NASA’s 3-D GPM Flyby of Tropical Storm Fred
The Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM mission core satellite passed over Fred when it was developing in the Eastern Atlantic early August 30 and saw “hot towers” in the storm, …
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NASA’s GPM Analyzes Tropical Depression Nine Rainfall
On Sept. 16, NASA/JAXA’s GPM satellite found that the tallest thunderstorms within TD9 were reaching heights of about 14.9 km (9.2 miles) in a feeder band southeast of TD9’s center …
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GPM Flyby of System 91B/01B in Bay of Bengal
This GPM flyby video is of the system that has been responsible for dumping heavy rains in and around Sri Lanka and southern Indian over the past few days. System …
GPM Video of Tropical Depression 6 over the North Atlantic
The GPM core satellite passed over the depression as it was forming on Aug. 16 at 4:31 p.m. EDT and found rainfall south of the center was falling at a …
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GPM 3-D Flyby Animation of Dora
In this 3-D flyby animation from June 28, GPM radar found tallest storm tops within Dora to be reaching altitudes of 5.9 miles (9.5 km). Credit: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce
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GPM Passes Above Gert
The GPM core observatory satellite passed above tropical storm Gert on August 14 at 9:36 a.m. EDT (1336 UTC) and found the most intense rainfall, measuring greater 3.5 inches (90 …
GPM Video of Tropical Storm Harvey
On Aug. 17 at 6:21 p.m. EDT (2221 UTC) GPM found rain falling at almost 5.8 inches (147 mm) per hour and powerful convective storms west of Tropical Storm Harvey’s …
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GPM Video of Harvey’s Rainfall
The Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) Core Observatory captured these images of Hurricane Harvey at 11:45 UTC and 21:25 UTC on the 27th of August nearly two days after the storm …
GPM Examines Hurricane Irma
GPM scans Hurricane Irma on Sept. 5, 2017, and again on Sept. 7, 2017, as the storm approaches Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti at Category 5 strength. GPM …
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GPM Satellite Finds Sheared Hurricane Jose Has Very Tall Storms
On Sept. 13 at 10:35 a.m. EDT the GPM core observatory satellite found that even though Jose was affected by strong northwesterly shear, it contained very powerful convective storms. Intense …