Hurricane Isabel: Under the Hood (PR and AMSU only)

  • Released Wednesday, September 8, 2004
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This visualization is an inset from animation 2996. It shows how the distribution of Hurricane Isabel's rainfall (circular sturctures below) and heat inside the storm (oblong structures above) fluctuated dramatically as the storm changed intensities. The warm core of the hurricane was the engine that drove the storm, allowing it to draw up energy from the ocean, gathering strength and size.

Hurricane Isabel's rain rates and warm core

Hurricane Isabels structure as a category 4

Hurricane Isabels structure as a category 4

Hurricane Isabels structure as a category 5

Hurricane Isabels structure as a category 5

Hurricane Isabels structure as a category 2

Hurricane Isabels structure as a category 2

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Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
Additional credits for providing AMSU data should go to Chris Velden (University of Wisconsin)

This page was originally published on Wednesday, September 8, 2004.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.

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