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Floods in Jakarta
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Floods in Jakarta |
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Torrential rains pounded Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, starting in late January 2007, causing floods that buried parts of the city under as much as five meters (16 feet) of water, said the World Health Organization (WHO [ http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWFiles2007.nsf/FilesByRWDocUnidFilename/A9B2CF04E0DE2A4C49257283001DEA61-Full_Report.pdf/$File/Full_Report.pdf ]). When the clouds finally cleared enough for the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite to capture the top image on February 11, most of the water had receded, but East Jakarta was still flooded. The city of Jakarta is tan compared to the bright green of the surrounding plant-covered land in these images, made from both visible and infrared light. In this type of image, water is black, or dark blue when tinged with sediment, which makes it stand out from other features in the image. Clouds, which are light blue and white, obscure some of the flood region. The city of Jakarta was built on a marsh, much of which is below sea level. The web of blue and green around the city in the lower image, taken on January 26, reveals that some of the marshland may still exist, though some of the water may be early floods, since the rains started a few days before the image was taken. By February 11, the extent of land covered in water had expanded to include sections of East Jakarta. As of February 15, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA [ http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-6YFSCZ?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=FL-2007-000023-IDN ]) reported that 80 people had died in the floods, and 16,030 remained displaced. Though water levels were receding [except in East Jakarta where as much as 100 centimeters (3 feet) of water remained], the effects of the floods were still being felt, said OCHA. Water-related diseases such as diarrhea, dengue fever, and leptospirosis [ http://0-www.cdc.gov.mill1.sjlibrary.org/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/leptospirosis_g.htm ] had been reported in hospitals throughout Jakarta. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] team. |
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Floods in Jakarta
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Floods in Jakarta |
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Torrential rains pounded Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, starting in late January 2007, causing floods that buried parts of the city under as much as five meters (16 feet) of water, said the World Health Organization (WHO [ http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWFiles2007.nsf/FilesByRWDocUnidFilename/A9B2CF04E0DE2A4C49257283001DEA61-Full_Report.pdf/$File/Full_Report.pdf ]). When the clouds finally cleared enough for the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite to capture the top image on February 11, most of the water had receded, but East Jakarta was still flooded. The city of Jakarta is tan compared to the bright green of the surrounding plant-covered land in these images, made from both visible and infrared light. In this type of image, water is black, or dark blue when tinged with sediment, which makes it stand out from other features in the image. Clouds, which are light blue and white, obscure some of the flood region. The city of Jakarta was built on a marsh, much of which is below sea level. The web of blue and green around the city in the lower image, taken on January 26, reveals that some of the marshland may still exist, though some of the water may be early floods, since the rains started a few days before the image was taken. By February 11, the extent of land covered in water had expanded to include sections of East Jakarta. As of February 15, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA [ http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-6YFSCZ?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=FL-2007-000023-IDN ]) reported that 80 people had died in the floods, and 16,030 remained displaced. Though water levels were receding [except in East Jakarta where as much as 100 centimeters (3 feet) of water remained], the effects of the floods were still being felt, said OCHA. Water-related diseases such as diarrhea, dengue fever, and leptospirosis [ http://0-www.cdc.gov.mill1.sjlibrary.org/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/leptospirosis_g.htm ] had been reported in hospitals throughout Jakarta. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] team. |
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Floods in the Southern and M
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Floods in the Southern and Midwestern United States |
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At the point where Illinois, Kentucky, and Indiana meet, the Wabash River flows into the Ohio River, which in turn will eventually feed the Mississippi River. The two rivers are susceptible to flooding in the winter and spring, and by the end of January 2007, the confluence of the Wabash and the Ohio bulged with water. The floods came after a series of winter storms pummeled the Midwest United States in mid-January. The effect of the storms on the rivers is clear from this pair of false-color images, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite. The images are made with a combination and infrared and visible light, which makes water much more visible than it would be in a photo-like image. In this combination of wavelengths, water is dark blue or black, plant-covered land is green, sparsely vegetated or bare ground is tan-pink, and burned ground is red-brown. Icy clouds are light blue, while water clouds are white. The top image was take on January 23, 2007, shortly after the storm clouds cleared. Compared to the lower image, which was taken on January 2, the Wabash, Ohio, and Little Wabash Rivers are all swollen. By January 25, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?USA3/2007025 ] the floods appeared to be receding. Daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?USA3/2007025 ] of the Midwest are available from the MODIS Rapid Response System. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. |
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Floods in the Southern and M
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Floods in the Southern and Midwestern United States |
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At the point where Illinois, Kentucky, and Indiana meet, the Wabash River flows into the Ohio River, which in turn will eventually feed the Mississippi River. The two rivers are susceptible to flooding in the winter and spring, and by the end of January 2007, the confluence of the Wabash and the Ohio bulged with water. The floods came after a series of winter storms pummeled the Midwest United States in mid-January. The effect of the storms on the rivers is clear from this pair of false-color images, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite. The images are made with a combination and infrared and visible light, which makes water much more visible than it would be in a photo-like image. In this combination of wavelengths, water is dark blue or black, plant-covered land is green, sparsely vegetated or bare ground is tan-pink, and burned ground is red-brown. Icy clouds are light blue, while water clouds are white. The top image was take on January 23, 2007, shortly after the storm clouds cleared. Compared to the lower image, which was taken on January 2, the Wabash, Ohio, and Little Wabash Rivers are all swollen. By January 25, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?USA3/2007025 ] the floods appeared to be receding. Daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?USA3/2007025 ] of the Midwest are available from the MODIS Rapid Response System. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. |
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Cyclone Indlala
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Cyclone Indlala |
