Under the Hood, Hurricane Isabel
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Hurricane Isabel: Under the Hood (PR and AMSU only)
This visualization is an inset from animation ID 2996. It shows how the distribution of Hurricane Isabel's rainfall (circular sturctures below) and heat inside the storm (oblong structures above) fluctuated dramatically as the storm changed intensities. The warm core of the hurricane was the engine that drove the storm, allowing it to draw up energy from the ocean, gathering strength and size.
Hurricane Isabel's structure as a category 5