Hurricane Nicole’s Cold Water Wake - related image preview

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Hurricane Nicole’s Cold Water Wake - related image preview

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Hurricane Nicole’s Cold Water Wake

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


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

Source:
GCOM-W1 > AMSR-2