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NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 2 weeks ago
NOAA Model Shows Wildfire Smoke Spread Across the U.S.
When volcanoes erupt, toxic plumes are released, or wildfires burn, NOAA's HYSPLIT model is used to answer some fundamental questions: where will it go and how concentrated will it be? The HYSPLIT ... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 2 weeks ago
10 Years of Weather History in 3 Minutes
NOAA's GOES-12 satellite was decommissioned on August 16th, 2013 after 3,788 days in service. From April 2003 -- May 2010, GOES-12 served as GOES East, providing "eye in the sky" monitoring for suc... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 3 weeks ago
Hurricane Katrina (2005) Colorized IR
On August 16, 2013, NOAA officially decommissioned the GOES-12 satellite. As the official weather satellite monitoring the eastern U.S. and Atlantic Ocean from 2003-2010, it tracked hundreds of sev... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 month ago
Saharan Dust Cloud Travels Across Atlantic
NOAA's satellites have detected a plume of dust moving off the coast of Africa. Though quite common, this particular plume, also called the Saharan Air Layer, has a relatively constrained area of h... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 2 months ago
Green: Vegetation on Our Planet (Spinning Earth)
Vegetation changes are seen to subtlety change over one year in this video using vegetation index data from the NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite. More information at www.nnvl.noaa.gov/green.php -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 2 months ago
Green: Vegetation on Our Planet (Flat Earth)
Vegetation changes are seen to subtlety change over one year in this video using vegetation index data from the NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite. More information at www.nnvl.noaa.gov/green.php -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 2 months ago
Measuring Vegetation from Space
Dr. Felix Kogan, a physical scientist at the NOAA Satellite and Information Service, discusses how vegetation data from the Suomi NPP satellite is advancing the ability to detect and monitor greenn...- CC
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NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 2 months ago
Green: Vegetation on Our Planet (Tour of Earth)
Although 75% of the planet is a relatively unchanging ocean of blue, the remaining 25% of Earth's surface is a dynamic green. Data from the NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite is able to detect these sub...- CC
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NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 2 months ago
June 13, 2013 Storms on the East Coast
For the past week, forecast models showed unstable conditions that could lead to significant severe weather events. NOAA put the GOES-14 satellite in Super Rapid Scan Operations mode on June 12 and... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 3 months ago
Shirley Murillo - On Using Radars Mounted to Hurricane Hunter Aircraft
Shirley Murillo, a meteorologist with the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, discusses how the tail-mounted radars on the NOAA P-3 hurricane hunter aircraft provide a unique...- CC
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NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 3 months ago
High Speed Imagery of the Oklahoma Tornadoes
On May 20, 2013 as conditions were ripening for severe weather outbreaks in the U.S. Plains, the NOAA Satellite and Information Service placed the GOES-13 satellite into rapid scan operations - mea... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 4 months ago
Bob Kuligowski - On Using Satellite Data to Monitor Flash Floods
Bob Kuligowski, a meteorologist with the NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research, discusses how the satellites are used to monitor for potential flash flood conditions. The infrared sen...- CC
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NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 5 months ago
Arctic Ice Breaks Up in Beaufort Sea
A series of intense storms in the Arctic has caused fracturing of the sea ice around the Beaufort Sea along the northern coasts of Alaska and Canada. High-resolution imagery from the Suomi NPP sate... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 5 months ago
20th Anniversary of the "Storm of the Century" March 1993
What started out as an area of low pressure off the coast of Texas on March 12, 1993 quickly developed into what many people refer to as "The Storm of the Century." The evolution of this winter sup... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 6 months ago
Early March Storm Affects Large Swath of the U.S.
