Image:Saomaitrmm.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikimedia Commons logo This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below.
Commons is attempting to create a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

Summary

Description

Typhoon Saomai formed on August 4, 2006, as a tropical depression. Within a day, it had become organized enough to be classified as a tropical storm and earn a name: Saomai, which is the Vietnamese name for the planet Venus. The storm continued to gather strength, becoming a typhoon on August 6. At 5:25 p.m. local time (9:25 UTC) on August 10, it came ashore in China’s Zhejiang province as a Category 4 super typhoon, making it the eighth storm to come ashore in China in 2006. The storm was one of the most powerful storms to hit China in the past fifty years, according to the Xinhua news agency. Large-scale evacuations before the storm struck have displaced hundreds of thousands of people, and more than 1,000 homes have been destroyed.

This image was made from data acquired by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite (TRMM) at 1:58 p.m. local time (05:58 UTC) on August 10, 2006, as Saomai was only hours from making landfall. The image shows the rain intensity within Typhoon Saomai. Rain rates in the centre swath are from the TRMM Precipitation Radar, and rain rates in the outer swath are from the TRMM Microwave Imager. The rain rates are overlaid on infrared data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner. The rain field was fairly compact, and patches of intense rain (red) occurred along the eyewall.

At the time of this image, Saomai was a super typhoon rated as a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson intensity scale, having eased off its earlier Category 5 power. As the storm was about to come ashore, the maximum sustained winds were reported to be around 240 kilometers per hour (150 miles per hour), according to the University of Hawaii’s Tropical Storm Information Centre.

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite was placed into service in November of 1997. From its low-earth orbit, TRMM has been providing valuable images and information on storm systems around the tropics using a combination of passive microwave and active radar sensors, including the first precipitation radar in space. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency, JAXA.
Source

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13772
Date

2006-08-10
Author

Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC)
Permission
Public domain This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". ( NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy).

Warnings:

  • Use of NASA logos (which include the current "meatball" logo, the old "worm" logo, and the seal) is restricted.
  • The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/ Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not in the public domain.
  • Materials from the Hubble Space Telescope may be copyrighted if they do not explicitly come from the STScI.
  • All materials created by the SOHO probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use.
  • Images featured on the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) web site may be copyrighted.

The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed):
  • Typhoon Saomai

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified image.

Width 1024
Height 1024
Compression scheme Uncompressed
Pixel composition RGB
Orientation Normal
Number of components 3
Horizontal resolution 72 dpi
Vertical resolution 72 dpi
Data arrangement chunky format
Software used Adobe Photoshop CS2 Macintosh
File change date and time 16:12, 10 August 2006
Colour space 65535
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Saomaitrmm.jpg"