Imagine watching all of the tropical depressions, storms and hurricanes of 2008 as they produced in the Atlantic Ocean Basin and either faded at sea or made landfall. NASA technology and satellite data coupled with data from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operated satellite, you can see the tracks of storms from Arthur to Paloma from its birth to death.
In the Atlantic Hurricane Season, there were 17 tropical cyclones which include the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Sixteen storms were strong enough to be named, and only one stayed a tropical depression.
The movie displays the infrared cloud imagery from the geosynchronous weather satellites, mainly NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-12. The original cloud imagery was remapped and improved to display cloud top texture. The GOES cloud images were overlaid on a true-color background map before created from the Moderate Imaging Spectro radiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite.
The movie, which can be found on NASA's Hurricane Web page, or on the NASA GOES web page, is television production-value. "These are big, high-resolution, colorful animations, made for use or editing by professional documentary producers or for any person interested in hurricanes," said by Dr. Dennis Chesters, GOES Project Scientist at the Laboratory for Atmospheres at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
The movie depicts the complete 2008 hurricane season based on six months of GOES imagery at 30 minute intervals from May 1 to November 18, 2008. Each "frame" has a date and time stamp with the times in Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) and there are 2 versions of the movie available: a 720p and 1080p HD-TV digital animation. There's also a "highlights" movie that features the middle of the hurricane season from 2nd July to 14th September.
The NASA GOES Project office plans to create a movie of the 2009 season.
In the Atlantic Hurricane Season, there were 17 tropical cyclones which include the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Sixteen storms were strong enough to be named, and only one stayed a tropical depression.
The movie displays the infrared cloud imagery from the geosynchronous weather satellites, mainly NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-12. The original cloud imagery was remapped and improved to display cloud top texture. The GOES cloud images were overlaid on a true-color background map before created from the Moderate Imaging Spectro radiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite.
The movie, which can be found on NASA's Hurricane Web page, or on the NASA GOES web page, is television production-value. "These are big, high-resolution, colorful animations, made for use or editing by professional documentary producers or for any person interested in hurricanes," said by Dr. Dennis Chesters, GOES Project Scientist at the Laboratory for Atmospheres at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
The movie depicts the complete 2008 hurricane season based on six months of GOES imagery at 30 minute intervals from May 1 to November 18, 2008. Each "frame" has a date and time stamp with the times in Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) and there are 2 versions of the movie available: a 720p and 1080p HD-TV digital animation. There's also a "highlights" movie that features the middle of the hurricane season from 2nd July to 14th September.
The NASA GOES Project office plans to create a movie of the 2009 season.
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