Earth  ID: 3146

Rainfall Accumulation from Hurricane Isabel (WMS)

Visualizations by Jeff de La Beaujardiere Released on April 19, 2005
Hurricane Isabel generated large amounts of rain over the Atlantic ocean as it approached East coast of the United States in September 2003. In fact, unlike many hurricanes, most of the Isabel's rainfall did not occur over land; flooding on land was caused mainly by storm surge. This animation shows accumulation of rainfall from the hurricane—each frame shows the total amount of rain since the start of the measurement period. Rain from other sources has been masked out, so the hurricane track is clearly visible as the storm moves across the Atlantic.
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Animation of Hurricane Isabel rainfall accumulation from September 6 through 19, 2003. Frames were taken every 3 hours starting at 00:00UT on 2003-09-06. Each pixel covers 0.25deg of longitude and latitude; the total area shown is 80x40 degrees.

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Color scale for accumulated rainfall map, ranging from deep blue (less than 5cm) up to deep red (30cm or more).

Visualization Credits

Jeff de La Beaujardiere (NASA): Lead Animator
Robert Adler (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission - TRMM

Data Used:
TRMM/TMI/Rainfall Accumulation
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This item is part of these series:
TRMM Rainmaps
WMS

Keywords:
DLESE >> Atmospheric science
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Atmospheric Phenomena >> Hurricanes
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Precipitation >> Rain
GCMD >> Location >> Atlantic Ocean
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