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Bushfires Raging in Southeas …
Title Bushfires Raging in Southeast Australia
Description Smoke billows out over the Pacific Ocean from raging bushfires in southeast Australia. This image of the fires (red dots) was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite on January 21, 2003, around 3:00 p.m. local time. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
Bushfires Raging in Southeas …
Title Bushfires Raging in Southeast Australia
Description On January 19, 2003, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors on the Aqua and Terra satellites captured a series of images of the fires in southeast Australia and the plume of smoke wafting thousands of kilometers out over the Pacific Ocean. This composite image is made up of four alternating Terra and Aqua images: Terra/Aqua/Terra/Aqua (left to right). Terra is the morning satellite, so its images were acquired first. Since the satellites collect data from east to west, Terra acquired the third segment of the image, showing South Island of New Zealand first, and then a few hours later, the first segment, showing the coast of Australia. The Aqua images came next, again from east to west, so that the far right segment, showing North Island of New Zealand, came first, and the second segment, showing the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Australia, came last. Over the ocean, you can see the direction of the sunglint change based on the different orbital geometry: in the Terra image, the sunglint runs northeast-southwest, for Aqua it runs northwest-southeast. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
Bushfires Raging in Southeas …
Title Bushfires Raging in Southeast Australia
Description Bushfires rage on in southeast Australia on January 25, 2003. Smoke is covering the southeastern corner of the continent and reaching out over the Pacific Ocean in this true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) from the Aqua satellite. At top center, a large cluster of fires is burning northwest of Sydney, whose metropolitan area makes a mushroom-shaped clearing in the forests. At the bottom left of the image, several fires (red dots) have been detected on Tasmania, contributing to the regional haze. According to reports from Tuesday, January 28 (southeast Australia local time), light rain in parts of Victoria over the weekend provided only a brief pause to the steadily spreading bushfires, and weather conditions were expected to become increasingly favorable for fire activity by mid-week. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
Fires on Borneo and Sumatra
Title Fires on Borneo and Sumatra
Description On August 22, 2004, clouds and smoke swirled over the islands that sit between Australia and Asia, at the crossroads of the Indian Ocean to the west and the Pacific Ocean to the east. Large islands pictured here are Borneo (right), Java (bottom), and Sumatra (left) At top left is the southern tip of mainland Malaysia. In each of these places, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite detected actively burning fires (marked in red). Over the weekend of August 21, the haze in Singapore (at the southern tip of mainland Malaysia), at least some of which was smoke from the fires, was so severe that air traffic was interrupted. NASA image by Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-GSFC
Tropical Cyclone Erica (22P)
Title Tropical Cyclone Erica (22P)
Description East of Australia in the Pacific Ocean, Tropical Cyclone Erica plowed into the French island of New Caledonia on March 13, 2003, leaving at least one person dead and many others injured. Erica peaked as a Category 5 cyclone on March 12, and as of March 14 had showed rapid weakening to a Category 1 storm. This image of Erica shows the storm's eye northwest of New Caledonia on March 13. The high-resolution image provided above is 1 kilometer 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
Floods in East Africa
Title Floods in East Africa
Description Kenya gets most of its rainfall in two doses: a long rainy season that runs from March or April through July or August, and a short rainy season that starts in September or October and usually tapers off in December. As if trying to make up for lack of rain during the 2005 short rainy season, [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17250 ]which failed entirely, the rainy season that started in October 2006 proved to be unusually heavy. Some locations in Kenya received as much as 200 millimeters more rain than average in October. The heavy rain fell on drought-baked ground, triggering extensive flooding in northern Kenya. The East Africa Standard, [ http://allafrica.com/stories/200610280016.html ] a Nairobi newspaper, reported on October 28 that 10 people had died in the flooding and more than 75,000 were made homeless. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured the top image of flooding in northern Kenya on October 30, 2006. Aquamarine, sediment-laden flood water runs through the Laga Bogal and Laga Bor river channels and spreads across the surrounding landscape in places. The Lorian Swamp, in the lower-right corner of the image, appeared dry on October 14, when the lower image was captured. By October 30, water flowed through the swamp. The rain has also spurred plant growth. The arid landscape assumed a green tint in the two weeks that passed between October 14 and October 30. In these false-color images, made with both infrared and visible light, vegetation is bright green, bare or sparsely vegetated ground is tan-pink, and clouds are pale blue and white. In this type of image, water is typically black or dark blue, but sediment has given the water a blue-green color in the top image. Eastern Africa regularly goes through cycles of drought and floods, possibly driven by El Niño. El Niño is a cyclical warming of ocean waters in the central and eastern Pacific that can alter weather patterns around the world. In general, El Niño causes drought in some regions like Indonesia, Australia, and the Philippines, while bringing excess rain to others, including East Africa and the southwestern United States. In September 2006, NASA's JASON satellite recorded a mild El Niño [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17419 ] in the tropical Pacific Ocean. At the same time, drought [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13943 ] was settling in over Australia and heavy rain pounded East Africa.Daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?NAfrica_3_07 ] of East Africa are provided by the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC.
Floods in East Africa
Title Floods in East Africa
Description Kenya gets most of its rainfall in two doses: a long rainy season that runs from March or April through July or August, and a short rainy season that starts in September or October and usually tapers off in December. As if trying to make up for lack of rain during the 2005 short rainy season, [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17250 ]which failed entirely, the rainy season that started in October 2006 proved to be unusually heavy. Some locations in Kenya received as much as 200 millimeters more rain than average in October. The heavy rain fell on drought-baked ground, triggering extensive flooding in northern Kenya. The East Africa Standard, [ http://allafrica.com/stories/200610280016.html ] a Nairobi newspaper, reported on October 28 that 10 people had died in the flooding and more than 75,000 were made homeless. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured the top image of flooding in northern Kenya on October 30, 2006. Aquamarine, sediment-laden flood water runs through the Laga Bogal and Laga Bor river channels and spreads across the surrounding landscape in places. The Lorian Swamp, in the lower-right corner of the image, appeared dry on October 14, when the lower image was captured. By October 30, water flowed through the swamp. The rain has also spurred plant growth. The arid landscape assumed a green tint in the two weeks that passed between October 14 and October 30. In these false-color images, made with both infrared and visible light, vegetation is bright green, bare or sparsely vegetated ground is tan-pink, and clouds are pale blue and white. In this type of image, water is typically black or dark blue, but sediment has given the water a blue-green color in the top image. Eastern Africa regularly goes through cycles of drought and floods, possibly driven by El Niño. El Niño is a cyclical warming of ocean waters in the central and eastern Pacific that can alter weather patterns around the world. In general, El Niño causes drought in some regions like Indonesia, Australia, and the Philippines, while bringing excess rain to others, including East Africa and the southwestern United States. In September 2006, NASA's JASON satellite recorded a mild El Niño [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17419 ] in the tropical Pacific Ocean. At the same time, drought [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13943 ] was settling in over Australia and heavy rain pounded East Africa.Daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?NAfrica_3_07 ] of East Africa are provided by the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC.
Bushfires Raging in Southeas …
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On January 19, 2003, the mod …
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Bushfires Raging in Southeas …
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Bushfires rage on in southea …
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Floods in East Africa: Natur …
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The South Island, New Zealan …
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Fires on Borneo and Sumatra: …
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On August 22, 2004, clouds a …
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