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July 1, 2008

Filed under: Retired Hurricanes — admin @ 11:06 am

 

Hurricane DeanHurricane Dean, who slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula as a mighty Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale and moved into the Gulf of Campeche to make a second landfall in Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane last week, is now a bad memory.

This is a series of infrared images of Hurricane Dean from August 17-23, created by data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder on NASA’s Aqua satellite. These AIRS images show the temperature of the cloud tops or the surface of the Earth in cloud-free regions. The lowest temperatures (in purple) are associated with high, cold cloud tops that make up the top of the hurricane. The infrared signal does not penetrate through clouds. Where there are no clouds the AIRS instrument reads the infrared signal from the surface of the Earth, revealing warmer temperatures (red). This infrared image shows large areas of strong convection surrounding the core of the storm (in purple).

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