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Images & Animations
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Credit
Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Several days of heavy rains led to widespread flooding on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines.
- <LI>Rain Totals (122 KB)
The TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center monitors rainfall over the global tropics. This image shows contours of the MPA rainfall totals every 50 millimeters overlaid on top of a Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image, taken on February 17, 2004, at 2:05 UTC by the Terra satellite. It shows the Agusan river (marked by the arrows) swollen by the heavy rains that fell days earlier over the river basin and the higher terrain to the east.
A second TRMM image, provided above, shows MPA rainfall totals for February 10-17, 2004. The highest totals are shown to be right over the Diuata Mountains over the northeast part of the island where as much as 16 inches of rain (darkest reds) are estimated to have fallen. Areas that received on the order of 10 inches of rainfall (red areas) cover most of northeastern Mindanao and extend well out into the Philippine Sea. Amounts drop off sharply towards the western half of the island but are still on the order of 5 inches over the central part of Mindanao.
TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA.
Metadata
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Sensor
TRMM/TRMM -
Start Date
2004-02-17 -
Event Start Date
2004-02-11 -
NH Image ID
11948 -
NH Event ID
10273 -
NH Posting Date
2004-02-19