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Mississippi River L, C bands
This image of the Mississipp …
5/25/95
Date 5/25/95
Description This image of the Mississippi River in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana shows regions of the southern United States that are prone to flooding. Data acquired by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar- C/X-band Synthetic Aperture imaging radar system, which flew on two space shuttle missions in April and October 1994, can help scientists assess flooding potentials and improve land management for future agricultural development. This image was acquired on October 9,1994, during orbit 151 of the space shuttle Endeavour. The image is centered at about 32.75 degrees north latitude and 90.5 degrees west longitude and covers an area of about 23 kilometers by 40 kilometers (14.2 miles by 24.8 miles). North is toward the upper right of the image. The different colors represent the data return in different radar channels: red is L- band, vertically transmitted and received, green is L-band vertically transmitted and horizontally received, and blue is C- band vertically transmitted and received. This site along the Mississippi River lies north of Vicksburg along the Arkansas- Louisiana-Mississippi state borders. The river marks the stateline. Louisiana and Arkansas lie above the river and Mississippi is below the river. This region is characterized by rich farmland where a variety of crops are grown. The town located in the extreme upper left hand corner is Eudora, Arkansas. The long,narrow lakes which lie roughly parallel to the river are called oxbow lakes, named for the U-shaped harness worn by an ox. Oxbows are formed when a river changes course, abandoning old channels in favor of a new course. As the river changes course, the surrounding land dries out, leaving these lakes isolated. Oxbow lakes are common in areas where rivers flow through generally flat terrain, allowing the river to easily change course. The green regions bordering the river are undeveloped forested areas.
Floods in the Southeastern U …
Title Floods in the Southeastern United States
Description Weekend storms dumped heavy rain over Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee on September 23 and 24, 2006. More than 10 inches of rain fell over parts of the region, giving rise to flash floods that killed 12 people, reported the Associated Press. [ http://abcnews.go.com/US/Weather/wireStory?id=2487440&page=1 ] By September 25, the clouds had cleared, providing the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite this view of the floods. In the top image, large portions of northeast Arkansas and southeast Missouri are dotted with dark pools of standing water. The rivers flowing into the Mississippi River in Kentucky are swollen, as are rivers in Arkansas. At the time this image was collected, a flood advisory [ http://www.srh.noaa.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=ARZ016&warncounty=ARC063&local_place1=Newark&product1=Flood+Statement ] remained in effect for the Black River, which flows north-south along the left edge of the image. The lower image shows the four states on September 20, a few days before the storms. In this image, it is clear that much of the land that was flooded was agricultural land. Cultivated land on both sides of the Mississippi River forms a grid of tan and green squares. Primarily natural or non-cultivated vegetation, by contrast, is solid green. The floods on the west side of the Mississippi have a checker-board appearance, indicating that water covers low-lying, rectangular farm fields. The large images provided above are at MODIS' maximum resolution of 250 meters per pixel. Daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?USA7/2006268 ] of the southeastern United States are available from the MODIS Rapid Response Team in a variety of resolutions. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC.
Floods in the Southeastern U …
Title Floods in the Southeastern United States
Description Weekend storms dumped heavy rain over Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee on September 23 and 24, 2006. More than 10 inches of rain fell over parts of the region, giving rise to flash floods that killed 12 people, reported the Associated Press. [ http://abcnews.go.com/US/Weather/wireStory?id=2487440&page=1 ] By September 25, the clouds had cleared, providing the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite this view of the floods. In the top image, large portions of northeast Arkansas and southeast Missouri are dotted with dark pools of standing water. The rivers flowing into the Mississippi River in Kentucky are swollen, as are rivers in Arkansas. At the time this image was collected, a flood advisory [ http://www.srh.noaa.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=ARZ016&warncounty=ARC063&local_place1=Newark&product1=Flood+Statement ] remained in effect for the Black River, which flows north-south along the left edge of the image. The lower image shows the four states on September 20, a few days before the storms. In this image, it is clear that much of the land that was flooded was agricultural land. Cultivated land on both sides of the Mississippi River forms a grid of tan and green squares. Primarily natural or non-cultivated vegetation, by contrast, is solid green. The floods on the west side of the Mississippi have a checker-board appearance, indicating that water covers low-lying, rectangular farm fields. The large images provided above are at MODIS' maximum resolution of 250 meters per pixel. Daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?USA7/2006268 ] of the southeastern United States are available from the MODIS Rapid Response Team in a variety of resolutions. 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.
