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File:Sea Surface Temperature - November 2007.jpg

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During La Niña, sea surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific are below average, and temperatures in the western tropical Pacific are above average. This pattern is evident in this temperature anomaly image for November 2007. This image shows the temperature for the top millimeter of the ocean’s surface—the skin temperature—for November 2007 compared to the long-term average. A strong band of blue (cool) water appears along the Equator, particularly strong near South America. Orange to red (warm) conditions appear north and south of this strong blue band. The 2007 data were collected by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite. The long-term average is based on data from a series of sensors that flew on NOAA Pathfinder satellites from 1985 to 1997.
Date 21 December 2007
Source NASA Earth Observatory http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17869
Author NASA image by Jesse Allen, using AMSR-E data processed and provided by Chelle Gentemann and Frank Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems.

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Image title IDL TIFF file
Width 1,440 px
Height 720 px
Compression scheme LZW
Pixel composition RGB
Orientation Normal
Number of components 3
Horizontal resolution 100 dpi
Vertical resolution 100 dpi
Data arrangement chunky format
Software used Adobe Photoshop CS2 Macintosh
File change date and time 14:16, 20 December 2007
Colour space Uncalibrated

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