This data on hurricanes Gilbert and Diana was contributed for by the Laboratory for Atmoshperes, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. All data is in a format to be read by NCSA Image or NIH Image. Custom palettes are provided.
Several of the images and one of the animations were rendered using a ╘synthetic stereo╒ technique pioneered at NASA/Goddard which gives the images a three-dimensional appearance. To see this 3D effect in these images, a pair of red/green glasses is needed and the 3D palette must be used. The 3D effect is observable by about 85% of the population. Either red/green color blindness, or single eye dominant vision will interfere with the effect.
For further information on the method of constructing these type of images, or on the phenomena seen in this data, you may wish to consult the following references:
A.F. Hasler, H. Pierce, K.R. Morris, and J. Dodge, ╥Meteorological Data Fields ╘in Perspective╒╙, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 66, Number 7, July 1985, pp. 795-801.
A.F. Hasler, J. Strong, H. Pierce, and R.H. Woodward, ╥Automatic Analysis of Stereoscopic GOES/GOES and GOES/NOAA Image Pairs for Measurement of Hurricane Cloud Top Height and Structure╙, Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 16-19 May 1989, San Diego, CA.
A. Frederick Hasler and K. Robert Morris, ╥Hurricane Structure and Wind Fields form Stereoscopic and Infrared Satellite Observations and Radar Data╙, Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology, Volume 25, Number 6, June 1986, pp. 709-727.
A.F. Hasler and M.L. desJardins, ╥AOIPS/2: An Interactive System to Process, Analyze, and Display Meteorological Data Sets for Nowcasting╙, Advances in Space Research, Volume 7, Number 11, 1987, pp.375-388.
