NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite can estimate rainfall rates from its orbit in space, and its data is also used to compile estimated rainfall totals. NASA just released an image showing those ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 6, 2012
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Within a week's time, the northern Philippines were hit by two tropical cyclones that left behind more than 42 inches of rainfall to various areas, and NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite captured those measurements ...
Earth Sciences
May 11, 2009
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Tropical Storm Daphne has become an extra-tropical storm and is fading fast in the South Pacific Ocean, but not before making its mark on the Fuji Islands. NASA's TRMM satellite compiled rainfall data that revealed flooding ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 4, 2012
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(Phys.org)—An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from the effects of a megadrought that began in 2005, finds a new NASA-led study. These results, together with observed recurrences ...
Environment
Jan 18, 2013
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The first tropical depression in the Eastern Pacific Ocean is now the first tropical storm, and two satellites are providing NASA insights into its thunderstorms, rainfall, and intensity. NASA satellite data on newly born ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 8, 2011
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NASA found heavy rainfall occurring in Tropical Cyclone Carlos as it continued to move between Madagascar and La Reunion Island in the Southern Indian Ocean. NASA's Terra satellite imagery revealed a concentrated storm, while ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 8, 2017
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The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite estimates rainfall from space and has provided NASA and other scientists with a visual tool to see just how much Tropical Storm Hermine has drenched Texas with since it made ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2010
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Research by U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists and partners suggests that the expansion of rosebay rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum) in Southern Appalachian mountain hollows may increase the ...
Ecology
Aug 31, 2009
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Hurricane Maria hit the island of Puerto Rico on 20 September 2017 and triggered more than 40,000 landslides in at least three-fourths of Puerto Rico's 78 municipalities. In a new article from GSA Today, authors Erin Bessette-Kirton ...
Environment
Feb 7, 2019
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The very first tropical cyclone of the Southern Indian Ocean season has been born, and NASA's TRMM satellite captured an image of its rainfall.
Earth Sciences
Oct 12, 2012
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