Scientific Use Cases Overview

Example ID Science Topic Services Used Datasets Used Details
1 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) over a hot spot region Scatter and Histogram Plots of Two Variables; 2D Variable Map AMSR-E SST; ECMWF-Interim SST Scientific Use Case 1
2 Northern Hemisphere West Pacific and East Pacific vertical velocity profiles 3-D Variable Average Vertical Profile ECMWF-Interim vertical velocity; CAM5 vertical velocity Scientific Use Case 2
3 Climate-Scale Features of Total Cloud Fraction and Pressure Vertical Velocity 2D Variable Map; 3D Variable 2D Slice MODIS total cloud fraction; ECMWF pressure vertical velocity Scientific Use Case 3
4 Relative Humidity at 700 hPa 3D Variable 2D Slice ECMWF-Interim Relative Humidity Scientific Use Case 4
5 Comparison of two precipitation observational datasets Difference Plot of Two Variables TRMM Precipitation and GPCP Precipitation Scientific Use Case 5
6 Evaluation of NCAR CAM5 model with MODIS total cloud fraction Difference Plot of Two Variables NCAR CAM Total Cloud Fraction and MODIS Total Cloud Fraction Scientific Use Case 6
7 Correlation Maps of TRMM Precipitation and GRACE Water Land Storage Time-lagged Correlation Map TRMM Precipitation and Grace Equivalent Water Height Over Land Scientific Use Case 7
8 Identifying the SST Variability Associated with ENSO (El Nino and La Nina) Empirical Orthogonal Function ECMWF-Interim Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Scientific Use Case 8