NASA Microwave Image Reveals Strong T-Storms in Choi-Wan (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Microwave Image Reveals Strong T-Storms in Choi-Wan

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NASA's Aqua satellite AIRS and AMSU instrument data created a microwave image of Choi-Wan on September 13 at 2:11 p.m. EDT. The cold areas in this image (yellow-green) that stretch from right center, left of the small chain of islands, indicate where there is precipitation or ice in the cloud tops. The purple area (far right) has the coldest cloud temperatures to -63F and suggests cloud heights to the 200 millibar level, near the tropopause.

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NASA JPL, Ed Olsen

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