TRMM Biomass Burning: Smoke Inhibits Rainfall Cloud Cover With Fires March 1, 1998
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.
Cloud cover and fires from biomass burning for March 1, 1998 indicated on a topographic map of northern Borneo
Cloud cover and fires from biomass burning for March 1, 1998 indicated on a topographic map of northern Borneo (dimmer version)
Cloud cover and fires from biomass burning for March 1, 1998 indicated on a topographic map of northern Borneo
Slate indicating fire color for biomass burning as red. Video slate image reads, "TRMM Biomass Burning
Cloud-cover with Fires
March 1, 1998".
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Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientist
- Daniel Rosenfeld (Hebrew University)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, September 1, 1999.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:58 PM EDT.
Missions
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D. Rosenfeld, TRMM observed first direct evidence of smoke from forest fires inhibiting rainfall, Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 1999, 3105-3108
Datasets used in this visualization
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[TRMM: PR]
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[TRMM: TMI]
ID: 110 -
[TRMM: VIRS]
ID: 111
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