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 The rivers of northeast Arkansas were running high on January 24, 2007, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured the top image. The National Weather Service warned residents of minor flooding along the White River on January 24, and the river was expected to remain high for several days. The floods followed a strong winter storm, [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17530 ] which coated the Midwest United States with rain, ice, and snow on January 15 and January 16. The lower image shows normal conditions on the river as seen by Terra MODIS on January 10. Both images were made with a combination of visible and infrared light. Water is dark blue or black, vegetation is green, and clouds are pale blue and white. Daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?USA7/2007024 ] of the United States are available from the MODIS Rapid Response System. NASA image 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 The rivers of northeast Arkansas were running high on January 24, 2007, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured the top image. The National Weather Service warned residents of minor flooding along the White River on January 24, and the river was expected to remain high for several days. The floods followed a strong winter storm, [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17530 ] which coated the Midwest United States with rain, ice, and snow on January 15 and January 16. The lower image shows normal conditions on the river as seen by Terra MODIS on January 10. Both images were made with a combination of visible and infrared light. Water is dark blue or black, vegetation is green, and clouds are pale blue and white. Daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?USA7/2007024 ] of the United States are available from the MODIS Rapid Response System. NASA image 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
Killer Storms in the souther …
Title Killer Storms in the southern Plains and the Southeast
Description *animations: * small movie (848 KB) large movie (2.8 MB) Severe thunder storms formed over the midwestern United States on May 4, 2003, and spawned dozens of tornadoes that swept through parts of Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee, leaving a wake of destruction and killing as many as 35 people. Eighty-three tornadoes were reported, according to an official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but the official count has not yet been confirmed. Pierce City, MO, was among the locations hardest hit. Residents of the small town in southwestern Missouri report that almost every structure in the town—houses and businesses alike—were flattened in a span of about 30 seconds by the tornado that roared through there. After forming late in the day over southeastern Kansas and Missouri, the line of thunder storms moved quickly eastward. Much of the damage appears to be along the Kansas-Missouri border. One official with the National Weather Service estimates that the storm that ripped through Pierce City was at least a Category F3 tornado—packing winds between 158 and 206 miles per hour. Eastern states have been put on alert as the storm system moves toward the southern states, bringing the potential for more tornadoes to occur in Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, and northern Georgia. The image above was acquired by the NOAA GOES-12 satellite on May 4. The time series animation shows cloud tops of the storm system forming over southeastern Kansas and Missouri and then moving eastward as night falls. Image and animation courtesy Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory, GOES data courtesy Dennis Chesters, NASA GSFC
Killer Storms in the souther …
Title Killer Storms in the southern Plains and the Southeast
Description TRMM Eyes Great Plains Severe Thunderstorms On Sunday, May 4, a super outbreak of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms swarmed across the southern Plains region of the United States. According to the Storm Prediction Center, there were 275 reports of large hail, 89 reports of wind damage and 84 tornadoes. On this day, 187 tornado warnings were issued across Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, North Dakota and South Dakota. The Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission, which contains the world's only spaceborne weather radar, overflew several of these deadly thunderstorm cells late on May 4. The image shows the white, cloudy tops of several thunderstorm cells from the vantage of the GOES satellite. The TRMM orbit (dark shading) is superimposed on this cloudy background. There is a particularly intense storm cell located over western Oklahoma (left side of image). Whereas the GOES satellite shows this to be a single, isolated storm, the TRMM precipitation radar reveals that it is actually composed of three smaller precipitation cores in various stages of development. The vertical scale of the rain features has been greatly exaggerated to show details. The dark blue colors correspond to the tallest rain cells (approaching 15-16 km depth) while red colors indicated shallower rain features. This particular "multicell" storm produced damaging hail as it moved from west to east across Oklahoma. For more TRMM views of this historical thunderstorm day, visit the TRMM website (trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov). Image created by Hal Pierce of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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
