I'm George Huffman, I'm the Deputy Project Scientist for GPM.
[Music] As you look at this visualization you see a
number of storms, but Kilo is interesting because it's very long-lived. It
started south of Hawaii and then progressed across
the Dateline, at which point it went from being a hurricane to being a typhoon.
Because of the long life that Kilo had, the GPM
Core Observatory had a chance to catch quite a number overpasses
and this was important to give us different looks at different parts of the
lifecycle of the storm. There are things that
happen to tropical storms during their lifecycle
in particular, the so-called eyewall replacement, where
a new eyewall forms outside of the old one and then chokes off the old one
and takes its place. The chance to see that is increased
when we have lots of overpasses.
Kilo is a really great example of why we need satellite
data. We can study these storms, which are out
in the vast expanse of the Pacific, out a long way from any place,
not hurting anybody. [Music]
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