NASA TRMM Rainfall Image of Rainfall in Mawar (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA TRMM Rainfall Image of Rainfall in Mawar

Caption

This daylight view of the category three typhoon shows that Mawar had a distinct eye on June 4, 2012, before high clouds began to cover it. A rainfall analysis from TRMM's Microwave Image (TMI) and Precipitation Radar (PR) instruments shows a large area of heavy rainfall in the eastern side. TRMM shows that the northwestern quadrant of the typhoon was drier with very little rainfall occurring in that area. TRMM also shows that a very intense line of heavy rainfall was being fed into the southeastern side of the typhoon. The area of moderate to heavy rainfall appears in red, where rain is falling at over 2 inches/50 mm per hour. Light to moderate rainfall was falling at a rate between .78 inches and 1.57 inches per hour (20 to 40 mm).

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NASA/TRMM/SSAI, Hal Pierce

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