Smoke from Alaskan Fires ove …
Title Smoke from Alaskan Fires over Louisiana
Description This image of the southern United States from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite is a picture-perfect example of what meteorologists mean when they describe the atmosphere as a fluid. In the center of the image, an airborne river of smoke from fires raging across Alaska is flowing down the Mississippi River corridor and spreading out across the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico, at the bottom of the scene. Thick smoke hangs over Louisiana (bottom center) as well as Texas, to the west, and Arkansas to the north. MODIS captured the image on July 19, 2004. NASA image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at 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 Southern United Sta …
Title Fires in Southern United States
Description On January 2, 2006, winds whipped a fast-moving fire across the grasslands just south of the Red River, which marks the border between Oklahoma and Texas. According to reports from the Associated Press, the fire nearly razed the small ranch town of Ringgold, Texas, destroying as many as 50 homes and most of the buildings along the small town's Main Street. The fire scorched tens of thousands of acres between Ringgold and the town of Nocona, to the southeast. The charcoal-colored burn scar slices through the center of this image, captured on January 8, 2006, by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov ] satellite. To make the burn scar stand out more prominently, the image was enhanced with the sensor's observations of near- and shortwave-infrared energy as well as visible light. Winter-bare ground is tan and brown, while patches of red indicate growing vegetation, probably irrigated crops. The small town of Nocona appears as a cement-gray splash at lower right of the scene, while the location of Ringgold is obscured by a cloud at image left. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor [ http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/archive/2006/drmon0103.htm ] map for January 3, drought stretched across the south-central United States in the first of January, affecting Arizona, southern Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and western Arkansas. A pocket of Exceptional Drought—the highest drought category on the scale—spanned northeastern Texas, southeastern Oklahoma, and intruded a short distance into western Arkansas. The lack of rain, high temperatures, and strong winds were a menace for firefighters across the region, who continued to battle grassland and other wildfires through the first part of the month. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data provided courtesy of the NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS and U.S./Japan ASTER Science 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 in the Central …
Title Thunderstorms in the Central United States
Description It is not uncommon for severe weather to strike the plains of the midwestern United States in the spring. Storm systems organizing east of the Rockies in the springtime are known for delivering severe weather to the central United States. This was the case on May 13 and 14, 2005, when cold air coming down from the Rockies collided with warm, moist air coming up from the Gulf of Mexico. Strong storms with hail and gusty winds pounded the country from the panhandle of Texas into the Ohio valley and Mid-Atlantic. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured these images of the storms on May 14. The top image shows an instantaneous snapshot of a storm complex that extended from northern Texas into eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas. The image was taken at 1:29 a.m. U.S. Central Daylight time and shows the horizontal distribution of rain intensity as seen from above. Rain rates in the center swath are from TRMM's precipitation radar—the first and only precipitation radar in space—while rain rates in the outer swath are from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). The rain rates are overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS). In this image, a wavy squall-line type system stretches across eastern Oklahoma. A squall line is characterized by a linear convective leading edge having strong updrafts and heavy rain (red areas) followed by stratiform rain, a broad area of light rain (green and blue areas). Strong winds can distort the linear features of a squall line into the sort of wavy pattern seen here, and indeed, wind damage was reported in Oklahoma and Arkansas where the squall line passed. More intense convective cells (dark red) sit over north-central Texas, where there were several hail reports associated with the storms. The storm also produced a great deal of lightning, as revealed by the lightning data from the TRMM Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS), which have been overlaid on the rain rates in the top image. The clusters of magenta-colored crosses indicate areas of lightning activity observed near the time of the image and include cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-ground, and intracloud flashes. The lower image shows a 3-D perspective view of the 30-decibel radar echo, the type of signal received over regions of moderately intense rain, associated with the squall line along the Oklahoma-Arkansas border. The surface is colored according to the height of the surface with red being the highest. The higher the surface, the more intense the convection is. Echoes near this intensity that penetrate above the -10 to -20 degrees Celsius level are also a good indication of the potential for cloud-to-ground lightning. The cluster of magenta crosses along the squall line confirm the intensity of lightning in the region.TRMM [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ], 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 in the Central …
