COLLECTION NAME:
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio Collection
Record
Title:
SeaWiFS Captures El Nino
Instrument:
SeaStar/SeaWiFS
Description:
Looking down to see the El Nino and La Nina of 1998 to 1999 and how it reacted with the rest of the world.
Abstract:
By monitoring the color of reflected light via satellite, scientists can determine how successfully plant life is photosynthesizing. A measurement of photosynthesis is essentially a measurement of successful growth, and growth means successful use of ambient carbon. Until now, scientists have only had a continuous record of photosynthesis on land. But following three years of continual data collected by the SeaWiFS instrument, NASA has gathered the first record of photosynthetic productivity in the oceans. By taking three years of continuous data as a whole, experts have been able to map trends and anomalies in the global circulation of carbon to a degree of detail than has never been done before. It is a baseline measurement to by which all future measurements will be compared.
Completed:
2001-03-09
Credit:
*Please give credit for this visualization to* NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, The SeaWiFS Project and GeoEye, Scientific Visualization Studio. NOTE: All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye (http://www.geoeye.com).
Studio:
SVS
Animator:
Marte Newcombe
Scientist:
Gene Feldman (NASA/GSFC)
Series:
SeaWiFS Biosphere
Data Collected:
1997/09/20 - 2000/09/20
Keywords:
Biological oceanography
Video:
SVS2001-0008* * *
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_when:
1998
facet_what:
El Nino
facet_when_year:
1998
Animation Number:
2080
UID:
SPD-SCIVS-http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002000/a002080/elnino_flat-IMAGE
