Suomi NPP Image Collage of Irma (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Suomi NPP Image Collage of Irma

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NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite flew over Irma at 1:54 a.m. AST Sept. 5, 2017, when it was still a Category 4 hurricane., Night-time images showed a well-defined eye with convection most of the way around it. Both the infrared and Day-Night Band both show tropospheric gravity waves. Think of them the waves generated if you dropped a rock into a pond, but in this case it is convection punching upward.

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NASA/NOAA/UWM/CIMSS/William Straka III

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