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Floods in the Southern and M …
Title Floods in the Southern and Midwestern United States
Description River systems throughout northern Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana were swollen with winter rain when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured the top image on January 21, 2007. The National Weather Service had issued warnings of mild flooding on many of the rivers shown in this image, but by January 22, the high water had begun to subside. The floods followed a powerful winter storm [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17530 ] that dumped heavy rain on the South, and ice and snow on the Midwest. The lower image shows Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana on January 10, before the storm struck. Like the top image, the lower image was made with both infrared and visible light to increase the contrast between water and land. In this type of image, water is black or dark blue, while plant-covered land is bright green and bare or lightly vegetated ground is tan. The city of Shreveport, Louisiana, is the grey area on the banks of the Red River. Clouds are pale blue and white. True-color, photo-like images are also available from the MODIS Rapid Response Team. [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?USA7 ] NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC.
Floods in the Southern and M …
Title Floods in the Southern and Midwestern United States
Description River systems throughout northern Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana were swollen with winter rain when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured the top image on January 21, 2007. The National Weather Service had issued warnings of mild flooding on many of the rivers shown in this image, but by January 22, the high water had begun to subside. The floods followed a powerful winter storm [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17530 ] that dumped heavy rain on the South, and ice and snow on the Midwest. The lower image shows Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana on January 10, before the storm struck. Like the top image, the lower image was made with both infrared and visible light to increase the contrast between water and land. In this type of image, water is black or dark blue, while plant-covered land is bright green and bare or lightly vegetated ground is tan. The city of Shreveport, Louisiana, is the grey area on the banks of the Red River. Clouds are pale blue and white. True-color, photo-like images are also available from the MODIS Rapid Response Team. [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?USA7 ] NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC.
Growing-Season Fires in Cent …
Title Growing-Season Fires in Central United States
Description Agricultural burning in preparation for the growing season was underway in the central United States at the time of this image, captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite on March 31, 2004. Across the dun-colored witner landscape, spring green is beginning to spread across the south-central parts of the country, including (top left to bottom) Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, and (top right to bottom) Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Fires have been marked with red dots in the image. The smokier fires in Arkansas may be prescribed burns on state or federal lands that are set in the spring to decrease built-up underbrush and other vegetation that could contribute to more severe wildfires later in the season. Though not necessarily hazardous, large-scale burning can have an impact on weather, climate, human health, and natural resources. The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Growing-Season Fires in Cent …
Title Growing-Season Fires in Central United States
Description Agricultural burning continues across the Central Plains of the United States on April 4, 2004. The fires, detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite have been marked with red dots in this image. The fires are concentrated in Kansas and Oklahoma (top left and bottom left), with additional fires in Missouri and Arkansas (top right and bottom right). The widespread nature of the fires and their location (generally located away from remaining natural vegetation, which appears deeper green) suggests that these fires are being set intentionally for agricultural purposes. Though not necessarily hazardous, such large-scale burning can have an impact on weather, climate, human health, and natural resources. The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions. Two large rivers flow from west to east across the scene. The Missouri River runs out of Kansas into Missouri through Kansas City, which sits right on the border of the two states. To the south, the Arkansas River flows out of Oklahoma into Arkansas where it weaves between the Boston Mountains, which appear reddish brown, and the Ouachita Mountains, whose ridges are deep brown and punctuated by green valleys. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Dust Storm in Texas
Title Dust Storm in Texas
Description The same hot, dry, windy conditions that allowed grassfires [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13301 ] to rage throughout parts of Oklahoma and Texas at the end of 2005 kicked up dust at the beginning of the new year. On January 1, 2006, a dust storm approximately 500 kilometers (300 miles) across swept through northern Texas and into Oklahoma. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] flying onboard the Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured this image on January 1, 2006. Swirling in a counter-clockwise direction toward the northeast, the dust storm appears in a light shade of tan, partially obscuring the view of the darker ground surface. The storm appears to start near the Texas-New Mexico border. Smoke from wildfires mixes with the dust in places. The "hot spots" where these fires rage on the ground appear in red, and some of the fires emit substantial plumes of smoke, especially two fires immediately south of the dust storm. Another fire, almost hidden by clouds, burns north of the dust storm. The hot, dry, windy conditions that prevailed in this part of North America in late 2005 set the stage for a dust storm in a couple different ways. Winds stir up particles on the ground and eventually suspend them in the air. Once aloft, dust particles can remain airborne even after wind speeds drop. Meanwhile, a dearth of rain can decrease vegetation cover, leading to extreme daytime heating of the ground. This heat causes an unstable boundary layer, the lowest 1 to 2 kilometers (0.6 to 1.2 miles) of atmosphere. An unstable boundary layer often encourages air to rise, carrying dust even higher into the air. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, significant portions of Texas faced drought conditions in late December 2005, including areas of extreme drought along the border with Mexico, and exceptional drought along the border with Oklahoma and Arkansas. Under these conditions, fires and dust storms could continue to threaten the region. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response team.
