Movie of Typhoons Violet and Tom

Typhoons Violet and Tom (1.3Mbytes) QuickTime

This animation shows ocean surface wind speeds and directions in the Pacific ocean near Japan as measured by the NSCAT scatterometer on September 20, 1996. Here, wind speed is depicted by the color of the ocean background: blue for low winds, red for moderate winds, and yellow for high winds. The movement of the white arrows shows the direction of the wind at about 02:00 GMT. The underlying wind field was contructed from four orbits worth of NSCAT data by using a successive correction interpolation scheme. Typoon Tom is in the upper right hand corner. Typhoon Violet is just South of Japan. Typhoon Violet eventually moved up and struck the East Coast of Japan causing damage and deaths.