It looks like it's not warming.

Oh wow...

The reason we're all seeing this today is because of Jesus.

Thanks Jesus.

Full-screen button or don't even submit it.

I've seen it like that before.

Pfft....no wonder why predicting the weather is so easy.

OnmyojiOmn: Full-screen button or don't even submit it.

NASA link at the bottom of the article goes to 1080p version.

That was awesome. I came.

Photoshopped.

FTA Video Caption: "This video shows Earth's weather from August 17 to August 26, 2009. It also shows how beautiful this planet is, and how insignificant we are. It was created at a 7-kilometer resolution with NASA's GEOS-5 atmospheric general circulation model.

Thanks for reminding me of this before I've finished my first coffee this morning.

From that video I can tell you this:
There will be 17 named atlantic storms next year.
5 will be hurricanes.
2 will hit the US coast.
8 people will be killed by falling trees.
4 people will be killed by touching power lines.

I'm no scientist, but how come it never got dark?

Four Horsemen of the Domestic Dispute: From that video I can tell you this:
There will be 17 named atlantic storms next year.
5 will be hurricanes.
2 will hit the US coast.
8 people will be killed by falling trees.
4 people will be killed by touching power lines.

How many will be killed by touching wieners?

What I came here for was accomplished in one. Efficiency!

Then there was Weather Station Bravo November - December 1969.

Roughly 50N50W or there abouts.

USCG Castlerock.

whatabrotherknow: I'm no scientist, but how come it never got dark?

Mike's Nature trick.

That Guy...From That Show!: Thanks for reminding me of this before I've finished my first coffee this morning.

You'd really hate this (new window).

FTA Video Caption: "This video shows Earth's weather from August 17 to August 26, 2009. It also shows how beautiful this planet is, and how insignificant we are. It was created at a 7-kilometer resolution with NASA's GEOS-5 atmospheric general circulation model."

A model, created by humans, of the weather patterns of an entire planet shows me how insignificant human's are? Why, because the model misses some important nuances? I don't get it.

I never really got the, "wow, the universe is to big and I'm so small, I am so insignificant in comparison". I'm the one making the judgement of the grandeur of the universe in the first place. Am I then supposed to put on a facade of humility? If I am so insignificant, who am I to say the universe is? It's not that I think that we are particularly significant. I just don't know how significant, or authentic, it is to impose significance upon the universe and deny that significance to humanity (as part of that universe on which I impose a significance the universe is surely indifferent to).

"How insignificant we are?" The author is only capable of thinking in terms of physical scale, apparently. What a sadly limited point of view.

There are boobs on that planet. Do they make a camera with zoom capability that we can use to get close ups?

Fake.

What GEOS may look like:

Massa Damnata: FTA Video Caption: "This video shows Earth's weather from August 17 to August 26, 2009. It also shows how beautiful this planet is, and how insignificant we are. It was created at a 7-kilometer resolution with NASA's GEOS-5 atmospheric general circulation model."

A model, created by humans, of the weather patterns of an entire planet shows me how insignificant human's are? Why, because the model misses some important nuances? I don't get it.

I never really got the, "wow, the universe is to big and I'm so small, I am so insignificant in comparison". I'm the one making the judgement of the grandeur of the universe in the first place. Am I then supposed to put on a facade of humility? If I am so insignificant, who am I to say the universe is? It's not that I think that we are particularly significant. I just don't know how significant, or authentic, it is to impose significance upon the universe and deny that significance to humanity (as part of that universe on which I impose a significance the universe is surely indifferent to).

have you already, or are you going to, open a church where we can all come and worship you??

Ashtrey: That Guy...From That Show!: Thanks for reminding me of this before I've finished my first coffee this morning.

You'd really hate this (new window).

or this (new window).

Why is it flat?

That Guy...From That Show!: Thanks for reminding me of this before I've finished my first coffee this morning.

Can we have your liver then?

Kind of neat. Too short, though.

/That's what she said.

Earth's weather like you have never seen it before I've see it every day at work for the last thirty years...

/getting to be almost as good as the physical models, though

Why is the US always centred in these? It's fascinating, but do they have any other videos of other parts of the world? Or videos of entire seasons or years? I want to see what Japan and Europe experience weather-wise on a daily basis.

/it's always dull and grey here

In before global warmi- awww, shiat.

whatabrotherknow: I'm no scientist, but how come it never got dark?

It was a visualization of output from a very high resolution simulation - you weren't seeing the equivalent of a bunch of stills from a satellite. On this page, if you scroll to the bottom, you can see the satellite image they were attempting to match.

Because it's a short video, a lot of folks will not appreciate how technically difficult and computationally expensive it was to make that visualization. But it's just the sort of exercise weather and climate modelers have to do often to check their models and optimize them for computing efficiency.

