GPM Video of Eliakim (VIDEO)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Caption

In this 3-D Flyby animation, GPM data showed the rainfall in developing Tropical Cyclone Eliakim early on March 14. GPM's radar probes of the large convective band wrapping around the eastern side of the forming tropical cyclone indicated that rain was dropping at a rate of over 207 (8.1 inches) per hour GPM's DPR discovered that cloud tops were reaching higher than 16 km (9.9 miles) in the strong convective rain bands east of the forming tropical cyclone's center of circulation.

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NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce

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