El Niño’s Shifting Winds

A NASA scatterometer observes how winds shifted over the Pacific Ocean during one of the strongest El Niños on record.

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NASA Earth Observatory maps by Joshua Stevens using RapidScat data from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published March 3, 2016
Data acquired January 1, 2015 - January 28, 2016

Source:

ISS > RapidScat