Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Typhoon Maemi, September 11, 2003
This animation shows TRMM's view of Typhoon Maemi.Typhoon Maemi located approximately 400 miles south-southest of Okinawa, Japan. At the time this image was taken, Maemi was classified as a Category 5 storm under the Saffir-Simpson scale because it was packing sustained winds of 172 mph with gusts to 200 mph. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) has provided some remarkable images of Super Typhoon Maemi. During the storm's most intense phase, TRMM was able to capture the evolution of Maemi's eyewall structure as it was starting to undergo a process known as 'eyewall replacement,' whereby two concentric eyewalls are present before the outer eyewall collapses down to replace the original inner eyewall. This process can occur in very intense typhoons and hurricanes.
This animation looks at the rain structure of Typhoon Maemi on September 11, 2003. The animation peels away the cloud layer and reveals the storm's rain structure. The yellow isosurface represents areas where at least 0.5 inches of rain fell per hour. The green isosurface show 1.0 inches of rain per hour and red displays where more than 2 inches of rain fell per hour.
Metadata
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Sensor
IMAGE/VIS, TRMM/PR, TRMM/TMI -
Animation ID
2799 -
Video ID
SVS2003-0006 -
Start Timecode
01:17:05:00 -
End Timecode
01:20:05:02 -
Animator
Lori Perkins, Marte Newcombe -
Studio
SVS -
Visualization Date
2003/09/11 -
Scientist
Jeff Halverson (NASA/GSFC) -
Keywords
Hurricane, Korea, Kadena Air Base -
DLESE Subject
Natural hazards, Atmospheric science -
Data Date
2003/09/11 -
Animation Type
Regular
