Atlantic Heat Source for Hurricane Irene - related image preview

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Atlantic Heat Source for Hurricane Irene - related image preview

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Atlantic Heat Source for Hurricane Irene

Plenty of warm-water fuel waits in the Atlantic Basin for Hurricane Irene and other tropical storms to build themselves up in August 2011.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using merged AMSR-E/MODIS data processed and provided by Chelle Gentemann and Frank Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published August 25, 2011
Data acquired August 24, 2011

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Aqua > AMSR-E