Hurricane Irene

  • Released Thursday, September 15, 2011
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This visualization follows the development of Hurricane Irene as it moves up the East Coast of the United States in August of 2011. There are three versions of this visualization. Two of the versions follow the eye of the storm until it dissipates, then pulls back to reveal the rain fall accumulation track as measured by the Tropcical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) using two different color tables. The first version only includes rainfall along the storm track. The second and third versions include all rainfall. The third version shows the rainfall accumulating as the storm moves.

These visualizations were created to support presenstations at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) 2011.

Hurricane Irene visualization of clouds followed by rain accumulation using TRMM color bar

TRMM rain accumulation color bar

TRMM rain accumulation color bar

Hurricane Irene visualization of clouds followed by rain accumulation using SVS color bar

Hurricane Irene visualization of clouds with running rainfall accumulation using SVS color bar

SVS rain accumulation color bar

SVS rain accumulation color bar

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Thursday, September 15, 2011.
This page was last updated on Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 10:03 PM EDT.

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