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Floods in India and Banglade
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Floods in India and Bangladesh |
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Large parts of Bangladesh (center) and India (left and upper right) are underwater in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite captured August 6, 2003 (top image). The images have been enhanced to show the presence of water, which appears dark blue, while vegetation remains green, and clouds are white (liquid water) or light blue (ice crystals). Snow on the Himalaya Mountains, which run across the top of the image, is bright blue. Compared to an image captured on March 5 (bottom) before the onset of the seasonal monsoon, rivers appear to be out of their banks and the terrain surrounding the Ganges River (flowing in from left edge) and the Brahmaputra River (flowing in from upper right) is waterlogged, with standing water giving the landscape a bruised appearance. Although flooding during the monsoon is normal, many parts of India, Bangladesh and Nepal are experiencing more severe flooding than usual. Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC |
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Haze and Sediment in Banglad
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Haze and Sediment in Bangladesh and India |
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More haze hugged the Himalaya Mountains on January 21, 2007, clouding the skies over northern India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. In the south, thick sediment clogged the mouth of the Ganges. During the Northern Hemisphere winter, haze often collects at the base of the mountains, trapped there in part by weather systems. Sediment flowing from the mouth of the Ganges is a natural occurrence, but it can be exacerbated by land-use changes as an area industrializes. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov ] satellite took this picture on January 21, 2007. In this image, the haze appears as a dingy, gray-beige fog over the region, pushing south into Bangladesh. Skies are clearer to the south, and this image offers a clear view of the Sundarbans [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundarbans ] that straddle the border between India and Bangladesh. In the east, the land surface vaguely resembles marbled paper [ http://www.gilesorr.com/Venice/marbled/ ]—the result of the same continental collision that formed the Himalayas. NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center. |
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Southern Asia Heat Wave
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Southern Asia Heat Wave |
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A pre-monsoon heat wave left India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh baking for much of June 2005. The heat wave, which started at the end of May, has claimed more than 200 lives in India alone, according to news reports, and has also caused deaths in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. The top surface temperature image, created from data gathered by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA?s Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite between May 25 and June 1, 2005, shows the start of the heat wave. Compared to images collected during the same time in 2004, there is less gradation between the hot plateaus of south Asia and the frigid peaks of the Himalaya. In 2005, searing heat, shown in yellow, spread across India?s northern plains and along the southern base of the Himalaya in Pakistan and Nepal. In agreement with this image, temperatures stayed between 40 and 50 degrees Celsius (104 ? 122 degrees F) for much of June. Monsoon rains starting on June 21 brought relief to some of the region. NASA image by Jesse Allen, based on data from Zhengming Wan, MODIS Land Surface Temperature Group, Institute for Computational Earth System Science [ http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/ ], University of California, Santa Barbara |
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Southern Asia Heat Wave
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Southern Asia Heat Wave |
| Description |
A pre-monsoon heat wave left India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh baking for much of June 2005. The heat wave, which started at the end of May, has claimed more than 200 lives in India alone, according to news reports, and has also caused deaths in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. The top surface temperature image, created from data gathered by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA?s Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite between May 25 and June 1, 2005, shows the start of the heat wave. Compared to images collected during the same time in 2004, there is less gradation between the hot plateaus of south Asia and the frigid peaks of the Himalaya. In 2005, searing heat, shown in yellow, spread across India?s northern plains and along the southern base of the Himalaya in Pakistan and Nepal. In agreement with this image, temperatures stayed between 40 and 50 degrees Celsius (104 ? 122 degrees F) for much of June. Monsoon rains starting on June 21 brought relief to some of the region. NASA image by Jesse Allen, based on data from Zhengming Wan, MODIS Land Surface Temperature Group, Institute for Computational Earth System Science [ http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/ ], University of California, Santa Barbara |
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Southern Asia Heat Wave
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Southern Asia Heat Wave |
| Description |
A pre-monsoon heat wave left India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh baking for much of June 2005. The heat wave, which started at the end of May, has claimed more than 200 lives in India alone, according to news reports, and has also caused deaths in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. The top surface temperature image, created from data gathered by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA?s Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite between May 25 and June 1, 2005, shows the start of the heat wave. Compared to images collected during the same time in 2004, there is less gradation between the hot plateaus of south Asia and the frigid peaks of the Himalaya. In 2005, searing heat, shown in yellow, spread across India?s northern plains and along the southern base of the Himalaya in Pakistan and Nepal. In agreement with this image, temperatures stayed between 40 and 50 degrees Celsius (104 ? 122 degrees F) for much of June. Monsoon rains starting on June 21 brought relief to some of the region. NASA image by Jesse Allen, based on data from Zhengming Wan, MODIS Land Surface Temperature Group, Institute for Computational Earth System Science [ http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/ ], University of California, Santa Barbara |
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Flooding in India and Bangla
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Flooding in India and Bangladesh |
