OVERVIEW

The Goddard Earth Science (GES) Data and Information Service Center (DISC) is making some of its data available on Google Earth to facilitate scientific research. Our NASA imagery includes two dimensional (2D) flat data and three dimensional (3D) vertical data. An innovative solution integrates the vertical data from A-Train constellation satellites CloudSat, CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation), and Aqua (mainly MODIS and AIRS products) and campaign missions into Google Earth to vividly expose cloud, aerosol, and H2O characteristics and atmospheric temperature profile in the form of curtain along the satellite orbit.

Examples

The overlay display of orbit curtains and tropical rainfall derived from NASA data, respectively, from CloudSat, CALIPSO, and MODIS/Auqa, and TRMM.

The orbit time: 2007-02-23 12:00:00

The corresponding KMZ files:

CloudSat(Cloud Reflectivity)
CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Classification & Ice Water Phase Discrimination)
MODIS/Aqua (Atmospheric Temperature Profile)
TRMM (3-hour .25°x.25° tropical rainfall)

CloudSat	CALIPSO	MODIS/Aqua	TRMM	AIRS/Aqua


2007-03-15 01:00 Cloud Refectivity	2007-02-23 12:00 Cloud-Aerosol / Ice Water	2007-02-23 12:00 Atmospheric Temperature Profile	2004-03-01 Monthly .25°x.25° Surface Rainrate	2005-12-01 Montyly Total O3