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Energy Budget (Also see the Remote Sensing Category)
| Surface Air Temperatures | North American Air Temperature at the Surface: Monthly Means for 1975 to 1999, from Willmott and Collaborators (~444 KB) |
| Global Air Temperature at the Surface: Monthly Means for 1982 to 2006, from NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis (~387 KB) | |
| Air Temperatures Above the Surface | Global Air Temperature at 925 MB: Monthly Means for 1982 to 2006, from NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis (~326 KB) |
| Global Air Temperature at 850 MB: Monthly Means for 1982 to 2006, from NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis (~308 KB) |
Animations displaying text citing the "NOAA/ESRL Physical Sciences Division," (which is located in Boulder, Colorado) contain images created using their web site at http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/. For information about the data displayed in these images, see Kalnay et al. (1996) [NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis], Legates and Willmott (1990), Willmott and Matsuura (1995) [precipitation and temperature from Willmott and collaborators], van den Dool et al. (2003) [CPC Soil Moisture], and Adler et al. (2003) [GPCP Precipitation]. Many of those animations were created by Ted Eckmann's Geography 14 students from Spring 2007 at UCSB, and we would like to thank them for their contributions.
The true-color MODIS images used in the fire animations were obtained from the MODIS Rapid Response Project at NASA/GSFC.
NASA's "Blue Marble" was produced by NASA's Earth Observatory (see Stöckli et al. 2005).
Animations citing NASA's MOVAS/Giovanni (MODIS Online Visualization and Analysis System) contain images that were acquired using the GES-DISC Interactive Online Visualization and Analysis Infrastructure (Giovanni) as part of the NASA's Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC).