This ‘Picture of Day’ introduces a new set of time enabled layers. Satellite photo taken by Daily Aqua, 2006-08-31, shows Cat 3 hurricane John touching California, while the Ernesto system is still visible.
The picture is overlayed with surface wind directions, viewable as small black arrows. The intensity is color coded and a legend is in preparation. As a result of the NASA contribution to tropical cyclone research the MAP’06 Project combines weather models data with real satellite views.
The complete set covers temperature, pressure, humidity, storms tracks, precipitation and more data sets. A model run is started everyday and estimates data up to 5 days ahead. All of this will be usable in the explorer soon, but at least the calendar widget needs some work to give access to the future.
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