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In this QuikSCAT image, ocean colors indicate wind speed (blue is low, yellow is high), and white streamlines indicate wind direction.

Teaching Old Data New Tricks

20 years after NASA launched a new radar remote sensing instrument called a scatterometer on the Seasat satellite, data from that first scatterometer and its descendants have opened up new possibilities for scientists who study climate change.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
Damage from a category 5 typhoon completely wiped out a coconut and breadfruit plantation in the Caroline Islands, located east of the Philippines in the Pacific Ocean.

Stirring up Life

Using data from three satellite instruments, researchers find that a tropical cyclone had a significant effect on phytoplankton production in the South China Sea.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
The image above is from TOPEX/Poseidon on 10 November 1997.

Rising Above Tide Gauges

TOPEX/Poseidon data help a scientist find a rise in global mean sea level.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
The NSCAT image above shows Typhoon Violet near Japan in 1996.

Reckoning with Winds

NSCAT wind vectors and SSM/I precipitable water color images reveal the physics in action for typhoons.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
The image above shows DODS architecture

Overcoming Data Incompatibility

The Distributed Oceanographic Data System (DODS) provides an opportunity for scientists to share oceanographic data.
Feature Article
July 23, 2020
In Mankerni, Sri Lanka, four eyewitnesses to the December 26, 2004 tsunami stand on the remains of the house where they were when they first realized a tsunami was about to strike.

Making Waves in Tsunami Research

Data from Jason and TOPEX/Poseidon give scientists the first detailed profile of a major tsunami event.
Feature Article
July 22, 2020
The image above shows ocean images translating to a model

Lovely, Dark, and Deep

Scientists use TOPEX/Poseidon data to better gauge the impact of the ocean on climate change.
Feature Article
July 22, 2020
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