08.10.09 - Typhoon Morakot Dumps Record Rainfall
Typhoon Morakot began development as a tropical depression on August 03 at 18Z located southwest of Taiwan at approximately 21.2 N, 135.9 E. The storm hit Taiwan on August 7th and seemed to slightly stall over a two-day period, dumping over 80 inches of rain. On August 08, the highest amount of...
   
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04.14.09 - False Color Merged IR Visualization now available!
With a web browser and few mouse clicks, users can produce visualizations for all 8 years and 4.5 TB of Merged IR Brightness Temperature data and generate False Color IR imagery and animation without downloading any software and data.
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03.26.09 - Merged IR animations of March 1st East Coast snowstorm
The GES DISC Hurricane Data Analysis Tool can view many other types of weather events than hurricanes. The tool was used to create animated images of the strong late winter snowstorm which affected the U.S. East Coast on March 1-2, 2009.
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02.23.09 - Merged IR data animation of February 10 tornado-spawning Oklahoma storms
The Hurricane Data Analysis Tool provided an impressive view of a tornado-spawning storm event over Oklahoma and Texas on February 10, 2009.
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12.11.08 - 2008 Fall AGU Meeting: Decision-Making and Education Presentations
The GES DISC has created data tools and data systems that are useful for scientists, but they are also useful for critical decision-making, particularly regarding climate, and for both formal and informal education. Those are the subjects of four presentations at the 2008 Fall AGU Meeting.
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12.05.08 - 2008 Fall AGU Meeting: Climate, Models, and Oceans Presentations
30 years of meteorological data; 6 years of AIRS data; a new system for 8 years of IR data from geostationary satellites, 11 years of ocean color data over the Chesapeake Bay - the GES DISC has tools and data to study climate, to be described at the Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco.
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11.04.08 - Hurricane Data Analysis Tool: Global Merged IR Dataset Added
Scientists, students, and applications users seeking on-the-fly visualizations of hurricane-related satellite and model data can now visualize and get access to the NCEP/CPC 4-km Global Merged IR Brightness Temperature dataset, through the GES DISC Hurricane Data Analysis tool.
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09.25.08 - TOVAS Giovanni adds products to new interface
Several TRMM data products have been added to the new TOVAS instances as part of the transitional phase between the predecessor TOVAS and the current Giovanni system.
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09.09.08 - Ike Moves Over Cuba, Heads to the Gulf
As of 2:00 pm EST September 9th, Hurricane Ike has a forward speed to 12 mph heading in the West/Northwest direction with a wind speed of 75 mph and is located at approximately 22.7N, 83.4W with a central pressure of 970 mb. Hurricane Ike headed to Cuba as a category 3 storm initially and has w...
   
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09.03.08 - Precipitation Animation of Hurricane Gustav and The Tropical Atlantic Region
Animations were created using the TRMM 3B42RT data of the Accumulated Rainfall parameter using the GES DISC TRMM Online Visualization and Analysis System (TOVAS)(http://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/Giovanni/tovas/), which contains TRMM rainfall products, near-real-time 3-hourly, Multi-Satellite Precip...
 
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