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Navigating Carbon Emissions Through Innovative Visualizations
Compelling visuals and animations serve as powerful tools to clarify complex data, making science accessible and engaging to a broader audience. NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) plays a vital role in this effort, creating stunning visual content that effectively communicates scientific research.
Operating from the Center for Climate Simulation at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the SVS team utilizes the advanced capabilities of the Discover supercomputer to produce intricate and accurate visual representations. By leveraging high-end filmmaking technologies, such as 3D modeling and sophisticated animation, they illuminate scientific phenomena.
Utilizing supercomputing resources, SVS visualizers have crafted a data-driven animation that illustrates the dynamics of carbon dioxide emissions across the globe. This visualization is grounded in comprehensive climate datasets and intricate emissions maps developed in collaboration with NASA scientists and external partners. The result is a compelling visual narrative that demonstrates how emissions from power plants, wildfires, and urban areas disperse worldwide through atmospheric movements and weather systems.
According to climate scientist Lesley Ott from NASA Goddard, who contributed to this visualization, “Understanding the origins of carbon emissions and their effects on the Earth is crucial for both policymakers and researchers. This animation vividly illustrates the interconnectedness of our planet and how various weather patterns influence emission distribution.”
The SVS team continues to merge visual storytelling with the robust capabilities of supercomputing to educate and engage diverse audiences with NASA’s research initiatives and findings.
The NASA Center for Climate Simulation is an integral part of NASA’s High-End Computing Program, which encompasses facilities like the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility located at Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.
As part of its ongoing outreach, NASA will highlight 29 of its computational milestones at the upcoming SC24, an international supercomputing conference scheduled for November 18-22, 2024, in Atlanta. For further technical details, visit:
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