Hurricane Rita
Title Hurricane Rita
Description Hurricane Rita was slowly winding down as it approached the Louisiana and Texas shoreline on September 23, 2005. At 2:05 p.m. U.S. Central time, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured this image, Rita was a dangerous Category 3 storm, down from the near-record-breaking Category 5 hurricane it was on September 21. At its core, Rita had sustained winds of 205 kilometers per hour (125 miles per hour) and stronger gusts. A mere two days earlier, the storm packed wind speeds of 275 kilometers per hour (170 miles per hour), making it the fourth most powerful storm ever measured. In this image, the outer bands of the storm already extend well over Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas, affecting many regions devastated by Hurricane Katrina on August 29. Over the Gulf of Mexico, Rita's well-defined eye has clouded over. This closed or "dirty" eye shape is typical of a storm that has reached its peak strength and is slackening. Though the center of the storm is forecast to come ashore in Texas near the Louisiana border, Rita will likely have a far-reaching effect. The massive storm has hurricane-strength winds that reach 140 kilometers (85 miles) from the eye, with weaker tropical-storm-strength winds that extend as far as 335 kilometers (205 miles) from the storm's center. Rita will also bring heavy rain—up to 20 inches in some locations, the National Hurricane Center [ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ ] warns—high tides, and battering waves. For more images of Hurricane Rita, please visit the Natural Hazards [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13158 ] section of the Earth Observatory. For more information about Rita, see the National Hurricane Center [ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ ]. The large image provided above has a resolution of 500 meters per pixel. The image is available in additional resolutions [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2005266-0923/Rita.A2005266.1910 ], including MODIS' maximum resolution of 250 meters per pixel, from the MODIS Rapid Response Team. NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC
Fires Across Southern United …
Title Fires Across Southern United States
Description This image of fires in the southern United States was captured on March 10, 2004, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite. Actively burning fires have been marked with red dots in Oklahoma (top left), Texas (bottom left), Arkansas (top center), Louisiana (bottom center), and (left to right across the rest of the image) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. Most of us don?t think of late winter as fire season in the United States, but according to the Southern Coordination Center for the National Interagency Fire Center, just over 993,000 acres had been affected by fire in the Southern region as of March 23, 2004: 11,936 human-caused fires affected 130,385 acres, 18 lightning-caused fire affected 225 acres, and 1,084 prescribed fires (those set by land management agencies for natural resource management purposes) affected 862,772 acres. The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-GSFC
Fires Across the Southern U. …
Title Fires Across the Southern U.S.
