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Figure 1
CloudSat image of a horizontal cross-section of tropical clouds and
thunderstorms over east Africa. The red colors are indicative of highly
reflective particles such as water (rain) or ice crystals, which the blue
indicates thinner clouds (such as cirrus). The flat green/blue lines across
the bottom represent the ground signal. The vertical scale on the CloudS
at Cloud Profiling Radar image is approximately 30 kilometers (19 miles).
The brown line below the image indicates the relative elevation of the land
surface. The inset image shows the CloudSat track relative to a Moderate
Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) visible image taken at nearly
the same time.
- Image Credit:
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NASA/JPL/The Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA),
Colorado State University
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