Earth ID: 4543

Monitoring Hurricane Matthew

Visualizations by Alex Kekesi Released on January 23, 2017

Hurricane Matthew ravaged the Caribbean and United States from late September to early October 2016. Earth observing satellites provide insights into Matthew's rapid intensification and fast decline. This show was designed for the NASA Hyperwall to be shown at the 2017 American Meteorlogical Society (AMS) Conference. The show highlight's NASA's GPM Core System that works hand-in-hand with numerous other datasets, including model runs.

Color bar for frozen precipitation rates (ie, snow rates). Shades of cyan represent low amounts of frozen precipitation, whereas shades of purple represent high amounts of precipitation.

Color bar for liquid precipitation rates (ie, rain rates). Shades of green represent low amounts of liquid precipitation, whereas shades of red represent high amounts of precipitation.

Accumulated IMERG colorbar. Low amounts of accumulated rain are in shades of blue. The highest amounts of rainfall are in yellow and red.

Sea Level Pressure colorbar. The darkest colors represents very low pressure which coincides with the eye of Hurricane Matthew.

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Visualization Credits

Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Data Visualizer
Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC): Data Visualizer
Trent L. Schindler (USRA): Data Visualizer
Ryan Fitzgibbons (USRA): Lead Producer
George Huffman (NASA/GSFC): Lead Scientist
Gail Skofronick Jackson (NASA/GSFC): Lead Scientist
Dalia B Kirschbaum (NASA/GSFC): Lead Scientist
Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Technical Support
Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Technical Support

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NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio Data provided by the joint NASA/JAXA GPM mission. Data provided by the joint NASA/JAXA GPM mission.

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Mission:
Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM)

Data Used:

GOES/IR4

9/28/2016 - 10/9/2016

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GEOS-5 Atmospheric Model on the Cubed-Sphere also referred to as: GEOS-5 Cubed-Sphere

Model - NASA GMAO - 9/28/2016 - 10/9/2016

The model is the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 30-days. GEOS-5 is described here http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5/ and the cubed-sphere work is described here http://sivo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cubedsphere_overview.html.

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GPM/GMI/Surface Precipitation also referred to as: Rain Rates

9/28/2016 - 10/9/2016

Credit:
Data provided by the joint NASA/JAXA GPM mission.

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GPM/DPR/Ku also referred to as: Volumetric Precipitation data

Observed Data - JAXA - 9/28/2016 - 10/9/2016

Credit:
Data provided by the joint NASA/JAXA GPM mission.

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Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution (MUR) Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Analysis also referred to as: MUR SST

Analysis - JPL PO DAAC - 9/28/2016 - 10/9/2016

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also referred to as: IMERG

Data Compilation - NASA/GSFC - 9/28/2016 - 10/9/2016

http://pmm.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/document_files/IMERG_ATBD_V4.4.pdf

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Surface Soil Moisture corrected with SMOS imagery and assimilated by the Ensemble Kalman Filter also referred to as: NASA-USDA-FAS Soil Moisture

Data Compilation - NASA and USDA - 9/28/2016 - 10/9/2016

The surface soil moisture product is corrected by integrating satellite-derived Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission surface soil moisture retrievals into the modified Palmer two-layer soil moisture model. The SMOS imagery helps to correct the modified Pal

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