Description A mixture of prescribed fires and wildfires was burning throughout the southern United States on January 14, 2003. This image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite, and shows active fire detection by MODIS marked with red dots. States with fires include (bottom left to right) Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South and North Carolina, with Florida in the bottom right corner. According to the January 15 morning report from the Southern Fire Coordination Center of the National Interagency Fire Center, 17 prescribed burns were underway on more than 11,500 acres in Arkansas (visible, but cloud-covered in the high-resolution image), Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, and South Carolina. Dozens of additional small fires were reported on state lands throughout the south as well. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
Fires Across the United Stat …
Title Fires Across the United States
Description This expansive image of the United States was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometers (MODIS) on NASA?s Terra and Aqua satellites. The left hand portion of the image comes from Aqua MODIS observations captured on the afternoon of October 22, 2003, while the right hand part of the image is from Terra MODIS observations captured a few hours earlier. Several geographic regions are experiencing fires, which were detected by the sensors and are marked with red dots. At upper left, fires are still burning across the Northern Rockies, the highest concentration is in Idaho, with additional fires in Montana to its east, and southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon, to the west. In the Southwest, fires are burning in southern California near Los Angeles (gray patch right at edge of image to the north of the Baja Peninsula), as well as in the arc of mountains running through Arizona. At top center, fires are scattered across the northern Great Plains, from North Dakota and across the United States? border into Canada. Far to the south, dozens more fires are burning in the Mississippi River Valley in Mississippi (against right edge), Louisiana (to the west) and Arkansas (north of Louisiana). The high-resolution image provided above is 2 kilometers per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at MODIS? maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
Fires Across the United Stat …
Title Fires Across the United States
Description This expansive image of the United States was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometers (MODIS) on NASA?s Terra and Aqua satellites. The left hand portion of the image comes from Aqua MODIS observations captured on the afternoon of October 22, 2003, while the right hand part of the image is from Terra MODIS observations captured a few hours earlier. Several geographic regions are experiencing fires, which were detected by the sensors and are marked with red dots. At upper left, fires are still burning across the Northern Rockies, the highest concentration is in Idaho, with additional fires in Montana to its east, and southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon, to the west. In the Southwest, fires are burning in southern California near Los Angeles (gray patch right at edge of image to the north of the Baja Peninsula), as well as in the arc of mountains running through Arizona. At top center, fires are scattered across the northern Great Plains, from North Dakota and across the United States? border into Canada. Far to the south, dozens more fires are burning in the Mississippi River Valley in Mississippi (against right edge), Louisiana (to the west) and Arkansas (north of Louisiana). The high-resolution image provided above is 2 kilometers per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at MODIS? maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
Fires in Arkansas' Boston Mo …
Title Fires in Arkansas' Boston Mountains
Description On the afternoon of April 13, 2006, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite detected two smoky fires burning in northwestern Arkansas' Boston Mountains when the sensor passed over head and collected this image. The actively burning part of the fire detected by MODIS is outlined in red. Both fires have large plumes of smoke drifting northward. The Arkansas River runs through the image's bottom left corner, while at top, Beaver Lake sits just south of the Missouri state line. The topography of the area is highlighted by the still-dormant vegetation of the higher elevations of the mountains, which appears brown. The high-resolution image provided above has a spatial resolution of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides daily images of this area at additional resolutions. [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?AERONET_CART_SITE ] NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center
Fires in Mississippi Valley
Title Fires in Mississippi Valley
Description What they lack in drama, the fires in the Southeast U.S. make up for in numbers each year. There are more fires in the Mississippi Valley, the Plains and the Southeast every year than there are out West, but they are generally much smaller and do not gain the attention of the national news media. This image captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite on September 16, 2003, shows dozens of actively burning fires (red dots) in the states east and west of the Mississippi River Plain, which cuts vertically through the image. States shown include (bottom row, left to right) Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. North of Louisiana, numerous fires are burning in Arkansas. Left and right of Arkansas are Oklahoma and Tennessee, respectively. Across the top (left to right) are Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky. The vegetation that is spread over the region is showing little sign of the approaching autumn equinox. The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at MODIS' maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
Snowstorm Rolls Across the U …
Title Snowstorm Rolls Across the U.S.
