May 4, 2021
Animation of the estimated ocean surface latent (top) and sensible (bottom) heat fluxes over the period of 1 August 2018 to 31 March 2021, produced using the CYGNSS Level 2 Ocean Surface Heat Flux Climate Data Record Version 1.1, which provides the time-tagged and geolocated ocean surface heat flux parameters with 25 x 25 kilometer resolution using wind speed data provided by the Delay Doppler Mapping Instrument (DDMI) aboard the CYGNSS satellite constellation. The dataset can be accessed from the PO.DAAC Portal at https://doi.org/10.5067/CYGNS-C2H11 (DOI: 10.5067/CYGNS-C2H11).
April 30, 2021
Animation depicting four gridded, daily time series from the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) Version 4 Release 4 data products (from top-left to bottom-right): Sea Surface Temperature (SST), Sea Surface Salinity (SSS), Sea Surface Height (SSH), and vertical velocity at 55 meters depth.
April 30, 2021
Southern Ocean Pre-SWOT Level-4 Hourly Oceanographic model simulation
Animation of the Pre-SWOT Level-4 Hourly Oceanographic model simulation dataset subsetted from a global ocean simulation using the MITgeneral circulation model (MITgcm) on a 1/48-degree nominal Lat/Lon-Cap horizontal grid (namely, LLC4320), covering the period of 13 September 2011 to 14 November 2012.
March 25, 2021
Animation of the Antarctic ice mass changes over the period April 2002 to August 2020 created from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow-On (FO) Monthly Surface Mass Anomalies missions data. The datasets can be accessed from the PO.DAAC Portal: GRACE and GRACE-FO. Original animation release came be found here. Credit: NASA and JPL/Caltech
March 25, 2021
Animation of the Greenland ice mass changes over the period April 2002 to August 2020 created from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow-On (FO) Monthly Surface Mass Anomalies missions data. The datasets can be accessed from the PO.DAAC Portal: GRACE and GRACE-FO. Original animation release came be found here. Credit: NASA and JPL/Caltech
March 16, 2021
Evolution of the NASA Multi-Scale Ultra-High Resolution (MUR) sea surface temperature (SST) response to the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. It is common to observe trails of cooler water, or cold wakes, along hurricane tracks as a result of wind-induced mixing and turbulence that brings cold waters at depth to the surface. The cold wakes associated with the 2020 Atlantic tropical cyclones are clearly observed as waters approximately 2°C cooler from normal that persisted for several days. (MUR SST DOI: 10.5067/GHGMR-4FJ04).
March 16, 2021
Evolution of GOES-East IR, NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) sea surface salinity (SSS), and NASA Multi-Scale Ultra-High Resolution (MUR) sea surface temperature (SST) response to the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season response. (MUR SST DOI: 10.5067/GHGMR-4FJ04; SMAP SSS DOI: 10.5067/SMP50-3TPCS).
March 16, 2021
Evolution of the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) sea surface salinity (SSS) response to the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. It is common to observe patches of 1) salinity freshening due to enhanced precipitation and 2) salinity increase due to wind stress-generated vertical mixing, wherein increased salinity from a mid-level maximum is brought to the surface. The two effects are clearly observed along the tracks of the 2020 Atlantic tropical cyclones. (SMAP SSS DOI: 10.5067/SMP50-3TPCS).
February 24, 2021
Animation of the Integrated Multi-Mission Ocean Altimeter Sea Surface Height (SSH) Level 2 version 5.0 dataset displays the SSH Anomaly derived from multi-mission altimeter data, including TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, OSTM/Jason-2, and Jason-3 missions covering the period of September 1992 to October 2020 (https://doi.org/10.5067/ALTTS-TJA50).
February 5, 2021
Animation of the retrieved ocean surface wind speed (meters per second) over the period of 1 August 2018 to 31 December 2020, produced using the CYGNSS Level 3 Climate Data Record (CDR) Version 1.1 dataset, which provides wind speed data retrieved from the Delay Doppler Mapping Instrument (DDMI) aboard the CYGNSS satellite constellation. The dataset can be accessed from the PO.DAAC Portal at https://doi.org/10.5067/CYGNS-L3C11 (DOI: 10.5067/CYGNS-L3C11). More information about the CYGNSS mission and other datasets can be found here: https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/cygnss.