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Images & Animations
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Credit
Image produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC)
The northern monsoon brought heavy rains and floods to Eastern Australia.
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The TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center monitors rainfall over the global tropics. MPA rainfall totals for the period January 9-20, 2004, reveal that coastal areas of the Northern Territory and Queensland along the Gulf of Carpentaria may have received well over a foot of rain (darker red areas). A widespread area of 5-inch totals (green areas) with locally heavier amounts of up to 10 inches (yellow and orange areas) extends southeastward across most of Queensland to the coast of New South Wales. The bulk of the heaviest rainfall totals along the northern coast fell between the 12th and 15th of January in association with the monsoon low, which eventually tracked southeastward and off the coast.
TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA.
Metadata
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Sensor
TRMM/TRMM -
Start Date
2004-01-20 -
Event Start Date
2004-01-17 -
NH Image ID
11910 -
NH Event ID
10247 -
NH Posting Date
2004-01-21