Hot Towers Intensify Hurricanes : Image of the Day (1998)
1998 · Short film · 4 min
Synopsis
June 1 marks the beginning of hurricane season. Every year, meteorologists strive to predict hurricane behavior to reduce risk to lives and property while also minimizing the costs associated with storm preparations and evacuations. Perfect predictions of hurricane behavior are still a thing of the future, but NASA scientists are combining observations from field campaigns and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ (TRMM) satellite with supercomputing modeling power to shed…
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