Powerful Typhoon Phanfone (15 Aug 2002)

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Powerful typhoon Phanfone, August 15,2002

Powerful typhoon Phanfone, packing winds of up to 78 miles per hour, was on course to hit Japan's outlying Pacific islands. The storm disupted air and ferry services and the associated weater system brought heavy rains to central Japan.

This animation zooms down to Typhoon Phanfone just south of Japan. The structure of the storm is revealed where yellow represents 0.5 inches of rain or more, green shows 1.0 inches of rain and red shows 2.0 inches or more.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    TRMM/TMI, TRMM/PR, IMAGE/VIS

  • Animation ID

    2507

  • Video ID

    SVS2002-0024

  • Start Timecode

    01:04:49:00

  • End Timecode

    01:06:27:29

  • Animator

    Lori Perkins

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2002/08/16

  • Scientist

    Jeff Halverson (NASA/GSFC)

  • Keywords

    Typhoons, Hurricane, GCMD--Location--Japan, Tokyo

  • DLESE Subject

    Natural hazards, Atmospheric science

  • Data Date

    2002/08/15

  • Animation Type

    Regular