NASA's GPM peers under the clouds of Hurricane Florence

NASA's GPM peers under the clouds of Hurricane Florence

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https://phys.org/news/2018-09-nasa-gpm-peers-clouds-hurricane.html

At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. a 3-D animation was created that showed the estimated heights of storms within hurricane Florence at the time of the GPM satellite pass. Heights are based on data observed by GPM's radar (DPR Ku Band) blended with estimates from geostationary satellite cloud top temperatures. GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA.

At 5 a.m. EDT, the National Hurricane Center noted that Florence was weakening, although still a hurricane. It was centered near latitude 24.1 degrees north and longitude 47.9 degrees west. That's about 1,060 miles (1,705 km) east-northeast of the Northern Leeward Islands and about 1,170 miles (1,885 km) east-southeast of Bermuda.