NASA's 3-D Look at Typhoon Mawar (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA's 3-D Look at Typhoon Mawar

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TRMM data showed Mawar was producing a very large area of rainfall southeast of Japan on June 5, 2012. Most of Mawar's heavy rainfall is revealed by TRMM to be north of the dissipating tropical cyclone's center. The most intense surface rainfall of over 40mm/hr (~1.6 inches) was shown northeast of the center. Much of Mawar's southwestern side was shown becoming rain free. This 3-D image shows that Mawar no longer had an eye wall. Storms near Mawar's center of circulation were reaching to heights of only about 10km (~6.2 miles). The highest storm towers of over 11km (~6.8 miles) were located in a band far to the northwest of Mawar's center.

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NASA/SSAI, Hal Pierce

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