Title Thunderstorms in the Central United States
Description It is not uncommon for severe weather to strike the plains of the midwestern United States in the spring. Storm systems organizing east of the Rockies in the springtime are known for delivering severe weather to the central United States. This was the case on May 13 and 14, 2005, when cold air coming down from the Rockies collided with warm, moist air coming up from the Gulf of Mexico. Strong storms with hail and gusty winds pounded the country from the panhandle of Texas into the Ohio valley and Mid-Atlantic. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured these images of the storms on May 14. The top image shows an instantaneous snapshot of a storm complex that extended from northern Texas into eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas. The image was taken at 1:29 a.m. U.S. Central Daylight time and shows the horizontal distribution of rain intensity as seen from above. Rain rates in the center swath are from TRMM's precipitation radar—the first and only precipitation radar in space—while rain rates in the outer swath are from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). The rain rates are overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS). In this image, a wavy squall-line type system stretches across eastern Oklahoma. A squall line is characterized by a linear convective leading edge having strong updrafts and heavy rain (red areas) followed by stratiform rain, a broad area of light rain (green and blue areas). Strong winds can distort the linear features of a squall line into the sort of wavy pattern seen here, and indeed, wind damage was reported in Oklahoma and Arkansas where the squall line passed. More intense convective cells (dark red) sit over north-central Texas, where there were several hail reports associated with the storms. The storm also produced a great deal of lightning, as revealed by the lightning data from the TRMM Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS), which have been overlaid on the rain rates in the top image. The clusters of magenta-colored crosses indicate areas of lightning activity observed near the time of the image and include cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-ground, and intracloud flashes. The lower image shows a 3-D perspective view of the 30-decibel radar echo, the type of signal received over regions of moderately intense rain, associated with the squall line along the Oklahoma-Arkansas border. The surface is colored according to the height of the surface with red being the highest. The higher the surface, the more intense the convection is. Echoes near this intensity that penetrate above the -10 to -20 degrees Celsius level are also a good indication of the potential for cloud-to-ground lightning. The cluster of magenta crosses along the squall line confirm the intensity of lightning in the region.TRMM [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ], 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 in the Central …
Title Thunderstorms in the Central United States
Description It is not uncommon for severe weather to strike the plains of the midwestern United States in the spring. Storm systems organizing east of the Rockies in the springtime are known for delivering severe weather to the central United States. This was the case on May 13 and 14, 2005, when cold air coming down from the Rockies collided with warm, moist air coming up from the Gulf of Mexico. Strong storms with hail and gusty winds pounded the country from the panhandle of Texas into the Ohio valley and Mid-Atlantic. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured these images of the storms on May 14. The top image shows an instantaneous snapshot of a storm complex that extended from northern Texas into eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas. The image was taken at 1:29 a.m. U.S. Central Daylight time and shows the horizontal distribution of rain intensity as seen from above. Rain rates in the center swath are from TRMM's precipitation radar—the first and only precipitation radar in space—while rain rates in the outer swath are from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). The rain rates are overlaid on infrared (IR) data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner (VIRS). In this image, a wavy squall-line type system stretches across eastern Oklahoma. A squall line is characterized by a linear convective leading edge having strong updrafts and heavy rain (red areas) followed by stratiform rain, a broad area of light rain (green and blue areas). Strong winds can distort the linear features of a squall line into the sort of wavy pattern seen here, and indeed, wind damage was reported in Oklahoma and Arkansas where the squall line passed. More intense convective cells (dark red) sit over north-central Texas, where there were several hail reports associated with the storms. The storm also produced a great deal of lightning, as revealed by the lightning data from the TRMM Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS), which have been overlaid on the rain rates in the top image. The clusters of magenta-colored crosses indicate areas of lightning activity observed near the time