Ishkur: Why is the US always centred in these? It's fascinating, but do they have any other videos of other parts of the world? Or videos of entire seasons or years? I want to see what Japan and Europe experience weather-wise on a daily basis.

Probably because the US paid for them.

No bucks, no Buck Rogers.



And they all wanna see Buck Rogers.

/hot like re-entry

Lydia_C, thank you. Missed that whole "modeling" concept at first look.

As a GEOS-5 programmer, I'm getting a kick out of these comments.

/really
//never thought I'd get to use this meme

whatabrotherknow: dark

Forget dark - it's not even spinning.

/damn teachers lied

whatabrotherknow, it was easy to miss... which I think is what makes it so cool in the first place.

The Saturday Night Massacre: As a GEOS-5 programmer, I'm getting a kick out of these comments.

/really
//never thought I'd get to use this meme

Hey, since you're here - the GEOS-5 web page is down. Fix that, would ya? ;-)

MBooda: Earth's weather like you have never seen it before I've see it every day at work for the last thirty years...

/getting to be almost as good as the physical models, though
This, I look at this stuff everyday I work. So this is really nothing new. And I'm actually looking at the real thing.

Savage Belief: The reason we're all seeing this today is because of Jesus.

Thanks Jesus.

He's went from carpenter to writer for Gizmodo

Lydia_C: whatabrotherknow: I'm no scientist, but how come it never got dark?

It was a visualization of output from a very high resolution simulation - you weren't seeing the equivalent of a bunch of stills from a satellite. On this page, if you scroll to the bottom, you can see the satellite image they were attempting to match.

Because it's a short video, a lot of folks will not appreciate how technically difficult and computationally expensive it was to make that visualization. But it's just the sort of exercise weather and climate modelers have to do often to check their models and optimize them for computing efficiency.

I appreciate it but fail to see its significance.

Lydia_C: The Saturday Night Massacre: As a GEOS-5 programmer, I'm getting a kick out of these comments.

/really
//never thought I'd get to use this meme

Hey, since you're here - the GEOS-5 web page is down. Fix that, would ya? ;-)

I opened a ticket at 7:38 AM - guess the traffic via Gizmodo is taxing it.

FlippityFlap 2009-11-22 10:29:36 AM
Why is it flat?

It's the pixels. I know from seeing ..... Oh hell, you know the rest

Totally fake. A week passes, and it doesn't even get dark once. Who do these NASA "scientists" take us for, anyway? CUT THEIR FUNDING!

Olfin Bedwere: Lydia_C: whatabrotherknow: I'm no scientist, but how come it never got dark?

It was a visualization of output from a very high resolution simulation - you weren't seeing the equivalent of a bunch of stills from a satellite. On this page, if you scroll to the bottom, you can see the satellite image they were attempting to match.

Because it's a short video, a lot of folks will not appreciate how technically difficult and computationally expensive it was to make that visualization. But it's just the sort of exercise weather and climate modelers have to do often to check their models and optimize them for computing efficiency.

I appreciate it but fail to see its significance.

Some examples of where the ability to run these models becomes significant:

- in our ability to project storm paths
- in our ability to produce seasonal weather projections for crop planning
- in our ability to produce longer term climate projections, to understand the potential for altered climate patterns (persistent droughts, flooding, shifts in agricultural zones, etc.)
- in our ability to project ocean-based or -driven phenomena like El Nino and the South Asian Monsoon (important for climate, agriculture, fishing, etc.)

Numerical weather prediction and climate modeling are two areas where new science and advances in high end computing go hand in hand. The trend is toward increasingly high resolution, in order to capture things like cloud formation that happen on the scale of a few kilometers or less. Right now the models have to parameterize such things (sub-grid scale processes), and when you do so, you inevitably lose some accuracy.

The video is a bit of a "look at me!" for the general public, but the work behind it is incredibly important for society's welfare.

The Saturday Night Massacre, I was kidding about the web page but I really would like to read more about GEOS-5 eventually, so thanks for filing the ticket. ;-)

Ishkur: Why is the US always centred in these? It's fascinating, but do they have any other videos of other parts of the world? Or videos of entire seasons or years? I want to see what Japan and Europe experience weather-wise on a daily basis.

/it's always dull and grey here

We paid for the satellite so we get to be in the picture.

whatabrotherknow: I'm no scientist, but how come it never got dark?

Sunlight movement was too complex to model, so they used 50% sunlight. Similarly, reality was too complex to model, so they used 50% reality.

OK, what else you got?

Looks super on my 2" phone.

If I get a bigger screen can I see the little Chineese guys seeding snow clouds?

The northern part of South America seems to be pulsating like a heart.