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Images & Animations
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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 (dimmer version)
Metadata
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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