Under the Hood, Hurricane Isabel

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Hurricane Isabel: Under the Hood (PR and AMSU only)

This visualization is an inset from animation ID 2996. It shows how the distribution of Hurricane Isabel's rainfall (circular sturctures below) and heat inside the storm (oblong structures above) fluctuated dramatically as the storm changed intensities. The warm core of the hurricane was the engine that drove the storm, allowing it to draw up energy from the ocean, gathering strength and size.

Hurricane Isabel's structure as a category 5

Metadata

  • Sensor

    TRMM/PR, GOES/HIRS, GOES/AMSU

  • Animation ID

    2997

  • Video ID

    NONE

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    Greg Shirah, Lori Perkins, Marte Newcombe, Alex Kekesi

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2004/09/01

  • Scientist

    Jeff Halverson (NASA/GSFC)

  • Keywords

    hurricane

  • Data Date

    GOES IR: 2003/09/07-2003/09/19, GOES AMSU: 2003/09/07-2003/09/19, TRMM/PR: 2004/09/08, 2004/09/10, 2004/09/12, 2004/09/14-16

  • Animation Type

    Regular

  • Other Credits

    AMSU data from Chris Velden (University of Wisconsin)