of the image and include cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-ground, and intracloud flashes. The lower image shows a 3-D perspective view of the 30-decibel radar echo, the type of signal received over regions of moderately intense rain, associated with the squall line along the Oklahoma-Arkansas border. The surface is colored according to the height of the surface with red being the highest. The higher the surface, the more intense the convection is. Echoes near this intensity that penetrate above the -10 to -20 degrees Celsius level are also a good indication of the potential for cloud-to-ground lightning. The cluster of magenta crosses along the squall line confirm the intensity of lightning in the region.TRMM [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ], 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 in the Midwest …
Title Thunderstorms in the Midwestern United States
Description A slow-moving weather front was responsible for spreading severe storms and flooding across parts of the southeastern and mid-western United States on September 23 and September 24, 2006. The storms occurred when low air pressure over the Central Plains drew warm, humid air up from the Gulf of Mexico. The warm air interacted with strong, upper-level winds. There were numerous reports of tornados, hail, and wind damage on Friday, September 22, across southeastern Missouri and the central Mississippi Valley. On Saturday, September 23, the focus shifted eastward into Tennessee and eastern Kentucky, with the primary threat being damaging winds. Overall, a total of 12 people died as a result of the storms, according to the Associated Press, but most of the fatalities were due to flash flooding [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13894 ] in Kentucky. These images, based on data collected by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite (known as TRMM [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ]), show the flood-producing rains. The top image shows rainfall totals for September 23 and September 24 derived from the TRMM-based, near-real-time, Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, which monitors rainfall over the global tropics. Dark red areas along the Arkansas-Missouri border and stretching into far western Kentucky indicate that rain amounts exceeded 10 inches (about 250 millimeters). Five-inch amounts (130 millimeters, shown in green) stretch from western Oklahoma and up through the Ohio Valley. The lower image shows an instantaneous snapshot of the actual storms as they swept through the Midwest. The image was taken by TRMM at 18:25 UTC (1:15 p.m. CDT) on September 23, 2006, and it shows the distribution of rain intensity as seen from above. A long line of storms (green area) moves southwest to northeast through the central Mississippi Valley. The storms are followed by a broader area of light rain (broad blue area). Areas of intense rainfall (darker reds) associated with heavier thunderstorms are located over northeast Texas, western Kentucky, and eastern Tennessee. Rain rates in the center of the swath are from the TRMM Precipitation Radar, while those in the outer swath are from the TRMM Microwave Imager. The rain rates are overlaid on infrared data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner. 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 in the Midwest …
Title Thunderstorms in the Midwestern United States
Description A slow-moving weather front was responsible for spreading severe storms and flooding across parts of the southeastern and mid-western United States on September 23 and September 24, 2006. The storms occurred when low air pressure over the Central Plains drew warm, humid air up from the Gulf of Mexico. The warm air interacted with strong, upper-level winds. There were numerous reports of tornados, hail, and wind damage on Friday, September 22, across southeastern Missouri and the central Mississippi Valley. On Saturday, September 23, the focus shifted eastward into Tennessee and eastern Kentucky, with the primary threat being damaging winds. Overall, a total of 12 people died as a result of the storms, according to the Associated Press, but most of the fatalities were due to flash flooding [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13894 ] in Kentucky. These images, based on data collected by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite (known as TRMM [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ]), show the flood-producing rains. The top image shows rainfall totals for September 23 and September 24 derived from the TRMM-based, near-real-time, Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, which monitors rainfall over the global tropics. Dark red areas along the Arkansas-Missouri border and stretching into far western Kentucky indicate that rain amounts exceeded 10 inches (about 250 millimeters). Five-inch amounts (130 millimeters, shown in green) stretch from western Oklahoma and up through the Ohio Valley. The lower image shows an instantaneous snapshot of the actual storms as they swept through the Midwest. The image was taken by TRMM at 18:25 UTC (1:15 p.m. CDT) on September 23, 2006, and it shows the distribution of rain intensity as seen from above. A long line of storms (green area) moves southwest to northeast through the central Mississippi Valley. The storms are followed by a broader area of light rain (broad blue area). Areas of intense rainfall (darker reds) associated with heavier thunderstorms are located over northeast Texas, western Kentucky, and eastern Tennessee. Rain rates in the center of the swath are from the TRMM Precipitation Radar, while those in the outer swath are from the TRMM Microwave Imager. The rain rates are overlaid on infrared data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner. 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 along the Mississip …
