A New Multi-dimensional View of a Hurricane

Released Tuesday, July 25, 2017

ID: 12635

- Produced by:
- Ryan Fitzgibbons
- Visualizations by:
- Alex Kekesi
- Scientific consulting by:
- George Huffman
- Written by:
- Ryan Fitzgibbons
- and George Huffman
- Narration:
- Ryan Fitzgibbons
- Edited by:
- Ryan Fitzgibbons

Music: "Buoys," Donn Wilkerson, Killer Tracks; "Late Night Drive," Donn Wilkerson, Killer Tracks.

NASA researchers now can use a combination of satellite observations to re-create multi-dimensional pictures of hurricanes and other major storms in order to study complex atmospheric interactions. In this video, they applied those techniques to Hurricane Matthew. When it occurred in the fall of 2016, Matthew was the first Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in almost ten years. Its torrential rains and winds caused significant damage and loss of life as it coursed through the Caribbean and up along the southern U.S. coast.

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Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Producer
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (USRA)
Visualizers
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
Scientists
- George Huffman (NASA/GSFC)
- Dalia B Kirschbaum (NASA/GSFC)
Writers
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (USRA)
- George Huffman (NASA/GSFC)
Narrator
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (USRA)
Editor
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (USRA)
Technical support
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)