Description A severe winter storm rolled eastward across the central United States between December 23 and 25, 2002, bringing a white Christmas to millions of people in a wide swath stretching from the southern Great Plains region all the way to New England. Many areas in the northeast reported blizzard conditions during the storm, in which snow accumulated on the ground at a rate of up to 5 inches (12 cm) per hour. As much as 3 feet (1 meter) of snow fell in some places over the 48-hour span. Unfortunately, the storm resulted in at least 19 deaths. There have been a number of car accidents reported in many states and tens of thousands of people living in the northeast were left without power. This true-color image was acquired on Dec. 25, 2002, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying aboard NASA?s Aqua satellite. The wide white swath running from west to east through the scene shows the southern Great Plains region blanketed by snow ? from the Texas panhandle across northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas into Missouri and northwestern Arkansas. Brownish-green areas are bare land surface. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] at NASA GSFC
Fires in Southern United Sta …
Title Fires in Southern United States
Description The combination of parched vegetation and gusty winds that caused dozens of devastating fires in New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma in the first week of 2006 has brought a similar fate to a wider area of the southern United States in the second week of January. Among the newly affected states is Arkansas. This image shows the southeast corner of the state, near the border with Louisiana. Two large fires were detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite when it collected this image on January 8, 2006. The image has been enhanced by the inclusion of shortwave and near-infrared energy that MODIS detected. Vegetation appears bright green, bare or thinly vegetated ground is tan, water is dark blue, and the actively burning areas of the fire appear bright pink (outlined in red). The image is shown at MODIS' maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?USA7 ] of the area in a variety of formats. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center
Fires in Southern United Sta …
Title Fires in Southern United States
Description Drought, high temperatures, and strong winds combined with holiday fireworks, trash fires, and careless cigarettes to create a disaster in parts of Texas and Oklahoma in late December 2005. According to the Associated Press, more than 70 fires blazed throughout north and central Texas and Oklahoma, many of them set by people ignoring local fire bans. By December 29, nearly 20,000 acres had burned in the region, more than 100 homes had been lost, and several people had died from fire-related injuries. This image shows parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, as imaged by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] flying onboard the Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite. The sensor took this image on December 28, 2005, the same day that the fires caused the most damage. Cloud cover obscures part of the region, but hot spots, indicated in red, appear throughout the area, many of them sending up their own plumes of smoke. North and central Texas, where most of the fires occurred, saw its fifth driest year on record in 2005. In the Dallas-Forth Worth area, annual rainfall was about 41 centimeters (16 inches) below normal. In Oklahoma, the annual rainfall was about 30 centimeters (12 inches) below normal. Shortly before the grass fires spread throughout the region, local temperatures topped 27 degrees Celsius (80 degrees Fahrenheit) and worsened the already-dry conditions. The wind and heat abated somewhat after the fires started, but the National Weather Service predicted a return of heat and wind right before New Year's Day of 2006. Authorities expressed concern that a fresh round of holiday fireworks could touch off a fresh round of fires. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response team.
Fires in the Southern Midwes …
Title Fires in the Southern Midwest
Description On April 4, 2007, dozens of fires were burning in the southern portions of the U.S. Midwest. Marked with red dots in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite, the fires are scattered across Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Winds are blowing nearly due south, stretching smoke plumes from several of the fires. Though much of the landscape has "greened up" with the arrival of spring, higher elevations, such as the Ouachita Mountains, are still showing winter brown. The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/ ] images of the United States in additional resolutions. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center
Fires in the Southern U.S.
Title Fires in the Southern U.S.
