday, October 1, 2011.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:53 PM EDT.

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