Cloud Cover w/ Fires

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

TRMM Biomass Burning: Smoke Inhibits Rainfall Cloud Cover with Fires March 1, 1998

Cloud Cover with Fires March 1, 1998 Smoke from forest fires has, for the first time, been proven to inhibit rainfall, according to an extensive analysis of data taken from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) spacecraft.

Cloud cover and fires from biomass burning for March 1, 1998 indicated on a topographic map of northern Borneo

Metadata

  • Sensor

    TRMM/PR, TRMM/VIRS, TRMM/TMI

  • Animation ID

    748

  • Video ID

    SVS1999-0025

  • Start Timecode

    1:01:34:19

  • End Timecode

    1:01:46:00

  • Animator

    Greg Shirah

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    1999/09/01

  • Scientist

    Daniel Rosenfeld (Hebrew University)

  • Citation

    D. Rosenfeld, TRMM observed first direct evidence of smoke from forest fires inhibiting rainfall, Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 1999, 3105-3108

  • Keywords

    Fires, Clouds

  • DLESE Subject

    Environmental science, Atmospheric science, Natural hazards

  • Data Date

    1998/03/01

  • Story URL

    http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/news-release/releases/1999/99-101.txt

  • Animation Type

    Stills