Description Across the southern United States, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite detected scores of fires burning on March 24, 2003. In the image, the fires have been marked with red dots. At this time of year, the fires can have a variety of causes. Some are prescribed fires being set by state and federal land and forest management agencies to reduce fuels in preparation for the summer wildfire season. A few are wildfires, and others are agricultural fires being used to clear pasture or farmland. The fires are heavily concentrated in Oklahoma (left center), while the fires with the largest smoke plumes are to the east in Arkansas. At bottom center, the Mississippi River flows out into the Gulf of Mexico through Louisiana. The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at MODIS' maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
Fires in the Southern United …
Title Fires in the Southern United States
Description On March 26, 2006, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite captured an image of numerous fires burning across the Southern Plains in the United States. Fires (marked in red) were detected across parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri. According to news reports, some planned fires got out of control in Oklahoma and Kansas because of gusty winds. The high-resolution image provided above has a spatial resolution of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center
Thunderstorms Bring Floods t …
Title Thunderstorms Bring Floods to Texas
Description Thunderstorms over the weekend dumped heavy rains over parts of northern Texas. The resulting flash floods were responsible for the deaths of six people in Fort Worth and Corsicana, all of whom perished when their vehicles were swept away by flood waters. The storms formed along and ahead of a frontal boundary that pushed eastward from central Texas. Low-level moisture from the Gulf of Mexico provided the fuel for the storms. The first image shows a snapshot of the storms over Texas taken by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite, which uses both passive and active sensors to measure rainfall from space. The image was taken at 11:39 pm, US Central Time, on April 30, 2004, and shows rainfall intensity in the center swath from the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR), the first and only precipitation radar in space, and in the outer swath from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). The rain rates are overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS). A scattered but intense line of storms extends from central west Texas through northeast Texas and into Arkansas, seen more clearly in the full view provided above. Most of the storms contain areas of intense rainfall (dark red areas), especially evident over northeast Texas, as a result of strong instability and abundant moisture. The second image taken at the same time shows a vertical perspective of the 30 dBZ isosurface taken by the TRMM PR looking west. It shows rain drops or larger ice particles, which can be measured by radar, that have been carried aloft as a result of the strong updrafts in the storms (blue, green and red correspond to low, moderate and high levels, respectively). The full image is also available. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Thunderstorms Bring Floods t …
Title Thunderstorms Bring Floods to Texas
Description Thunderstorms over the weekend dumped heavy rains over parts of northern Texas. The resulting flash floods were responsible for the deaths of six people in Fort Worth and Corsicana, all of whom perished when their vehicles were swept away by flood waters. The storms formed along and ahead of a frontal boundary that pushed eastward from central Texas. Low-level moisture from the Gulf of Mexico provided the fuel for the storms. The first image shows a snapshot of the storms over Texas taken by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite, which uses both passive and active sensors to measure rainfall from space. The image was taken at 11:39 pm, US Central Time, on April 30, 2004, and shows rainfall intensity in the center swath from the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR), the first and only precipitation radar in space, and in the outer swath from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). The rain rates are overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS). A scattered but intense line of storms extends from central west Texas through northeast Texas and into Arkansas, seen more clearly in the full view provided above. Most of the storms contain areas of intense rainfall (dark red areas), especially evident over northeast Texas, as a result of strong instability and abundant moisture. The second image taken at the same time shows a vertical perspective of the 30 dBZ isosurface taken by the TRMM PR looking west. It shows rain drops or larger ice particles, which can be measured by radar, that have been carried aloft as a result of the strong updrafts in the storms (blue, green and red correspond to low, moderate and high levels, respectively). The full image is also available. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Thunderstorms Bring Floods t …
Title Thunderstorms Bring Floods to Texas
Description Thunderstorms over the weekend dumped heavy rains over parts of northern Texas. The resulting flash floods were responsible for the deaths of six people in Fort Worth and Corsicana, all of whom perished when their vehicles were swept away by flood waters. The storms formed along and ahead of a frontal boundary that pushed eastward from central Texas. Low-level moisture from the Gulf of Mexico provided the fuel for the storms. The first image shows a snapshot of the storms over Texas taken by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite, which uses both passive and active sensors to measure rainfall from space. The image was taken at 11:39 pm, US Central Time, on April 30, 2004, and shows rainfall intensity in the center swath from the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR), the first and only precipitation radar in space, and in the outer swath from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). The rain rates are overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS). A scattered but intense line of storms extends from central west Texas through northeast Texas and into Arkansas, seen more clearly in the full view provided above. Most of the storms contain areas of intense rainfall (dark red areas), especially evident over northeast Texas, as a result of strong instability and abundant moisture. The second image taken at the same time shows a vertical perspective of the 30 dBZ isosurface taken by the TRMM PR looking west. It shows rain drops or larger ice particles, which can be measured by radar, that have been carried aloft as a result of the strong updrafts in the storms (blue, green and red correspond to low, moderate and high levels, respectively). The full image is also available. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Thunderstorms Bring Floods t …