Title Flooding along the Mississippi
Description *large images:*  April 25, 2002 (1.8 MB JPEG)  May 18, 2002 (2.3 MB JPEG) Over the past two weeks, heavy rains gave rise to floods all across the midwestern United States, killing 8 people and forcing many more from their homes. These false-color images show the junction of the Ohio River and the Mississippi River where the flooding was at its worse. The images compare April 25, 2002, to May 18, 2002, with data from the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [ http://modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] (MODIS), flying aboard NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] spacecraft. The Mississippi River rose up to 12 feet above flood stage in the area shown here. Southeast Missouri and northern Arkansas, which are west of the great river, felt the brunt of the floods. Altogether, more than 50 counties in the state of Missouri reported flood damage. Farther north in Illinois, Gov. George Ryan declared the entire state a natural disaster area. Severe floods also occurred to the east in Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana. Normally, all the rivers in this image would resemble thin black lines (left image). Though skies in the region are clear now, thunderstorms are forecast for later this week, and heavy rains could lead to continued flooding. In these false-color images, green shows bare land surface and black is water. The orange-brown shades show vegetated areas and the pinkish-white patches are clouds. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] at NASA GSFC
Flooding along the Mississip …
Title Flooding along the Mississippi
Description *large images:*  April 25, 2002 (1.8 MB JPEG)  May 18, 2002 (2.3 MB JPEG) Over the past two weeks, heavy rains gave rise to floods all across the midwestern United States, killing 8 people and forcing many more from their homes. These false-color images show the junction of the Ohio River and the Mississippi River where the flooding was at its worse. The images compare April 25, 2002, to May 18, 2002, with data from the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [ http://modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] (MODIS), flying aboard NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] spacecraft. The Mississippi River rose up to 12 feet above flood stage in the area shown here. Southeast Missouri and northern Arkansas, which are west of the great river, felt the brunt of the floods. Altogether, more than 50 counties in the state of Missouri reported flood damage. Farther north in Illinois, Gov. George Ryan declared the entire state a natural disaster area. Severe floods also occurred to the east in Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana. Normally, all the rivers in this image would resemble thin black lines (left image). Though skies in the region are clear now, thunderstorms are forecast for later this week, and heavy rains could lead to continued flooding. In these false-color images, green shows bare land surface and black is water. The orange-brown shades show vegetated areas and the pinkish-white patches are clouds. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] at NASA GSFC
Flooding along the Mississip …
Title Flooding along the Mississippi
Description *large images:*  April 25, 2002 (1.8 MB JPEG)  May 18, 2002 (2.3 MB JPEG) Over the past two weeks, heavy rains gave rise to floods all across the midwestern United States, killing 8 people and forcing many more from their homes. These false-color images show the junction of the Ohio River and the Mississippi River where the flooding was at its worse. The images compare April 25, 2002, to May 18, 2002, with data from the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [ http://modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] (MODIS), flying aboard NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] spacecraft. The Mississippi River rose up to 12 feet above flood stage in the area shown here. Southeast Missouri and northern Arkansas, which are west of the great river, felt the brunt of the floods. Altogether, more than 50 counties in the state of Missouri reported flood damage. Farther north in Illinois, Gov. George Ryan declared the entire state a natural disaster area. Severe floods also occurred to the east in Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana. Normally, all the rivers in this image would resemble thin black lines (left image). Though skies in the region are clear now, thunderstorms are forecast for later this week, and heavy rains could lead to continued flooding. In these false-color images, green shows bare land surface and black is water. The orange-brown shades show vegetated areas and the pinkish-white patches are clouds. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] at NASA GSFC
Flooding on the Ohio and Mis …
Title Flooding on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
