TRMM Biomass Burning: Smoke Inhibits Rainfall Cloud Cover With Fires March 1, 1998
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- Visualizations by:
- Greg Shirah
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Smoke from forest fires has, for the first time, been proven to inhibit rainfall, according to an extensive analysis of data taken from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) spacecraft.
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animator
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
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Scientist
- Daniel Rosenfeld (Hebrew University)
Papers
This visualization is based on the following papers:- D. Rosenfeld, TRMM observed first direct evidence of smoke from forest fires inhibiting rainfall, Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 1999, 3105-3108
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TRMM (Collected with the PR sensor)
TRMM (Collected with the TMI sensor)
TRMM (Collected with the VIRS sensor)
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