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On March 14, 2007, storm-weary Madagascar braced for its fourth land-falling tropical cyclone in as many months. Cyclone Indlala was hovering off the island's northeast coast when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite captured this photo-like image at 1:40 p.m. local time (10:40 UTC). Just over a hundred kilometers offshore, the partially cloudy eye at the heart of the storm seems like a vast drain sucking in a disk of swirling clouds. According to reports from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center issued less than three hours after MODIS captured this image, Indlala had winds of 115 knots (132 miles per hour), with gusts up to 140 knots (161 mph). Wave heights were estimated to be 36 feet. At the time of the report, the storm was predicted to intensify through the subsequent 12-hour period, to turn slightly southwest, and to strike eastern Madagascar as a Category 4 storm with sustained winds up to 125 knots (144 mph), and gusts up to 150 knots (173 mph). According to Reuters AlertNet news service, Madagascar's emergency response resources were taxed to their limit in early March 2007 as a result of extensive flooding in the North, drought and food shortages in the South, and three previous hits from cyclones in the preceding few months: Bondo [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14052 ] in December 2006, Clovis [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14055 ] in January 2007, and Gamede [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14145 ] in February. You can download a 250-meter-resolution Cyclone Indlala KMZ file [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/indlala_amo_2007073.kmz ] for use with Google Earth. [ http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html ] NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center. |
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Fires in Myanmar
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Fires in Myanmar |
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From eastern India to Vietnam, scores of fires were burning across the landscape on March 13, 2007, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite passed overhead and captured this photo-like image. Places where MODIS detected actively burning fires are marked in red. Gray smoke pools into low-lying parts of the terrain and spreads in a dingy haze across clouds along the eastern edge of the scene. Agricultural and accidental fires are common across Southeast Asia in the dry season, which roughly spans the Northern Hemisphere fall and winter months. People burn crop and pasture land to prepare for the upcoming planting and growing seasons, and fires also escape control and spread into nearby forests. The fires pictured in this part of Southeast Asia lagged the widespread occurrence of burning in Cambodia and southern Thailand that MODIS observed as early as January 2007. [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14085 ] Although it is not necessarily immediately hazardous, such large-scale burning can have a strong impact on weather, climate, human health, and natural resources. You can download a 250-meter-resolution Fires in Myanmar KMZ file [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Mar2007/myanmar_amo_2007072.kmz ] for use with Google Earth. [ http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html ] NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] team. |
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Fires in Southeast Australia
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Fires in Southeast Australia |
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In the final week of April, clouds often blanketed southeastern Australia when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite passed overhead, blocking the sensor's view of the fires that were burning in the region. On April 26, Aqua MODIS captured this image of the area, and through a parting in the thin clouds, several fires (locations marked in red) were detected in the Barry Mountains. These mountains were devastated by huge bushfires [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14000 ] in December 2006 and January 2007. The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/fas/?SEAustralia3/ ] images of the region in additional resolutions. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Fires in Southeast Australia
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Fires in Southeast Australia |
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In the final week of April, clouds often blanketed southeastern Australia when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite passed overhead, blocking the sensor's view of the fires that were burning in the region. On April 26, Aqua MODIS captured this image of the area, and through a parting in the thin clouds, several fires (locations marked in red) were detected in the Barry Mountains. These mountains were devastated by huge bushfires [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14000 ] in December 2006 and January 2007. The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/fas/?SEAustralia3/ ] images of the region in additional resolutions. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Floods in Australia
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Floods in Australia |
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A large, soaking storm drenched a huge swath of the Australian Outback in the third week of January 2007. Major floods affected the arid interior of the country in several states and territories, including Northern Territory, [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14087 ] South Australia, and Queensland. Rivers that are usually little more than a string of pools rushed out of their banks, flooded small rural towns, and cut off roads to the outside world. This pair of images of southwestern Queensland shows flooding in a region known as the Channel Country. Captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov ] (top) and Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] (bottom) satellites, the images use visible and infrared light detected by MODIS to make flooded areas more obvious than they would be in a photo-like image. Standing water is blue, vegetation is green, and bare or very sparsely vegetated ground is pinkish tan. On January 10, before the rains, dry river and stream channels traced faint gray-green paths across the landscape, which appears virtually barren of other vegetation. On January 24, the flooded rivers and streams leap out from the landscape in bright blue. Vegetation in the surrounding countryside appears to be springing back to life, with a faint green tinge spreading across the underlying pinkish-tan terrain. The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily subset images of Australia in additional resolutions via a clickable map. [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/ ] NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] team. |
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Floods in Australia
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Floods in Australia |
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A large, soaking storm drenched a huge swath of the Australian Outback in the third week of January 2007. Major floods affected the arid interior of the country in several states and territories, including Northern Territory, [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14087 ] South Australia, and Queensland. Rivers that are usually little more than a string of pools rushed out of their banks, flooded small rural towns, and cut off roads to the outside world. This pair of images of southwestern Queensland shows flooding in a region known as the Channel Country. Captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov ] (top) and Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] (bottom) satellites, the images use visible and infrared light detected by MODIS to make flooded areas more obvious than they would be in a photo-like image. Standing water is blue, vegetation is green, and bare or very sparsely vegetated ground is pinkish tan. On January 10, before the rains, dry river and stream channels traced faint gray-green paths across the landscape, which appears virtually barren of other vegetation. On January 24, the flooded rivers and streams leap out from the landscape in bright blue. Vegetation in the surrounding countryside appears to be springing back to life, with a faint green tinge spreading across the underlying pinkish-tan terrain. The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily subset images of Australia in additional resolutions via a clickable map. [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/ ] NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] team. |
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