A winter storm that brought 24 inches of snow to Rocky Boy, MT, 11 inches to La Grange Point, IL, and 9 inches to Bellefontaine, OH, impacts the mid-Atlantic on Wednesday, March 6 before delivering... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 6 months ago
February 8-10, 2013, Snowstorm from the GOES Satellite
This movie shows the imagery over New England during the historic snow event spanning February 8-10, 2013. The snowstorm in New England brought historic snowfall to many communities in New England ... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 7 months ago
A Shroud of Cold Air Descends on the U.S.
A drop in the jet stream sent temperatures across the United States plummeting over the Martin Luther King Jr Holiday weekend. The pronounced change in temperatures can be seen in this weather data... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 9 months ago
A River of Atmospheric Moisture Moves Across the Pacific
Plumes of moisture stream across the entire Pacific basin and head toward the U.S. coastline. Over the first week of December 2012, over a foot of rain is expected to fall in parts of Northern Cali... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 9 months ago
The 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season in 4.5 Minutes
After 19 named storms (10 hurricanes), the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season has come to a close. This season was a relatively active one -- with 7 more storms than the historical average. Though the ... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 10 months ago
NOAA National Weather Service Accurately Predicted Sandy's Path
Five days before Sandy made landfall along the New Jersey coastline, NOAA's National Hurricane Center accurately projected the storm's path. This satellite animation shows Sandy's progress from the... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 10 months ago
High Speed Satellite Imagery of Hurricane Sandy
As the NOAA GOES-13 satellite provides on-going operational coverage of Hurricane Sandy, a special Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) has been scheduled for GOES-14, NOAA's backup geostationary wea... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 11 months ago
NOAA Changes GOES Satellite Positions in Space
NOAA's geostationary satellites are typically centered over 75 degrees west longitude (GOES East) and 135 degrees (GOES West). However, when the satellite in the GOES East position began having dat... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 11 months ago
The Arctic's Record Breaking Ice Melt
The sea ice in the Arctic Ocean dropped below the previous all-time record set in 2007. This year also marks the first time that there has been less than 4 million square kilometers (1.54 million ... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Hurricane Isaac Super Rapid Scan Imagery August 24-29, 2012
GOES-14 has been placed in Super Rapid Scan Mode to support research and development efforts on the next generation of geostationary satellites. This movie shows the visible channel one minute imag... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Super Rapid Scan Imagery of Isaac at Landfall
Hurricane Isaac made landfall in Louisiana in the evening of August 28, 2012. During the day, NOAA's GOES-14 satellite took images of the storm at 1 minute intervals, showing the development of Isa... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
GOES-14 Super Rapid Scan Imagery of Isaac
GOES-14 has been placed in Super Rapid Scan Mode to support research and development efforts on the next generation of geostationary satellites. This movie shows the visible channel one minute imag... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Following Isaac's Center of Circulation August 21-27, 2012
This combination of GOES East infrared and visible channel imagery follows Isaac's center of circulation across the Caribbean Sea starting August 21 at 0030Z and ends August 27, 2012 at 1445Z. -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Extended Drought Conditions in the United States
By early July 2012, more than 60% of the contiguous United States was experiencing drought conditions, nearly double the area from early January. This animation shows monthly composites of D1 to D4... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Drought and Vegetation Health
The United States is experiencing one of the worst droughts since the 1950's. Hot temperatures and low precipitation have created a visible impact across the nation: stressed and dying vegetation.... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Historic Storm Strikes U.S. East Coast
A week-long heat wave and an upper level disturbance over Chicago combined to spawn an historic storm featuring a rare and destructive phenomenon known as a derecho. A derecho is a widespread, long... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
NOAA Model Shows Wildfire Smoke Dispersion
When volcanoes erupt, toxic plumes are released, or wildfires burn, NOAA's HYSPLIT model is used to answer some fundamental questions: where will it go and how concentrated will it be? The HYSPLIT... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
NOAA Satellite Captures Venus Transit
The NOAA GOES satellites are most commonly associated with the non-stop coverage of severe weather over the western hemisphere. However, one of the sensors on-board the GOES spacecraft, the Solar ... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Hurricane Andrew 1992
