Earth  ID: 3258

Hurricane Rita from TRMM: September 20, 2005

Visualizations by Lori Perkins Released on September 21, 2005
NASA's TRMM spacecraft is used to understand Hurricane Rita. TRMM observed this view of Hurricane Rita just before the storm made landfall on September 20, 2005. The cloud cover is taken by TRMM's Visible and Infrared Scanner(VIRS) and the GOES spacecraft. The rain structure is taken by TRMM's Tropical Microwave Imager (TMI). It looks underneath of the storm's clouds to reveal the underlying rain structure. Blue represents areas with at least 0.25 inches of rain per hour. Green shows at least 0.5 inches of rain per hour. Yellow is at least 1.0 inches of rain and red is at least 2.0 inches of rain per hour.
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Hurricane Rita on September 20, 2005. The colored rainbands beneath the clouds depict the rain that fuels the storm. Blue represents areas where 0.5 inches of rain per hour. Green represents 1.0 inches per hour.

Visualization Credits

Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Jeff Halverson (JCET UMBC): 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:
GOES
2005/09/20
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TRMM/PR
2005/09/20
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TRMM/TMI
2005/09/20
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TRMM/VIRS
2005/09/20
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This item is part of these series:
Hurricanes
TRMM 3D Hurricanes
Hurricane Rita

Keywords:
DLESE >> Atmospheric science
DLESE >> Natural hazards
SVS >> Tropical Storm Cindy
SVS >> Tropical Storm Emily
SVS >> GOES
NASA Science >> Earth