Title Thunderstorms Bring Floods to Texas
Description Thunderstorms over the weekend dumped heavy rains over parts of northern Texas. The resulting flash floods were responsible for the deaths of six people in Fort Worth and Corsicana, all of whom perished when their vehicles were swept away by flood waters. The storms formed along and ahead of a frontal boundary that pushed eastward from central Texas. Low-level moisture from the Gulf of Mexico provided the fuel for the storms. The first image shows a snapshot of the storms over Texas taken by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite, which uses both passive and active sensors to measure rainfall from space. The image was taken at 11:39 pm, US Central Time, on April 30, 2004, and shows rainfall intensity in the center swath from the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR), the first and only precipitation radar in space, and in the outer swath from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). The rain rates are overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS). A scattered but intense line of storms extends from central west Texas through northeast Texas and into Arkansas, seen more clearly in the full view provided above. Most of the storms contain areas of intense rainfall (dark red areas), especially evident over northeast Texas, as a result of strong instability and abundant moisture. The second image taken at the same time shows a vertical perspective of the 30 dBZ isosurface taken by the TRMM PR looking west. It shows rain drops or larger ice particles, which can be measured by radar, that have been carried aloft as a result of the strong updrafts in the storms (blue, green and red correspond to low, moderate and high levels, respectively). The full image is also available. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC).
Flooding in Northeast Arkans …
Title Flooding in Northeast Arkansas
Description *Flooding in Northeast Arkansas* Heavy rains in northwestern Arkansas are beginning to cause flooding downstream in northeastern Arkansas. The White River, a tributary of the Mississippi River, appeared flooded in this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] (MODIS) image, acquired by the Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite on April 27, 2004. Blue patches of water line the river, which is barely visible in an image acquired just ten days earlier. On the right side of the image, the Mississippi River forms Arkansas? eastern border with Tennessee. A narrow strip of Missouri is visible along the top of the images. The high resolution images are at MODIS? maximum resolution of 250 meters per pixel. Both the April 27 [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2004118-0427/Arkansas.A2004118.1925.721 ] and the April 17 [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2004108-0417/Arkansas.A2004108.1710.721 ] images are available in additional resolutions. Vegetation colors these false color images bright green. Clouds appear light blue. Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC
Flooding in Northeast Arkans …
Title Flooding in Northeast Arkansas
Description *Flooding in Northeast Arkansas* Heavy rains in northwestern Arkansas are beginning to cause flooding downstream in northeastern Arkansas. The White River, a tributary of the Mississippi River, appeared flooded in this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] (MODIS) image, acquired by the Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite on April 27, 2004. Blue patches of water line the river, which is barely visible in an image acquired just ten days earlier. On the right side of the image, the Mississippi River forms Arkansas? eastern border with Tennessee. A narrow strip of Missouri is visible along the top of the images. The high resolution images are at MODIS? maximum resolution of 250 meters per pixel. Both the April 27 [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2004118-0427/Arkansas.A2004118.1925.721 ] and the April 17 [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2004108-0417/Arkansas.A2004108.1710.721 ] images are available in additional resolutions. Vegetation colors these false color images bright green. Clouds appear light blue. Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC
Fires in the Southern Midwes …
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date 2007-04-04
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier USA_AMO_2007094
Fires in the Southern U.S.: …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Across the southern United S …
SouthernUS.AMOA2003083
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2003-03-24
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier SouthernUS.AMOA2003083
Floods in the U.S. Midwest: …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
* eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ima …
WhiteRiver_AMO_2008085
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mediatype image
date 2008-03-25
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier WhiteRiver_AMO_2008085
First Blizzard of the Season …
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* eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ima …
USA_AMO_2005333
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2005-11-29
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier USA_AMO_2005333
Growing-Season Fires in Cent …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Agricultural burning in prep …
CentralUS.AMOA2004091
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2004-03-31
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier CentralUS.AMOA2004091
Fires in Southern United Sta …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
The combination of parched v …
Arkansas_fire.AMO2006008
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2006-01-08
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier Arkansas_fire.AMO2006008
Growing-Season Fires in Cent …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Agricultural burning in prep …
CentralUS.AMOA2004091
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2004-03-31
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier CentralUS.AMOA2004091
Fires Across Southern United …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
This image of fires in the s …
UnitedStates.AMOA2004070
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2004-03-10
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier UnitedStates.AMOA2004070
Dust Storm in Texas: Image o …
nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle …
The same hot, dry, windy con …
texas_amo_2006001
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2006-01-01
creator NASA -- NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the rapidfire.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MODIS Rapid Response team.
