microrobert
03-30-2012, 01:45 PM
Better Than A Van Gogh: NASA Visualizes All The World’s Ocean Currents
We imagine the ocean as having high tides and low tides, water that comes in and out in waves. Beyond that, how does water actually move around the world? What’s that flow look like?
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio (http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/) assembled this remarkable animation of the surface currents of our oceans. It’s called Perpetual Ocean (http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003827/), and the full work is 20 minutes of HD video, assembled from a huge amount of satellite, on location, and computational data generated by ECCO2 (http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/) (Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase 2). ECCO2 itself exists to better understand our oceans and their role in the changing global climate.
Better Than A Van Gogh: NASA Visualizes All The World's Ocean Currents | Co.Design: business + innovation + design (http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669361/better-than-a-van-gogh-nasa-visualizes-all-the-worlds-ocean-currents)
We imagine the ocean as having high tides and low tides, water that comes in and out in waves. Beyond that, how does water actually move around the world? What’s that flow look like?
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio (http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/) assembled this remarkable animation of the surface currents of our oceans. It’s called Perpetual Ocean (http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003827/), and the full work is 20 minutes of HD video, assembled from a huge amount of satellite, on location, and computational data generated by ECCO2 (http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/) (Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase 2). ECCO2 itself exists to better understand our oceans and their role in the changing global climate.
Better Than A Van Gogh: NASA Visualizes All The World's Ocean Currents | Co.Design: business + innovation + design (http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669361/better-than-a-van-gogh-nasa-visualizes-all-the-worlds-ocean-currents)