viz tools: python and Blender
data: NOAA coral reef watch data
All the tools and data are freely available online.
The animation shows the most recent 90 days of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific.
The westward moving features are Tropical Instability Waves (TIWs) – horizontal waves in the ocean resulting from the interaction between the eastward and westward flowing equatorial currents. This interaction is a type of shear instability. An instability is where small disturbances can grow rapidly and fluids are often unstable where there are large differences in the speed of the flow (shear). This happens at all scales and can be observed when you stir a coffee, in the clouds moving past an island, in the jet stream, and around the Great Red Spot on Jupiter.
Mathew Barlow
Professor of Climate Science
University of Massachusetts Lowell
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What causes the cold spots on the west coast of the Baja Peninsula and Peru?
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The penguins of the Galapagos, really look it up it’s mad
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viz tools: python and Blender
data: NOAA coral reef watch data
All the tools and data are freely available online.
The animation shows the most recent 90 days of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific.
The westward moving features are Tropical Instability Waves (TIWs) – horizontal waves in the ocean resulting from the interaction between the eastward and westward flowing equatorial currents. This interaction is a type of shear instability. An instability is where small disturbances can grow rapidly and fluids are often unstable where there are large differences in the speed of the flow (shear). This happens at all scales and can be observed when you stir a coffee, in the clouds moving past an island, in the jet stream, and around the Great Red Spot on Jupiter.
Mathew Barlow
Professor of Climate Science
University of Massachusetts Lowell
What causes the cold spots on the west coast of the Baja Peninsula and Peru?
The penguins of the Galapagos, really look it up it’s mad