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Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) of Bangladesh from 1997
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Floods in India and Banglade
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Floods in India and Bangladesh |
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Some of the worst flooding in over a decade is now being reported across southern Asia as a result of summer monsoon rains. So far, there have been over 240 fatalities in Nepal, India and Bangladesh since the flooding began, and up to 10 million people have been displaced by the widespread flooding. Nepal has been hit hard by flash floods and mudslides. In India, the hardest hit states are Assam and Bihar. Twenty-two of the 24 districts in Assam are reported to be under water as the Brahmaputra river continues to rise. Meanwhile, in Bangladesh the worst hit province is Sylhet where the Surma and Kushiyara rivers have flooded widespread areas. Sylhet borders the Indian state of Assam. Since its launch in November of 1997, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite has been providing un-precedented estimates of rainfall over the global Tropics. Armed with both passive and active sensors, TRMM is able to cover vast areas of the Tropics where rainfall is poorly measured such as over oceans and over land areas where radar coverage is poor or lacking. The TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center monitors rainfall over the global tropics. MPA rainfall totals for the period 5-12 July 2004 are shown for southern Asia. Widespread areas of 10 inches or more (red areas) occur along southern Nepal, northern and northeastern India and northern and southeastern Bangladesh. Some of the highest totals approaching 16 inches (dark red areas) are over central Nepal at the base of the Himalayan Mountains and over the Khasi Hills near the border between province of Sylhet in Bangladesh and the state of Assam, India. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Image produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC). |
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Floods in India and Banglade
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Floods in India and Bangladesh |
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Some of the worst flooding in over a decade is now being reported across southern Asia as a result of summer monsoon rains. So far, there have been over 240 fatalities in Nepal, India and Bangladesh since the flooding began, and up to 10 million people have been displaced by the widespread flooding. Nepal has been hit hard by flash floods and mudslides. In India, the hardest hit states are Assam and Bihar. Twenty-two of the 24 districts in Assam are reported to be under water as the Brahmaputra river continues to rise. Meanwhile, in Bangladesh the worst hit province is Sylhet where the Surma and Kushiyara rivers have flooded widespread areas. Sylhet borders the Indian state of Assam. Since its launch in November of 1997, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite has been providing un-precedented estimates of rainfall over the global Tropics. Armed with both passive and active sensors, TRMM is able to cover vast areas of the Tropics where rainfall is poorly measured such as over oceans and over land areas where radar coverage is poor or lacking. The TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center monitors rainfall over the global tropics. MPA rainfall totals for the period 5-12 July 2004 are shown for southern Asia. Widespread areas of 10 inches or more (red areas) occur along southern Nepal, northern and northeastern India and northern and southeastern Bangladesh. Some of the highest totals approaching 16 inches (dark red areas) are over central Nepal at the base of the Himalayan Mountains and over the Khasi Hills near the border between province of Sylhet in Bangladesh and the state of Assam, India. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Image produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC). |
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Monsoon Rains Flood East Asi
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Monsoon Rains Flood East Asia |
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The summer rainy season brought on by the summer monsoon has arrived over eastern Asia bringing with it seasonal flooding and torrential rains. Over the past few weeks, parts of Nepal, India and Bangladesh have been devastated by floods, but areas farther north have received their share of heavy rain too. China, Korea, and Japan have all suffered casualties recently as a result of flooding brought on by torrential rains. Over the past week, at least 17 people were lost due to flooding and mudslides in Japan. The situation is even worse in China as the death tolls have climbed into the hundreds so far this year. Hardest hit are southern, central and, more recently, eastern China particularly along the Huai River, which is at its highest level in over a decade. In November of 1997, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] (TRMM) satellite was launched in an effort to provide better estimates of rainfall over the global Tropics. Since that time, TRMM has been providing unprecedented estimates of rainfall over the Tropics using its array of passive and active sensors. TRMM can cover vast areas of the Tropics where rainfall is poorly measured such as over oceans and land areas where radar coverage is poor or lacking. The TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center provides rainfall estimates over the global Tropics. MPA rainfall totals for July 12 through July 19, 2004, are shown for East Asia. A swath of 4 to 8 inch rainfall (green area) extends from central China across the Yellow Sea, South Korea, and the Sea of Japan and into central Japan. The highest totals are over eastern China in the Shandong, Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces where between 12 and 20 inches (red area) of rain fell. Localized areas of over a foot of rain appear along parts of the southern and eastern coast of South Korea and over central Japan along the east coast of Honshu. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Image produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC). |
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Monsoon Rains Flood East Asi
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Monsoon Rains Flood East Asia |
| Description |
The summer rainy season brought on by the summer monsoon has arrived over eastern Asia bringing with it seasonal flooding and torrential rains. Over the past few weeks, parts of Nepal, India and Bangladesh have been devastated by floods, but areas farther north have received their share of heavy rain too. China, Korea, and Japan have all suffered casualties recently as a result of flooding brought on by torrential rains. Over the past week, at least 17 people were lost due to flooding and mudslides in Japan. The situation is even worse in China as the death tolls have climbed into the hundreds so far this year. Hardest hit are southern, central and, more recently, eastern China particularly along the Huai River, which is at its highest level in over a decade. In November of 1997, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] (TRMM) satellite was launched in an effort to provide better estimates of rainfall over the global Tropics. Since that time, TRMM has been providing unprecedented estimates of rainfall over the Tropics using its array of passive and active sensors. TRMM can cover vast areas of the Tropics where rainfall is poorly measured such as over oceans and land areas where radar coverage is poor or lacking. The TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center provides rainfall estimates over the global Tropics. MPA rainfall totals for July 12 through July 19, 2004, are shown for East Asia. A swath of 4 to 8 inch rainfall (green area) extends from central China across the Yellow Sea, South Korea, and the Sea of Japan and into central Japan. The highest totals are over eastern China in the Shandong, Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces where between 12 and 20 inches (red area) of rain fell. Localized areas of over a foot of rain appear along parts of the southern and eastern coast of South Korea and over central Japan along the east coast of Honshu. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Image produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC). |
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