identifier texas_amo_2006001
Fires in the Southern U.S.A. …
nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle …
Drought, high temperatures, …
texas_amo_2005362
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2005-12-28
creator NASA -- NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MODIS Rapid Response team.
identifier texas_amo_2005362
Snowstorm Rolls Across the U …
nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle …
A severe winter storm rolled …
centralus_amo_2002359
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mediatype image
date 2002-12-25
creator NASA -- Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
identifier centralus_amo_2002359
Fires Across the United Stat …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
This expansive image of the …
UnitedStates.A2003295
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2003-10-22
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier UnitedStates.A2003295
Fires Across the United Stat …
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This expansive image of the …
UnitedStates.A2003295
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2003-10-22
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier UnitedStates.A2003295
Snowstorms in Colorado: Natu …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
* eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ima …
colorado_tmo_2006359
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2006-12-25
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier colorado_tmo_2006359
Snowstorm Rolls Across the U …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
A severe winter storm rolled …
centralus_amo2002359
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2002-12-25
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier centralus_amo2002359
Flooding in Northeast Arkans …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
* eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ima …
modis_arkansas_17_27apr04
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2004-04-27
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier modis_arkansas_17_27apr04
Flooding in Northeast Arkans …
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* eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ima …
modis_arkansas_17_27apr04
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2004-04-27
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier modis_arkansas_17_27apr04
Growing-Season Fires in Cent …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Agricultural burning continu …
CentralUS.AMOA2004095
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2004-04-04
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier CentralUS.AMOA2004095
Fires in Central U.S.: Natur …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
On March 31, 2003, the modis …
CentralUS.AMOA2003090
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2003-03-31
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier CentralUS.AMOA2003090
Floods in the Southern and M …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
* eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ima …
Texas_AMO_2007021
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2007-01-21
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier Texas_AMO_2007021
Hurricane Rita: Image of the …
nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle …
Hurricane Rita was slowly wi …
Rita_AMO_2005266
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2005-09-23
creator NASA -- NASA image courtesy of Jeff Schmaltz, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC.
identifier Rita_AMO_2005266
Fires in Mississippi Valley: …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
What they lack in drama, the …
Mississippi.AMOA2003259
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2003-09-16
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier Mississippi.AMOA2003259
Fires in the Southern United …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
On March 26, 2006, the Moder …
SouthernPlains.AMO2006084
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2006-03-26
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier SouthernPlains.AMO2006084
Fires Across the Southern U. …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
A mixture of prescribed fire …
UnitedStates.AMOA2003014
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2003-01-14
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier UnitedStates.AMOA2003014
Fires in Arkansas' Boston Mo …
nasa, nasanaturalhazards
On the afternoon of April 13 …
Arkansas.AMO2006103
mediatype IMAGE
mediatype image
date 2006-04-13
creator NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
identifier Arkansas.AMO2006103
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