TRMM Satellite 3-D Volume of Rainfall Inside Irene's Clouds (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

TRMM Satellite 3-D Volume of Rainfall Inside Irene's Clouds

Caption

On Saturday afternoon Aug. 27, NASA's TRMM satellite flew over Hurricane Irene. This image shows the 3D volume of rainfall inside Irene's clouds after recently making landfall in North Carolina. The large region of rainfall near the eye (on the left of the image) was over N.C. Several rain bands existed hundreds of kilometers (100 to 200 miles) to the east over the Atlantic Ocean, as seen on the right side of the image.

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NASA, Owen Kelley

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