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Image of Hurricane Frances Specific Hurricanes in History
From Alberto to Zeta, dozens of hurricanes with multiple image and story links.
+ Hurricanes in History
+ List of all 2006 storms

Thumbnail of a hurricane's colding engine.Specific Hurricane Topics
Hurricanes have many components including lightning, towers of heat, and even ice particles!
+ Hurricane Topics

Icon with hurricane warning flags displayed on it. Hurricane Education Links
NASA has developed several educational tools -- posters, visualizations, graphics, classroom activities on hurricanes.
+ Hurricane Educational Links

Thumbnail of the hot towers inside of Hurricane Frances.Technology Used to Understand Hurricanes (alphabetical by name of mission, satellite, or instrument): Satellites and their instruments help scientists uncover the secrets of how hurricanes are formed, how they travel, how they strengthen, and ultimately, how they impact us all. + Hurricane Hunting Technology

Thumbnail of the Hurricane Fact SheetHurricane Fact Sheet

NASA is the world’s leader in developing state-of-the-art remote sensors that study all aspects of weather and climate. NASA uses this technology to study hurricanes and typhoons around the world and to help forecasters make better predictions on the storm’s behavior. + Hurricane Fact Sheet



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+ Link to NOAA's National Hurricane Center
+ Hurricane Katrina Images at NOAA - can zoom in on areas around the entire affected area
+ NOAA Hurricane Hunter's web site
+ NOAA Hurricane Preparedness web site
+ NOAA Hurricane Research Division
+ Hurricane Storm Names
+ NOAA Satellite Service Division (SSD)
+ NOAA Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch (TAFB)
+ The Tropical Cloud Systems and Processes (TCSP) mission
+ The Fourth Convection and Moisture Experiment (CAMEX-4)
+ MAP '05 -- Modeling, Analysis and Predication Program
+ Satellite Imagery for Project Hurricane
+ Earth Observatory Severe Storms web page
+ Worldbook hurricane entry
+ Federal Emergency Management Agency
+ USGS Storm Flood Tracking
+ USGS Coastal Hazards and Hurricanes
+ Univ. WI-Madison Tropical Cyclones Webpage

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Hurricane Katrina images

Thumbnail to introduce a GOES video about the progression of Katrina.

Icon to take users to the Birth of a Hurricane video. The video is close captioned.

Icon for long movie entitled Looking at Hurricanes. This movie is 8 minutes long to view and is close captioned.

Icon for the Why and How of Hurricane Hunting paper

+ Behold a Whirlwind Came: The Science of Tracking Hurricanes

+ Hurricane Images in the Visible Earth image collection



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Hurricanes derive their energy from water vapor temperature changes and can produce up to 20 billion tons of rain water per day


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