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Images & Animations
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Credit
Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Heavy rain triggered flash floods over much of northeastern Texas in early June. This TRMM image shows rainfall totals between June 3 and June 10, 2004.
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The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite, launched in November of 1997, uses both passive and active sensors to measure rainfall over the global tropics from space. The TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center provides quantitative rainfall estimates over the global tropics. MPA rainfall totals are shown for June 3 through June 10, 2004, over the south central United States. It shows that most of the eastern half of Texas received more than 3 inches of rain (green areas). Embedded areas of higher totals on the order of 10 inches (red areas) are evident in the panhandle, north and west of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, north of Houston and around Victoria.
TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA.
Metadata
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Sensor
TRMM/TRMM -
Start Date
2004-06-10 -
Event Start Date
2004-06-03 -
NH Image ID
12179 -
NH Event ID
10401 -
NH Posting Date
2004-06-11