Rain Fueling Hurricane Ivan (15 Sep 2004)

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

TRMM Looks at the Rain Fueling Hurricane Ivan on September 15, 2004

NASA's TRMM spacecraft is used by meteorologists to understand Hurricane Ivan. TRMM snapped this view of Hurricane Ivan on September 15, 2004 just before the storm strikes land. The cloud cover is taken by TRMM's Visible and Infrared Scanner (VIRS). The rain structure is taken by TRMM's Precipitation Radar (PR). It looks underneath of the storm's clouds to reveal the underlying rain structure. Blue represents areas with at least 0.25 inches of rain per hour. Green shows at least 0.5 inches of rain per hour. Yellow is at least 1.0 inches of rain and Red is at least 2.0 inches of rain per hour. High vertical bands on the outside of the storm indicated that Hurricane Ivan was very likely to spawn tornados in Florida and Georgia.

Hurricane Ivan as seen by TRMM PR on September 15, 2004. It looks underneath of the storm's clouds to reveal the underlying rain structure. Blue represents areas with at least 0.25 inches of rain per hour. Green shows at least 0.5 inches of rain per hour. Yellow is at least 1.0 inches of rain and Red is at least 2.0 inches of rain per hour. High vertical bands on the outside of the storm indicated that Hurricane Ivan was very likely to spawn tornados in Florida and Georgia.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    TRMM/PR, TRMM/VIRS, TRMM/TMI

  • Animation ID

    3009

  • Video ID

    none

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    Lori Perkins, Greg Shirah

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2004/09/15

  • Scientist

    Jeff Halverson (NASA/GSFC)

  • Keywords

    Hurricane, New Orleans, Engine, Rain Structure, Mobile, Louisiana, Florida, Alabama

  • DLESE Subject

    National hazards, atmospheric science

  • Data Date

    2004/09/15

  • Animation Type

    Regular