Showing posts with label WORLDWIDE WEATHER. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WORLDWIDE WEATHER. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

HIGH-RESOLUTION GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELING GIVES LOOK AT GLOBAL AERSOLS


FROM: NASA
Portrait of Global Aerosols

High-resolution global atmospheric modeling run on the Discover supercomputer at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., provides a unique tool to study the role of weather in Earth's climate system. The Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5 (GEOS-5) is capable of simulating worldwide weather at resolutions of 10 to 3.5 kilometers (km).

This portrait of global aerosols was produced by a GEOS-5 simulation at a 10-kilometer resolution. Dust (red) is lifted from the surface, sea salt (blue) swirls inside cyclones, smoke (green) rises from fires, and sulfate particles (white) stream from volcanoes and fossil fuel emissions.

Image credit-William Putman, NASA-Goddard

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