This visualization celebrates over a year of successful Aquarius observations. Sea surface salinity is shown on a flat map using a simple cartesian and extended Molleide projections. Versions are included with and without dates/color bars.
The range of time shown is December 2011 through Decemeber 2012. The data continuously loops through this range every 6 seconds. 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