Tropical Cyclone Inigo

  • Credit

    Image courtesy of Hal Pierce, TRMM Visualizer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Packing sustained winds of 115 mph, Cyclone Inigo was bearing down on Australia's northwestern coast on April 6 and 7, 2003.

This Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) overpass from the morning of April 5 shows the rain structure inside the rainbands and inner core of Tropical Cyclone Inigo. Red and yellow colors indicate the most intense rains. The rainfall data were obtained by the Precipitation Radar aboard NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. The Precipitation Radar bounces radio waves off of clouds to retrieve a reading of the number of large, rain-sized droplets within the clouds. Using these data, scientists can tell how much precipitation is occurring within and beneath a tropical cyclone.

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Metadata

  • Sensor

    TRMM/TRMM

  • Start Date

    2003-04-05

  • Event Start Date

    2003-04-02

  • NH Image ID

    10140

  • NH Event ID

    8620

  • NH Posting Date

    2003-04-08