Скачать или смотреть Spot Angle | This May Look Like a Van Gogh Painting, But It's NASA's ECCO Model of Earth's Oceans

The NASA ECCO (Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean) model is a highly detailed, continuous depiction of Earth's oceans created using hundreds of millions of measurements from satellites, buoys, and other sensors. It integrates data on temperature, salinity, sea ice concentration, pressure, water height, and ocean flow to provide a realistic reconstruction of global ocean conditions over the past 30 years.The model helps scientists study ocean dynamics such as the transport of nutrients, carbon, and heat, and better understand large-scale ocean features like the Gulf Stream, Agulhas, and Kuroshio currents. ECCO reveals complex ocean current patterns and underwater flows that were previously unobservable or could be studied only through time-consuming methods. Supported by NASA and an international consortium, the ECCO project improves knowledge of ocean processes critical for ecosystems and climate predictions. Visualizations of ECCO data produce stunning images resembling Van Gogh paintings but show the living, dynamic "neural mesh" of Earth's oceanic system