Hurricane Nicole’s Cold Water Wake

Hurricanes feed off of warm ocean surfaces, consuming the heat and dragging up cool water from below.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using MWIROI-SST data from Frank Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems. Caption by Pola Lem.

Published October 19, 2016
Data acquired October 16, 2016

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GCOM-W1 > AMSR-2