Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Data, data, data!

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/GlobalMaps/

The above links to a series of animations on the NASA earth observatory website.  Click on any one of the nine maps to visualize how a variable, such as snow cover (my personal favorite) or sea surface temperature, changes over a 10 year period.

Most interesting on the snow cover animation is how snowy the northern hemisphere is during their winter.  The snow cover during in the south during southern hemisphere winter, though, is much less widespread and is confined mostly to the Andes Mountains.


Visualization of the greenhouse gas concentration measurements around the globe!

  



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