Continuing on the theme of updating older visualizations into newer formats, below is a clip of the impact of Superstorm Sandy on Delaware Estuary water surface elevations.  The original MS Excel and screen capture version is posted here.  The new version developed in R with the animation package is cleaner and more portable.

The graph shows measured and predicted water surface elevations provided by the NOAA PORTS system for the Delaware River and Bay.  The shape of the Delaware Estuary amplifies the tidal signal at the mouth of the estuary resulting in a wider tidal range at the upper end of the estuary, which is also the more urbanized densely populated end.  Storm surges are a particular concern since the potential exists for the surge to be amplified within the estuary.
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Animations of continuous data in GIF format offer some portability advantages over video files.  A few years ago, shortly after Superstorm Sandy, a colleague and I developed a video of animated water surface elevations from USGS gages in Barnegat Bay, NJ as the eye of the storm approached.  That version used video screen capture and MS Excel VBA - you can see it here.

With the pending 5 year anniversary of Sandy and the R animation package, the time was right to revisit the animation as a GIF.
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