Earth's Climate Change Visualizations

Maps and animations depicting climate change effects on Earth's surface, highlighting temperature variations and environmental changes.

ocean surface is covered by the El-Nino sea surface temperature field.
ocean surface is covered by the El-Nino sea surface temperature field.
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Two large icebergs, designated B-15A and C-16, captured by NASA's Terra satellite, are of the Ross Ice Shelf and Ross Sea in Antarctica, acquired on December 10, 2000 during Terra orbit 5220, show
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Infographic that shows us the different climatic areas that we can find around the Earth. Adobe InDesign (.indd); 4842x3248.
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These images from NASA's Terra spacecraft provide global, seasonal summaries of a quantity called the Directional Hemispherical Reflectance (DHR), also sometimes referred to as the 'black-sky' albedo.
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Close Brush with Enceladus
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Hurricane Ian Captured in Infrared by AIRS. NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard the Aqua satellite captured imagery of Hurricane Ian over the Gulf of Mexico between Cuba and Florida just before 2 a.m. local time Sept. 28, 2022. At that time, the Category 3 storm was in a period of rapid intensification - when a hurricane's wind speeds increase by 35 mph (56 kph) or more within 24 hours - while moving northward toward Florida after having recently made landfall over western Cuba. The image shows cloud or surface temperature measurements taken at infrared wavelengths. The large purple area indicates very cold clouds at about minus 90 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 67 degrees Celsius, or around 210 Kelvin on the map's scale). These clouds are carried high into the atmosphere by tall thunderstorms and are associated with very heavy rainfall. Warmer areas with shallower rain clouds are shown in blue and green. The orange and red areas represent mostly cloud-free air. The
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Infographic of monsoons, their causes and the principal areas affected. QuarkXPress (.qxp); 6259x4015.
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Schematic of Components of Potentially Tornadogenic Thunderstorm.
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Mechanism of trench earthquake occurrence. Sectional view vector illustration
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Composition of crust and its components under magnification. Geology as science about earth. Soil layers on planet. Components of world globe. Examination of contents and residues in ground. Composition of crust and its components under magnification. Geology as science about earth
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Infographic that explains the difference between seas and oceans, the types of seas, salinity of water and the ocean relief. QuarkXPress (.qxp); Adobe InDesign (.indd); 4960x3188.
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Tropical Storm Isidore was born in mid-September, 2000 north of Venezuela. This images is from Atmospheric Infrared Sounding System (AIRS) on NASA's Aqua.
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This animation illustrates the path the Stardust return capsule will follow once it enters Earth's atmosphere.
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NASA's SeaWinds instrument on the QuikScat satellite shows winds are blocked by an island mountain barrier on South Georgia Island, in the South Atlantic Ocean in the year 2000.
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Earth atmosphere layers. List of exosphere, thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere and troposphere structure. Education vector infographic of atmosphere, troposphere and exosphere illustration. Earth atmosphere layers. List of exosphere, thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere and troposphere structure. Education vector infographic
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Mechanism of trench earthquake occurrence. Sectional view vector illustration
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Computer graphics about the planet areas affected by food emergency due to internal and external factors. QuarkXPress (.qxp); 2480x3248.
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Surface soil moisture in the Southeastern United States as retrieved from NASA's SMAP satellite observatory at around 6 a.m. on Oct. 5, 2015. Large parts of South Carolina appear blue, representing the impact of heavy localized rains and flooding.
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Mechanism of trench earthquake occurrence. Sectional view vector illustration
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On Oct. 9, 2018 at about 4 30pm EDT, the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Radiometer got one more snap shot of Hurricane Michael. The radiance acquired by the SMAP L-band Microwave Radiometer can see through clouds and rain, and is sensitive to the extreme ocean surface winds under a tropical storm or hurricane. Hurricane Michael made landfall in the Florida panhandle Wednesday as a major Category 4 storm.
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Map Shows Belizean Protected Areas Assessed for Risk. In a paper published in November 2022 in Frontiers in Remote Sensing, researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, with colleagues in Belize, used data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite to rank 24 protected marine areas off the Belizean coast based on the risks coral face from murky water and rising temperatures. All the areas are part of the 185-mile-long (298-kilometer-long) Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, which encompasses a vibrant network of marine environments that supports thousands of animal and plant species and drives the Central American country's largest industry, tourism. The system is one of about 1,200 UNESCO World Heritage sites around the world. Analyzing imagery from 2002 to 2022, researchers developed a coral vulnerability index - a score between 2 and 12 that characterizes the risk to coral, with higher scores signifying greater risk. Th
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Infographic on the various existing types of volcanoes. Adobe InDesign (.indd); 4960x3188.
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The San Joaquin Valley, CA is one of the most productive agricultural regions in the United States and the world. The image shows the Evaporative Stress Index over the San Joaquin Valley on May 22, 2022 at 06 04 PM PDT where many fields show high ESI values that indicate low plant stress whereas low ESI values indicate high plant stress. ECOSTRESS's ability to detect Evaporative Stress over the agricultural fields can help farmers and decision makers in their choices. As California is in a continuing drought, it is important to monitor that agricultural plant life. ECOSTRESS is a thermal instrument on the International Space Station that measures the temperature of the ground, which is hotter than the air temperature during the day. It was launched to the space station in 2018. Its primary mission is to identify critical thresholds of water use and water stress in plants and to detect the timing, location, and predictive factors leading to plant water uptake decline and/or cessation. T
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