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Fires in New Guinea
Title Fires in New Guinea
Description On October 22, 2003, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite captured this image of the island of New Guinea. This image is focused on the western part of the island, which is the Irian Jaya region of Indonesia. (The eastern part of the island is the country of Papua New Guinea.) Numerous fires burned across the southern part of the island, they were detected by MODIS and are marked with red dots in this image. Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
Torrential Rains in Indonesi …
Title Torrential Rains in Indonesia
Description Heavy rains dumped a foot or more of water over several Indonesian island regions during March 29-April 1. The image graphically portrays heavy rain accumulations particularly over and offshore of Papua New Guinea and over the easternmost islands of Flores and Timor in Jakarta. The accumulation map was created using a technique that combines rainfall information from a number of NASA and DoD satellites. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) satellite plays a key role in mapping the rain. The heavy rains occurred sporadically in the form of intense clusters of thunderstorms, embedded within the larger Winter Asian Monsoon circulation, and modulated by the passage of an atmospheric wave called the tropical intraseasonal oscillation. The very localized but extreme rain amounts over the island of Flores resulted in violent landslides that killed 23 people. *animations* ÿÿsmall [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Apr2003/new_guinea_small.qt ] (656 KB) ÿÿlarge [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Apr2003/new_guinea.qt ] (3.3 MB) This image was created by Hal Pierce of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. More information on TRMM can be found at trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov
Fires on Cape York Peninsula …
Title Fires on Cape York Peninsula and New Guinea
Description Across the lowlands of southern New Guinea, numerous fires (marked in red) were burning on October 11, 2004, when this image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite. The island is occupied by two different nations: the western (left) half by the Indonesian territory of Irian Jaya and the eastern (right) half by Papua New Guinea. The image is roughly centered on the boundary between the two, and fires are burning across both countries. Both countries are struggling to control illegal logging. The Website of the Food and Agriculture Organization [ http://www.fao.org/forestry/foris/webview/forestry2/index.jsp?siteId=5081&sitetreeId=18927&langId=1&geoId=0 ] of the United Nations reports that some estimates suggest that 40 to 60 percent of the industrial roundwood in Indonesia is not legally harvested. In Papua New Guinea, logging continues, despite an official ban on logging exports, according to information from the U.S. State Department. [ http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2797.htm ] Whether these particular fires are related to illegal logging is unknown, but often fire is used by timber operators and tree plantation owners to degrade undisturbed rainforest in the hopes of gaining concessions to the land. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the MODIS Rapid Response team.
Flooding Starts to Break Que …
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The east coast of Australia …
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Forest Change on New Ireland …
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Forest Change on New Ireland …
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Forest Change on New Ireland …
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Forest Change on New Ireland …
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Fires on New Guinea: Natural …
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New Guinea sits between the …
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Patterns of El Nino: Image o …
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Patterns of El Nino: Image o …
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El Nino -- the periodic weak …
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Fires in New Guinea: Natural …
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On October 22, 2003, the mod …
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Fires on Cape York Peninsula …
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Across the lowlands of south …
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Torrential Rains in Indonesi …
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Heavy rains dumped a foot or …
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