Science Source Stock Photo - Global Warming, LST Anomalies, 2014

Global Warming, LST Anomalies, 2014

Description: This map shows land surface temperature (LST) anomalies for July 27-August 3, 2014. They were built from data collected by MODIS on NASA's Aqua satellite, and the 2014 data is compared to the average for the same week as observed from 2005-2013. Observed by satellites uniformly across the entire globe, land surface temperatures are a measure of the amount of infrared energy emitted by Earth's surface as it is heated by daylight and cooled in the dark of night. LST anomalies are not absolute temperatures; instead, they show how much temperatures were above or below the average. The darkest reds show areas that were as much as 20°F above the norm; blues show areas that were below normal; light gray depicts areas with incomplete data; dark gray is ocean.

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NASA Earth Observatory/Science Source

Unique identifier: SS2658349

Legacy Identifier: JA9880

Type: Image

Size: 7200px × 3600px (~74 MB)

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