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Image of the Week Archive — September 2005
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How Much Rain Do Hurricanes Produce?
September 25, 2005 —
This figure shows that on average hurricane precipitation contributes around 20-50 percent of total precipitation in September in large areas of the North Atlantic, Northeast Pacific and Northwest Pacific Ocean and the coastal areas along the storm track . . . [continued]
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The Hidden Rainbow
September 18, 2005 —
This image shows a picture of clouds taken from a commercial flight from Beijing to New York in August 2005, and some radiative transfer simulations of unpolarized and polarized solar light reflected by cloud fields. Due to the position of the sun, the pi . . . [continued]
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Dust Storms in Southwest Asia
September 11, 2005 —
On the left is a satellite true color image acquired August 7, 2005, from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument onboard the Aqua satellite. It shows extensive dust clouds observed over Iraq, Syria, and Kuwait, and along t . . . [continued]
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Aerosol Activation Using Nenes' Cloud-Particle Size Sorting
September 4, 2005 —
The figure shows computed iso-lines of activated aerosol mass fraction for the sulfate aerosols as a function of pressure and vertical velocity of a cloudy air mass in ascent. The line depicts the pathway from point A (950 hPa and 1 m sec-1 vertical veloc . . . [continued]
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