Hurricane Andrew was only the third Category 5 storm to impact the U.S. when it made landfall on August 24, 1992 near Homestead, FL. A reanalysis of weather data in 2004 revealed that the storm mad... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Few 20th Century April Heat Records Remain
After a decade of warmer than average Aprils in the U.S., few highest monthly maximum temperature records for April remain from the 20th Century. This image plots the decade in which the highest av... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
The Halloween Storm, Also Known as "The Perfect Storm" - 1991
The conditions were "perfect" for a monstrous storm, a meteorological time bomb that would explode in the northern Atlantic Ocean creating waves ten stories high and imperiling the New England flee... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Animation of April 2012 Nor'easter Storm
A Nor'easter storm is bringing heavy rains and snow to many parts of the Northeast U.S. The system developed as a large front moved across the U.S. on Friday, combining with a smaller convective s... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Over 15,000 Records Broken as March 2012 Becomes Warmest on Record
According to NOAA scientists at the National Climatic Data Center (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/), record and near-record breaking temperatures dominated the eastern two-thirds of the nation and c... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Paul Schlatter - On Detecting Tornadoes with Dual-Polarization Radar
Paul Schlatter, a meteorologist with the NOAA National Weather Service, discusses how the introduction of dual-polarization radar technology is helping improve the identification of tornadoes, and ...- CC
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NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Ivan Csiszar - On Detecting Fires Using Satellites
Ivan Csiszar, a physical scientist with the NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research, discusses how the satellites are used to detect wildfires across the globe. Not only can satellites...- CC
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NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Tim Schmit - On the Evolution of the GOES Satellites
Tim Schmit, a research scientist with the NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research based at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, discusses how the GOES satellite has evolved over the y...- CC
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NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Debris from Japan Tsunami Travels Across the Pacific
After the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, tons of debris was swept into the Pacific. Much of it is buoyant enough to float on the surface and can be moved aro... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Solar Storm Eruption: Coronal Mass Ejection Headed for Earth
On Tuesday, March 6, 2012, a large solar flare erupted from the Sun. Data from NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center suggest that the coronal mass ejection - the blast of plasma from the Sun's su... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
GOES Rapid Scan Imagery: March 2, 2012 Severe Weather
On March 2, 2012, NOAA put its GOES-13 satellite into rapid scan mode, meaning that imagery was taken every 5 minutes to carefully monitor the developing severe weather system in the Midwest U.S. ... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Hurricane Jeanne - 2004
Hurricane Jeanne produced heavy rain over Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic and caused an estimated 3000 or more deaths in Haiti. Some 200,000 people in Gonaives lost their homes, ... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Hurricane Ivan - 2004
Hurricane Ivan was a classical, long-lived Cape Verde hurricane that reached Category 5 strength on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale three times. It was also the strongest hurricane on record tha... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Al Powell - On the Impact of Climate Shifts on Ecosystems
Al Powell, Director of NOAA's Center for Satellite Applications and Research, discusses how by analyzing global climate data they are finding connections between changes in fish populations and abr...- CC
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NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Pamela Grothe - Tsunami Digital Elevation Modeling
Pamela Grothe, from the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, discusses how they build digital elevation models to help predict how a tsunami wave might inundate the coast during impact.- CC
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NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
NOAA Satellite Operations
The Nation runs on NOAA satellites.
NOAA's satellites provide the bulk of the information for generating weather models, advisories, and warnings to the nation and world. Maintaining the operat...- CC
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NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Satellites Monitor La Niña in the Pacific
NOAA's POES satellites measure the temperature of the ocean surface - one of the primary indicators of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (the climate cycle that changes between El Niño and La Niña e... -
NOAAVisualizations uploaded a video 1 year ago
Steve Ackerman - On Satellite Research and Aircraft Hazards
Steve Ackerman, Director of the NOAA Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses using research satellites to identify aviation haza...- CC