Animated Maps: Ten Years of Sea Surface Temperatures

Sea Surface Temperature is a key climate and weather measurement used for weather prediction, ocean forecasts, tropical cyclone forecasts, and in coastal applications such as fisheries, pollution monitoring and tourism. El Niño and La Niña are two examples of climate events which are forecast through the use of sea surface temperature maps.
The Naval Oceanographic Office sea surface temperature dataset is calculated from satellite-based microwave and infrared imagery. These data are optimally interpolated to provide a daily, global map of the midday (12:00 pm) sea surface temperature.
This animated map was made using Esri's ArcGIS Pro, Cinema 4D, Redshift, and Adobe After Effects. Please visit ow.ly/fm2950xgu0B for more information about ArcGIS Pro.
Data source: Naval Oceanographic Office. 2008. K10 Global 10km Analyzed SST data set. Ver. 1.0. PO.DAAC, CA, USA.
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Music: Milestone by Yehezkel Raz
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[@italodesena]

Awesome! It's a real leap of visualization possibilites

[@ldelgg]

how is the aral sea calculated?

[@raynaldgarnier5062]

AWESOME! Where's the Making Of? ;)

[@MichaelGustavsonArchitect]

Remove the clouds.

[@kriscoloradolv]

Look at the hot temps flowing from the west of Mexico and other Central American countries. We need to start actively controlling the climate by cooling the ocean surface with water pumps. Pump nutrient rich water up and take hot surface water with pollutants to the depths. Carefully implemented, of course. We could bring cooler temps and more rain to the desert southwest, and reduce hurricanes. Hurricanes need surface temps of 79 degrees or greater to form. Tropical storms are ok for rainfall, but hurricane force winds aren't needed.