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Images & Animations
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Credit
Image produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Monsoon rain continues to drench eastern China bringing with it the floods that annually plague the country.
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In November of 1997, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite was launched in an effort to provide better estimates of rainfall over the global Tropics. Since that time, TRMM has been providing unprecedented estimates of rainfall over the Tropics using its array of passive and active sensors. TRMM can cover vast areas of the Tropics where rainfall is poorly measured such as over oceans and land areas where radar coverage is poor or lacking. The TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center provides rainfall estimates over the global Tropics.
MPA rainfall totals for July 12 through July 19, 2004, are shown for East Asia. A swath of 4 to 8 inch rainfall (green area) extends from central China across the Yellow Sea, South Korea, and the Sea of Japan and into central Japan. The highest totals are over eastern China in the Shandong, Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces where between 12 and 20 inches (red area) of rain fell. Localized areas of over a foot of rain appear along parts of the southern and eastern coast of South Korea and over central Japan along the east coast of Honshu.
TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA.
Metadata
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Sensor
TRMM/TRMM -
Start Date
2004-07-19 -
Event Start Date
2004-07-12 -
NH Image ID
12255 -
NH Event ID
10426 -
NH Posting Date
2004-07-20