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Best of Earth Scan Lab

Over a number of years, the ESL has acquired a number of images that we've assembled into a "gallery". If you see a really good one arrive in our current imagery let us know to make sure we add it!

Gallery by Sensor type

Gallery by Subject

Image of the Week

GOES-12 Ch1 Hurricane Bertha
July 8, 2008

Image of the Week Archive

   New Orleans Katrina Flooding
      September 04, 2005

Be aware that many of the links below lead to very large files. Expect long download times!

Ocean Animations

Gulf of Mexico

2004 January to May GOES-12 SST/SSH Alongtrack Animation

2005 Hurricane Season Microwave Cool Wake Animations

Movie Loop of GOES SST and Surface Currents at 26 N, 92 W: (March/April 2001)

Movie Loop of Loop Current frontal eddy motion: May 1999

Loop Current Frontal Eddy Hovmoller: Jan-May 2004

Animated gif of Eddy Zap

Movie Loop of GOES SST and drifter motion: April 2001-Nov 2004 Quicktime movie

Loop Current Circulation (sea surface height) by Robert Leben

Loop Current Circulation (modeled temperature) by Susan Welsh

The images listed here are animation of some of the more prominent storms. These files are large!!

Hurricane Animations

Hurrican Rita (Sep. 2005)

GOES water vapor animation of Rita's life cycle

Hurricane Katrina (Aug. 2005)

Life cycle of Katrina (~33MB)

Close-up of Eye (~33 MB)

Katrina's Approach to Gulf Coast (~27 MB)

Hurricane Ivan (Sept. 2004)

GOES Animated gif of IVAN

Hurricane Isabel (Sept. 2003)

GOES Water Vapor Animation

Hurricane Isidore (Sept. 2002)

Hurricane Isidore GOES-8 animation

Hurricane Lili (Oct 2002)

Animated gif of Lili with contours

Tropical Storm Allison (June 2001)

Tropical Storm Allison, June 2001, animation

Hurricane Georges (Sept 1998)

GOES animation of storm