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Dissecting Typhoon Utor

In a rare, perfectly centered overpass, CloudSat captured a vertical profile of Super Typhoon Utor as the storm approached the Philippines on August 11, 2013.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using CloudSat FirstLook data provided courtesy of the CloudSat team at Colorado State University. Caption by Natalie D. Tourville and Holli Riebeek.

Published August 31, 2013
Data acquired August 21, 2013

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
CloudSat > CPR