Modelling Weather: Wind, Clouds, and T2M.

Sample animation composite using most of the below layers, depicting 500 mB. winds, clouds, and air temperatures 2 meters above sea level.

2 meter temperature above sea level colorbar. Temperature units in Celsius.

Alternate sample composite animation showing 500 mB. winds with clouds over a more natural looking ocean.

Rim layer used for post-production compositing.

Layer used to create the atmospheric haze effect.

Cloud layer.

Wind layer. (500 millibar winds)

Sea Ice layer. Since the model run is in June, the sea ice is mostly concentrated closer to the North Pole and is only really seen at the beginning of the animation where more of the North Pole is in view.

Layer used to create a more realistic ocean surface.

Proxy Sea Surface Temperature (SST) layer. Colors ranging from blue to orange depict air temperatures 2 meters (T2M) above sea level. Since SSTs are typically measured at sea level and below, the T2M model output behaves somewhat differently. Nonetheless, it is a reasonable proxy for SST.

Land and ocean bathymetry layer.

Background starfield layer.

Hyperwall frames for the sample animation composite depicting winds, clouds, and temperature 2 meters above sea level. The names of the screens that comprise the hyperwall follow the spreadsheet convention in which rows are assigned numbers, beginning with 1 at the top, and columns are assigned letters, beginning with A at the left. The display in the upper left is A1. The display in the bottom right is E3 (for a 5 x 3 display).

Hyperwall frames for the alternate composite animation showing winds and clouds over a more natural looking ocean.