Some animations I have made. You are welcome to freely use these for educational or press purposes, with attribution to "Mathew Barlow, University of Massachusetts Lowell."
See also my gallery of atmospheric dynamics animations.
speedy_baroclinic_instability_paraview.gif
Animation of 9-day simulation of baroclinic instability with SpeedyWeather: dry primative equations, dynamics only, Jablonowski-Williamson initial conditions with small perturbation, T170L32 resolution. This version shows three contours of 500 hPa heights along the axis of the jet stream at that level and sea level pressure.
speedyweather_baroclinic_instability.gif
Animation of 9-day simulation of baroclinic instability with SpeedyWeather: dry primative equations, dynamics only, Jablonowski-Williamson initial conditions with small perturbation, T42L8 resolution. This version shows 500 hPa heights and 500 hPa vorticity.
speedyweather_baroclinic_instability_slp.gif
Animation of 9-day simulation of baroclinic instability with SpeedyWeather: dry primative equations, dynamics only, Jablonowski-Williamson initial conditions with small perturbation, T42L8 resolution. This version shows 500 hPa heights and sea level pressure.
hgt_anim.gif
This animation takes a 2D figure of 500 hPa heights and winds and adds 3D perspective to the elevation of the height field. (Vertical scale greatly exagerated.) The original figure was made in python and the animation was made in Blender.
tonga_wave_labeled
Initial atmospheric response to Tonga eruption
Based on 10-minute GOES-West IR (band 13) data, from 4 UTC - 10:50 UTC, 15 January 2022, downloaded from the AWS. The data is first slightly smoothed (20 iterations of a 1-2-1 filter in lat and lon) and then the difference is calculated between each time step, to highlight the wave propagation. The differences are then animated with ParaView.
tonga_meteosat_antipode
Atmospheric response to Tonga eruption going in to and out of the antipodal point over North Africa
Meteosat-11 15-minute IR data, 18 UTC 15 Jan - 2 UTC 16 Jan.
tonga_2_sat
Combination of GOES-West and Meteosat 11 to show the first 60 hours of global atmospheric response, beginning at 4 UTC on 15 January 2022.
