09.04.08 - HIRDLS Version 004 Atmospheric Products Now Released (Aug 4, 2008)
The version 4 of level 2 HIRDLS Product 'HIRDLS2 version 2.04.19)' is now available. At this time, Temperature, O3, HNO3, CFC-11, CFC-12, Cloudtop Pressure and Aerosol Extinction are available. For more information please see the link below.
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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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09.02.08 - High Point Of The Season Proves To Be Active!
As Gustav becomes a tropical depression all eyes turn now to an extremely busy Atlantic region. As high time has come upon us for the hurricane season, storms develop across the Atlantic region just north of the ITCZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone). As of 11:00 am EST we have 3 named storms st...
  
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09.02.08 - MergedIR Animation Shows the Atlantic Storms Movement
An animation created using the Merged IR data which is a Globally-merged (60N-60S) pixel-resolution IR brightness temperature data (equivalent blackbody temps), merged from all available geostationary satellites (GOES-8/10, METEOSAT-7/5 & GMS). The data is available by ftp from the GES DISC (ht...
  
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09.02.08 - GES DISC participation in the NEESPI Regional Non-boreal Europe Meeting
Suhung Shen gave an presentation entitled The NASA NEESPI Data Portal to Support Studies of Climate and Environmental Changes in Non-boreal Europe ( http://neespi.org/web-content/meetings/Odessa_2008/Day_3_9_Shen.pdf) on NATO Advanced Research Workshop Regional aspects of climate-terrestrial-hy...
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09.01.08 - Gustav Makes Landfall and a New Storm Forms!
Hurricane Gustav makes Landfall this morning as a category 2 storm in Cocodrie, Louisiana. At around 11:00 am EST, Hurricane Gustav is continuely moving Northwest at 15 mph with a wind speed of 110 mph.The storm is located around 29.2 N, 90.8 W, with a pressure of 957 mb.
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08.31.08 - Gustav Gets Closer to Land
As of this evening, around 10:54 pm EST, Hurricane Gustav is continuely moving towards the Louisiana coast at 16 mph in a NW direction with a wind speed of 115 mph and is located around 27.3 N, 88.1 W. It has increased slightly in pressure to 954 mb and the storm is starting to slow down as is ...
  
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08.28.08 - Tropical Storm Gustav Threatens Coast and New Storm Gets Named Hanna
As of this afternoon, around 2pm EST, Tropical Storm Gustav increased movement to the West slightly to 5mph maintaining wind speed of 70 mph and is located around 17.9 N, 76.2 W. Gustav is expected to soon reach hurricane strength again once it begins movement over the warmer gulf waters. As it...
  
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08.21.08 - Fay Slowly Moves, Dumping Rain on Florida
As of this afternoon, around 2pm EST, Tropical Storm Fay increased wind speeds slightly to 60 mph and is located around 29.4 N, 80.8 W. The system is moving ever so slowly to the West/Northwest back to dumping more precipitation on the East and central area's of Florida. Tropical Strom Fay is m...
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08.20.08 - Where will Fay go?
As of this afternoon, around 2pm EST, Tropical Storm Fay was maintaining wind speeds of 50 mph located around 28.6N 80.6 W. Still over Florida, evident by the image seen below, Fay had been dumping much less precipitation on Florida as the days previous. Most of the rainfall now falls to the No...
  
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