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I'm George Huffman, I'm the Deputy Project Scientist for GPM.

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As you look at this visualization you see a

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number of storms, but Kilo is interesting because it's very long-lived. It

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started south of Hawaii and then progressed across

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the Dateline, at which point it went from being a hurricane to being a typhoon.

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Because of the long life that Kilo had, the GPM

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Core Observatory had a chance to catch quite a number overpasses

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and this was important to give us different looks at different parts of the

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lifecycle of the storm. There are things that

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happen to tropical storms during their lifecycle

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in particular, the so-called eyewall replacement, where

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a new eyewall forms outside of the old one and then chokes off the old one

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and takes its place. The chance to see that is increased

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when we have lots of overpasses.

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Kilo is a really great example of why we need satellite

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data. We can study these storms, which are out

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in the vast expanse of the Pacific, out a long way from any place, 

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not hurting anybody.
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