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Typhoon Nari
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Typhoon Nari |
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Typhoon Nari formed as a tropical storm near Okinawa on September 12, reaching typhoon strength the next day. The typhoon was forecast to swing through the East China Sea and bring stormy seas and rain to China, the Korean Peninsula, and Japan. By late in the day September 14, Nari had reached Category 4, [ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshs.shtml ] "Super Typhoon" status, with peak winds measured at 220 kilometers per hour (135 miles per hour). However, the typhoon was out at sea, and forecasts were calling for it to lose most of its strength well before coming ashore in Japan. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite acquired this photo-like image at 10:50 a.m. local time (01:50 UTC) on September 14, 2007. Typhoon Nari appears here as a ball of circling clouds with a distinct, though cloudy, eye at its center. According to Unisys Weather, [ http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/ ] Nari had peak winds of around 120 km/hr (65 mph), and it was classified a Category 1 typhoon. You can download a 250-meter-resolution KMZ file of Typhoon Nari [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Sep2007/nari_tmo_2007257.kmz ] suitable for use with Google Earth. [ http://earth.google.com/ ] 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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Typhoon Nari
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Typhoon Nari |
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Typhoon Nari was a compact, but powerful storm as it churned north over the East China Sea toward Korea in mid-September 2007. The storm came ashore over South Korea as a Category 2 storm on September 16, causing at least one death and stranding some 15,000 travelers on the South Korean island of Jeju, reported Agence France-Presse. Nari was a far more powerful Category 4 storm, with winds of 220 kilometers per hour (140 miles per hour or 120 knots), on September 15, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured this photo-like image. The more powerful a tropical cyclone is, the more distinct and symmetrical its shape. At Category 4 strength, Nari was very "tidy" with well-organized bands of clouds tightly wound around a distinct eye in a near-perfect circle. The high-resolution image provided above is at MODIS' full spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions. [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2007258-0915/Nari.A2007258.0235 ] You can download a 250-meter-resolution KMZ file of Typhoon Nari [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Sep2007/Nari.A2007258.0235.250m.kmz ] suitable for use with Google Earth. [ http://earth.google.com/ ] NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center. |
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Typhoon Nari: Natural Hazard
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Typhoon Nari formed as a tro
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nari_tmo_2007257
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2007-09-14 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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nari_tmo_2007257 |
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Typhoon Nari: Natural Hazard
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Typhoon Nari was a compact,
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nari_tmo_2007258
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2007-09-15 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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nari_tmo_2007258 |
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