Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall. At least 1,836 people died in the actual hurricane and in the subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane; total property damage was estimated at $81 billion (2005 USD), nearly triple the damage wrought by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. /Wikipedia
Evolution of Hurricane Katrina (Image 1)
A still from a visualization created by a team of researchers from the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) showing the dramatic evolution of Hurricane Katrina.
The AVL team, located at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana, Ill., created the visualization of Katrina based on computations of the hurricane's evolution that were created by researchers at the Earth System Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. The AVL team transformed the terabytes of data into a striking, time-evolving animation of the 36-hour period when the storm gained energy over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and heading for New Orleans.
The animation is part of a full-length planetarium film called "Dynamic Earth," that explores the inner workings of the Earth's climate engine. The film includes visualizations based on satellite monitoring data and advanced supercomputing simulations that explore the workings of Earth's climate, following a trail of energy that flows from the sun into the atmosphere, oceans and the biosphere. Both NCSA and NCAR are supported by the National Science Foundation. See Image 2.
Evolution of Hurricane Katrina (Image 2)
A still from a visualization created by a team of researchers from the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) showing the dramatic evolution of Hurricane Katrina. See Image 3.
Evolution of Hurricane Katrina (Image 3)
A still from a visualization created by a team of researchers from the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) showing the dramatic evolution of Hurricane Katrina. See Image 4.
Evolution of Hurricane Katrina (Image 4)
A still from a visualization created by a team of researchers from the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) showing the dramatic evolution of Hurricane Katrina.
You can view the complete visualization here >>
Dynamic Earth Hurricane Katrina simulation excerpt from Spitz Inc on Vimeo.
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