El Niño - Atmospheric River in January 2016
The atmospheric river in Jan 2016.
Atmospheric river is one of good indicators of El Niño. This animation shows the activities of atmospheric river in January 2016, mainly through three datasets - precipitation, water vapor, and cloud. Precipitation is showed in green-to-red for liquid precipitation and blue-to-purple for frozen precipitation (please see the color bars below), which is from IMERG. Water vapor (from MERRA 2) is illustrated in light blue color. Cloud (from GOES 15) is pictured in white.
The atmospheric river in Jan 2016 (4k version).
A still image on Jan 5th.
A still image on Jan 20th.
The color table for liquid precipitation.
The color table for frozen precipitation.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
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Visualizers
- Cheng Zhang (USRA)
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Producer
- Kayvon Sharghi (USRA)
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Technical support
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, April 18, 2016.
This page was last updated on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 12:07 AM EST.
Datasets used in this visualization
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IMERG
ID: 863This dataset can be found at: http://pmm.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/document_files/IMERG_ATBD_V4.4.pdf
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GOES-West [GOES-15/P: Imager]
ID: 907
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