COLLECTION NAME:
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio Collection
Record
Title:
TRMM Biomass Burning: Smoke Inhibits Rainfall Cloud Cover with Fires March 1, 1998
Instrument:
TRMM/PR
Description:
Slate indicating fire color for biomass burning
Abstract:
Smoke from forest fires has, for the first time, been proven to inhibit rainfall, according to an extensive analysis of data taken from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) spacecraft.
Completed:
1999-09-01
Credit:
*Please give credit for this visualization to* NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Studio:
SVS
Animator:
Greg Shirah (Lead)
Scientist:
Daniel Rosenfeld (Hebrew University)
Science paper:
D. Rosenfeld, TRMM observed first direct evidence of smoke from forest fires inhibiting rainfall, Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 1999, 3105-3108
Series:
Smoke Inhibits Rainfall
Data Collected:
1998/03/01
Keywords:
Atmospheric science
Video:
SVS1999-0025* * *
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_when:
March 1, 1998
facet_what:
Earth
facet_when_year:
1998
Animation Number:
748
UID:
SPD-SCIVS-http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a000700/a000748/colorbar-IMAGE