Description In mid-May 2002, heavy rains gave rise to floods all across the midwestern United States, killing 8 people and forcing many more from their homes. This false-color image shows the junction of the Ohio River and the Mississippi River where the flooding was at its worst. The image was acquired by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] spacecraft. The Mississippi River rose up to 12 feet above flood stage in the area shown here. Southeast Missouri and northern Arkansas, which are west of the great river, felt the brunt of the floods. Altogether, more than 50 counties in the state of Missouri reported flood damage. Farther north in Illinois, Gov. George Ryan declared the entire state a natural disaster area. Severe floods also occurred to the east in Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana. Normally, all the rivers in this image would resemble thin black lines (left image). Though skies in the region are clear now, thunderstorms are forecast for later this week, and heavy rains could lead to continued flooding. In this false-color image, green shows land surface and black is water. The pinkish-white patches are clouds. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] at NASA GSFC
Flooding on the Ohio and Mis …
Title Flooding on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
Description In mid-May 2002, heavy rains gave rise to floods all across the midwestern United States, killing 8 people and forcing many more from their homes. This false-color image shows the junction of the Ohio River and the Mississippi River where the flooding was at its worst. The image was acquired by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA?s Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] spacecraft. The Mississippi River rose up to 12 feet above flood stage in the area shown here. Southeast Missouri and northern Arkansas, which are west of the great river, felt the brunt of the floods. Altogether, more than 50 counties in the state of Missouri reported flood damage. Farther north in Illinois, Gov. George Ryan declared the entire state a natural disaster area. Severe floods also occurred to the east in Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana. Normally, all the rivers in this image would resemble thin black lines (left image). Though skies in the region are clear now, thunderstorms are forecast for later this week, and heavy rains could lead to continued flooding. In this false-color image, green shows land surface and black is water. The pinkish-white patches are clouds. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] at NASA GSFC
Flooding on the Ohio and Mis …
Title Flooding on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
Description In mid-May 2002, heavy rains gave rise to floods all across the midwestern United States, killing 8 people and forcing many more from their homes. This false-color image shows the junction of the Ohio River and the Mississippi River where the flooding was at its worst. The image was acquired by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA?s Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] spacecraft. The Mississippi River rose up to 12 feet above flood stage in the area shown here. Southeast Missouri and northern Arkansas, which are west of the great river, felt the brunt of the floods. Altogether, more than 50 counties in the state of Missouri reported flood damage. Farther north in Illinois, Gov. George Ryan declared the entire state a natural disaster area. Severe floods also occurred to the east in Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana. Normally, all the rivers in this image would resemble thin black lines (left image). Though skies in the region are clear now, thunderstorms are forecast for later this week, and heavy rains could lead to continued flooding. In this false-color image, green shows land surface and black is water. The pinkish-white patches are clouds. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] at NASA GSFC
Floods Across the Southeaste …
Title Floods Across the Southeastern United States
Description A bulge of water fills the Tennessee River at the point where the river turns north and enters Tennessee after flowing through Alabama. The river was swollen on December 12, 2004, after several days of heavy rain in the southeastern United States. The effects of the rain are visible in other rivers and lakes across the region. Mississippi's Sardis and Enid Lakes and Yacona River were all much fuller than normal on December 12, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite acquired the top image. Smudges of blue along the White River in Arkansas also reveal flooding. Images courtesy MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. Both the December 12 and December 3 images are available in multiple resolutions up to MODIS? maximum resolution of 250 meters per pixel.
Floods Across the Southeaste …
Title Floods Across the Southeastern United States
Description A bulge of water fills the Tennessee River at the point where the river turns north and enters Tennessee after flowing through Alabama. The river was swollen on December 12, 2004, after several days of heavy rain in the southeastern United States. The effects of the rain are visible in other rivers and lakes across the region. Mississippi's Sardis and Enid Lakes and Yacona River were all much fuller than normal on December 12, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite acquired the top image. Smudges of blue along the White River in Arkansas also reveal flooding. Images courtesy MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. Both the December 12 and December 3 images are available in multiple resolutions up to MODIS? maximum resolution of 250 meters per pixel.
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April Showers Bring May Flow …
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