Hurricane Floyd: September 13, 1999
TRMM's view of Hurricane Floyd in 1999. Isosurfaces are: Yellow=0.5 inches/hour, Green=1.0 inches/hour, Red=2.0 inches/hour on rainfall rates. The vertical scale is exaggerated.
This movie transitions from a GOES view of Hurricane Floyd to precipitation data from TRMM.
Approaching the TRMM swath. Cloud heights are determined from IR data.
The scan plane begins to peel-away the clouds, revealing the precipitation data.
The scan plane passes over the eye of the storm.
The main body of the storm is fully revealed to the precipitation radar.
Looking north across the hurricane.
Looking south across the hurricane.
Viewing the precipitation data along the TRMM swath.
Slate image from video tape reads, 'Hurricane Floyd: September 13, 1999; TRMM's view of Hurricane Floyd in 1999. Isosurfaces are: Yellow=0.5 inches/hour, green=1.0 inches/hour, red=2.0 inches/hour on rainfall rates. The vertical scale is exaggerated.'
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientist
- Robert Adler (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, June 27, 2002.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.
Missions
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This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
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[GOES-8]
ID: 29 -
[TRMM: PR]
ID: 109 -
[TRMM: TMI]
ID: 110 -
[TRMM: VIRS]
ID: 111
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