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2012 Hurricane Features
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NASA Satellite Finds an Unusually Tall Storm-cell in Cyclone Evan
The TRMM satellite found an unusually tall towering thunderstorm in Cyclone Evan.
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A Need to Look Again: TRMM Satellite Observations of Tropical Cyclone Evan
The radar on NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite had observed Tropical Cyclone Evan four times as of Sunday, Dec. 16, and two of those overflights merit a closer examination.
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NASA's TRMM Satellite Provides 3-D Analyzation of Super-typhoon Bopha: "Full Catastrophe"
NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite observed the eyewall of Super-typhoon Bopha in 3-D shortly before noon on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012 (Philippines local time).
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Video Reveals 2012 Hurricane Season Rainfall
This animation shows the TRMM satellite's space-based measurements of the total rainfall of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season.
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NASA's HS3 Hurricane Mission Ends for 2012
NASA's 2012 HS3 mission came to an end Nov. 6 when an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft flew a final data-collection mission in the North Pacific Ocean.
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NASA Study May Improve Hurricane Strength Forecasts
Forecasters could soon be better able to predict how intense tropical cyclones like Hurricane Sandy will be by analyzing relative-humidity levels within their large-scale environments, finds a new NASA-led study.
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Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Turns 15
When it rains it pours, goes the saying, and for the last 15 years, tropical rainfall data has poured in, thanks to TRMM.
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NASA's SPoRT Team Tracks Hurricane Sandy
While Hurricane Sandy caused havoc, NASA's "SPoRT Center" was busy developing information to help forecasters better predict the massive storm.
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NOAA's GOES-13 Returns to Full Operations, GOES-14 to Remain Orbital Spare
The GOES-13 spacecraft, which had been taken out of service because of technical trouble in late September, will return to full operations on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012.
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Could a Hurricane Ever Strike Southern California?
California has its share of disasters, like earthquakes, fires and floods. But what are the odds a hurricane could ever strike here? Turns out the concept isn't exactly all wet.
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Notable Tropical Cyclones in Southern California History
Here are a few of the more notable tropical cyclones that have affected Southern California in recorded history
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HS3 Mission Thoroughly Investigates Long-Lived Hurricane Nadine
NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel scientists had a fascinating tropical cyclone to study in long-lived Hurricane Nadine, making 5 flights over the storm.
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NOAA's GOES-13 Weather Satellite Currently Has an Acting Back-Up
NOAA's GOES-13 weather satellite has been temporarily replaced with a back-up GOES satellite as engineers work to fix the satellite's issues.
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Discovering Hot Towers →
Two hours before Hurricane Isaac made landfall a NASA satellite observed Hot Towers in the storm.
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NASA Ames Plays Key Role in the HS3 Global Hawk Mission
The Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) investigation is a five-year mission targeted to enhance our understanding of the processes that underlie hurricane intensity change in the Atlantic Ocean basin.
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NASA Plane Helps Develop New Science Instruments
Over the next few weeks, an ER-2 high altitude research aircraft will take part in the development of two future satellite instruments.
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Cooler Waters Help Diminish Isaac's Punch →
Isaac's track away from the gulf's warmest waters helped to keep it from intensifying rapidly, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita did in 2005.
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NASA's Hurricane Mission Takes Flight
NASA has begun its latest hurricane science field campaign by flying an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft over Hurricane Leslie in the Atlantic Ocean during a day-long flight from California to Virginia
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NASA Compares Hurricanes Isaac and Katrina: 7 Years Apart
With Hurricane Isaac making landfall on the northern Gulf coast almost 7 years to the day that Hurricane Katrina made landfall and in almost the same location in southeastern Louisiana that Katrina did, it is natural to compare the two storms.
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Two Hurricane Global Hawks, Two Sets of Instruments
HS3, will study hurricanes at the end of the summer, flying two high-altitude, long-duration unmanned aircraft with different instruments over the storms.
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Latest El Niño/La Niña Watch Data →
NASA's OSTM/Jason-2 satellite collects sea surface height data of all the world's oceans and NOAA's Climate Prediction Center is on an El Nino Watch. See it develop here.
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Monsoon, Tropical Cyclones Bring Massive Flooding to Manila →
Over the past two weeks, a combination of the southwest monsoon and tropical cyclones passing in the vicinity of the northern Philippines has resulted in massive flooding in and around the Philippine capital.
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Watching a Train of Storminess in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean
This NOAA GOES-13 satellite image from August 9 shows some very active tropics with four areas, like a train of storms, that forecasters are watching.
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NASA Global Hawk Pilots Face Challenges Flying Hurricane Missions
NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel, or HS3, mission will be a complex one for the pilots flying NASA's Global Hawk aircraft from the ground.
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GOES-13 Satellite Sees an Active Tropical Atlantic, Including Ernesto
NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured an image of the tropical Atlantic Ocean on August 3 at 7:45 a.m. EDT with three tropical systems.
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Scott Braun Discusses Upcoming Hurricane Campaign
HS3 is a five-year mission specifically targeted to investigate hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean basin.
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NASA Selects Low Cost, High Science Earth Venture Space System
NASA selected an ocean wind study proposal led by the University of Michigan for small spaceflight investigations of the Earth system.
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Fly Along with NASA Satellites →
Follow NASA satellites and learn how they collect critical data about hurricanes and Earth's atmosphere, land and oceans.
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Happy 4th Anniversary OSTM/Jason-2 →
June 20th, 2012 marks 4 years since the start of the Ocean Surface Topography Mission on the Jason-2 satellite (Jason-2).
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NASA Sending Unmanned Aircraft Over Hurricanes
Beginning this summer, NASA will send "severe storm sentinels" into stormy skies to gather information about hurricane formation and intensity changes.
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NASA Science Grips Two Brothers
Two principal researchers on several airborne sensors had more in common than conducting atmospheric research. Gerry and Andy Heymsfield are brothers.
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Tropical Cyclone Season Gets Started in the Northern Hemisphere →
There are three active tropical systems in the Northern Hemisphere spread across three different ocean basins.
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NASA's Hurricane Twitter Exceeds 200,000 Followers
NASA's Hurricane Twitter, which posts the web site's updates, exceeded 200,000 followers recently - a landmark that just a few NASA Twitter accounts have reached.
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Global Sea Surface Currents and Temperature →
This visualization shows sea surface current flows. The flows are colored by corresponding sea surface temperature data.
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NOAA Announces Modification to Hurricane Scale
The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is the standard used to measure hurricane intensity, and this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is making a modification of the scale.
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Shrinking Ice, Rising Seas →
Sea level rise is an indicator that our planet is warming. When ice on land, such as mountain glaciers or the ice sheets of Greenland or Antarctica, melts, that water contributes to sea level rise.
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NASA's TRMM Satellite Measures Flooding Rains from Australia Monsoon
A monsoon trough continues to drench northeastern Australia and NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite measured and calculated the rainfall in the region.
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GOES-15 Active; GOES-11 Deactivated After 12 Years
For 12 years, GOES-11 tracked weather and severe storms that affected the U.S. West Coast, Hawaii and the Pacific region.