Taking the Temperature of the Hurricane Pool

Satellite measurements of sea surface temperatures provide clues to the potential for tropical cyclone development.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using AMSR2 data from Chelle Gentemann and Frank Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published June 4, 2014
Data acquired June 1, 2014

Source:

GCOM-W1 > AMSR-2