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Just as the summer floods were starting to subside, September brought more rain to South Asia. The heavy monsoon rain pushed rivers in Northeast India, Nepal, and Bangladesh over their banks and forced more than a million people from their homes. These images show floods on the Sapt Kosi River in northern India. The river curves from Nepal across the Ganges Plain, where it eventually joins the Ganges River. Flowing from the Himalaya Mountains, the river is prone to flooding in the summer when snow melt combines with monsoon rains to increase the river's flow. It is one the the major tributaries of the Ganges River. The contrast between winter and spring's dry-season water levels and late-summer, rainy-season water levels is illustrated by this pair of images. The left image was taken on September 11, 2007, after several days of heavy rain. The right image is from May 22, 2007, just before the summer monsoon started. In September, the river was several kilometers wider than it had been in late May. The water is light blue, an indication that it is muddy. Though the river was widest in India, it was also swollen in Nepal. In the days that preceded September 11, heavy rains triggered floods and landslides along rivers throughout Nepal, leaving at least 15 dead, reported the Agence France-Presse [ http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SODA-76W4RF?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=FL-2007-000129-PAK ] on September 9. Along the bottom of the image, the Ganges River was also fuller than it had been earlier in the year. Additional flooding on the Ganges and its tributaries can be seen in the large images, which show a wider view of the Ganges Plain. The images were both captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite and were made with a combination of infrared and visible light to increase the contrast between water and land. In this type of image, water is black, though sediment can color the water blue. Plant-covered land is bright green, and bare earth or sparsely vegetated land is tan. Clouds are light blue and white. A photo-like [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_India3/2007254 ] version of the images is available from the MODIS Rapid Response System, which provides daily images of northern India. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. |
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Flooding in India and Bangla
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| Title |
Flooding in India and Bangladesh |
| Description |
Just as the summer floods were starting to subside, September brought more rain to South Asia. The heavy monsoon rain pushed rivers in Northeast India, Nepal, and Bangladesh over their banks and forced more than a million people from their homes. These images show floods on the Sapt Kosi River in northern India. The river curves from Nepal across the Ganges Plain, where it eventually joins the Ganges River. Flowing from the Himalaya Mountains, the river is prone to flooding in the summer when snow melt combines with monsoon rains to increase the river's flow. It is one the the major tributaries of the Ganges River. The contrast between winter and spring's dry-season water levels and late-summer, rainy-season water levels is illustrated by this pair of images. The left image was taken on September 11, 2007, after several days of heavy rain. The right image is from May 22, 2007, just before the summer monsoon started. In September, the river was several kilometers wider than it had been in late May. The water is light blue, an indication that it is muddy. Though the river was widest in India, it was also swollen in Nepal. In the days that preceded September 11, heavy rains triggered floods and landslides along rivers throughout Nepal, leaving at least 15 dead, reported the Agence France-Presse [ http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SODA-76W4RF?OpenDocument&rc=3&emid=FL-2007-000129-PAK ] on September 9. Along the bottom of the image, the Ganges River was also fuller than it had been earlier in the year. Additional flooding on the Ganges and its tributaries can be seen in the large images, which show a wider view of the Ganges Plain. The images were both captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite and were made with a combination of infrared and visible light to increase the contrast between water and land. In this type of image, water is black, though sediment can color the water blue. Plant-covered land is bright green, and bare earth or sparsely vegetated land is tan. Clouds are light blue and white. A photo-like [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_India3/2007254 ] version of the images is available from the MODIS Rapid Response System, which provides daily images of northern India. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. |
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Floods In Bangladesh and Ind
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Floods In Bangladesh and India |
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*Floods In Bangladesh and India* For the past month heavy monsoon rains have led to massive flooding in eastern India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, which have killed over 500 people and left millions homeless. This false-color image acquired on August 5, 2002, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA?s Terra spacecraft shows the extent of this flooding. In the upper right-hand corner of the image, the swollen Brahmaputra River runs east to west through the Indian state of Assam. Normally, the river and its tributaries would resemble a tangle of thin lines. Moving to the upper left-hand corner, flooding can be seen along the Ganges River in the state of Bihar, India. Both of these rivers flow into Bangladesh along with many others from India and Nepal. Heavy monsoon rains from all across the region have inundated the small country with water this year. Floodwaters have all but covered northeastern Bangladesh, which is usually dry. The Jamuna River, which runs down the center of the country off of the Brahmaputra River, now resembles a narrow lake. Millions of dollars in crops have been destroyed and thousands have been left stranded in their villages or on rafts. Forecasters are warning that flooding could get worse. In this false-color image, land is green, and water is black and dark brown. Clouds appear pink, red and white. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. |
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Haze and Sediment in Banglad
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
More haze hugged the Himalay
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ge_17934
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2007-01-21 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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Southern Asia Heat Wave: Ima
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nindia_tmolst_25may05
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2005-06-01 |
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NASA -- NASA image by Jesse Allen, based on data from Zhengming Wan, MODIS Land Surface Temperature Group, www.icess.ucsb.edu/ Institute for Computational Earth System Science , University of California, Santa Barbara |
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nindia_tmolst_25may05 |
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Flooding in India and Bangla
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
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SaptKosi_TMO_2007254
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2007-09-11 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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SaptKosi_TMO_2007254 |
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Floods In Bangladesh and Ind
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
For the past month heavy mon
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bangladesh.TMO2002217
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2002-08-06 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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bangladesh.TMO2002217 |
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Floods in India and Banglade
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Large parts of Bangladesh (c
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ganges_floods
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2003-08-06 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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ganges_floods |
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