Earth  ID: 3779

Hurricane Danielle's Hot Towers August 27,2010 Stereoscopic Version

Visualizations by Lori Perkins Released on October 30, 2010
NASA's TRMM spacecraft allows us to look under Hurricane Danielle's clouds to see the rain structure on August 27, 2005 at 06:46 UTC or 2:46 EDT. At this time, Hurricane Danielle was a powerful Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale with sustained winds of 115 knots (132 mph). An area of deep convective towers (shown in red) is prominently visible in the center of the storm. These tall towers are the key to Danielle's intensification. They are associated with the strong thunderstorms responsible for the areas of intense rain. These storms within a storm are releasing vast amounts of heat into the core of Danielle. This heating, known as latent heating, is what is driving the storm's circulation and intensification. This animation shows infrared data from TRMM's Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS) sensor above a thinner swath from TRMM's Precipitation Radar (PR). TRMM reveals that Danielle now has a well-formed eye surrounded by sharply curved rainbands—all signs of mature storm with an intense circulation. TRMM also reveals that there are very powerful thunderstorms in Danielle's eye wall dropping extreme amounts of rain.
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This set contains stereoscopic visualization with separate frame sets for left eye and right eye. The TRMM satellite observes a 16 km convective tower, shown in red, at the center of Hurricane Danielle on August 27, 2010.
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This frame set provides a left and right eye side by side image combined in the same frame for stereoscopic visualization content.
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This set provides anaglyph 3D visualization content. Red/Cyan glasses are required to view it properly.
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Atmosphere in the composition is located behind the Earth, but in front of the stars.
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Star background is from the Tycho-2 star catalogue.

This is an astrometric and photometric reference catalogue of the 2.5 million brightest stars in the sky.

Visualization Credits

Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Victoria Weeks (HTSI): Video Editor
Michael Starobin (HTSI): Producer
Jeff Halverson (JCET UMBC): Scientist
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Science Paper:
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2004/0112towerclouds.html

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Mission:
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission - TRMM

Data Used:
TRMM/PR
08/27/2010
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TRMM/VIRS
08/27/2010
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GOES-12/Imager
08/27/2010
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Hipparcos/Telescope/Tycho 2 Catalogue also referred to as: Tycho Catalogue
Database
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This item is part of these series:
Hurricanes
TRMM 3D Hurricanes

Keywords:
DLESE >> Atmospheric science
SVS >> HDTV
DLESE >> Natural hazards
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Atmospheric Phenomena >> Hurricanes
SVS >> Stereo Display
SVS >> GOES
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0