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Flat map projection of Aquarius sea surface salinity

Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity Flat Maps 2012 (00:00:12)

[01-Mar-13] This visualization celebrates over a year of successful Aquarius observations. Sea surface salinity is shown on a flat map using a simple cartesian and extended Molleide projections. Versions are included with and without dates/color bars.

The range of time shown is December 2011 through December 2012. The data continuously loops through this range every 6 seconds. This visualization was generated based on version 2.0 of the Aquarius data products with all 3 scanning beams. Credit: Norman Kuring, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Original Movie: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004000/a004050/

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Last Updated: 26 July 2017