TRMM TMI Quick Look Images, subsetted at Dartmouth from global mosaics prepared by Chris Kidd, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center

Comments:

TRMM TMI data show heavy rain over central coastal Vietnam on December 1st through the 3rd. The central provinces had just begun to recover from the devasting floods of November (see DFO 1999086) when a cold spell dumped more than 65 centimeters of water in the region over three days. The renewed flooding destroyed thousands of hectares of newly planted rice fields and inundated tens of thousands of homes. The area of flooding was farther south of the previous months floods, from Thua Thien Hue province to Khanh Hoa province. Flood waters began to recede by December 8.

In these images:

Rainfall and snowfall: yellow and white areas (yellowish white is highest intensity precipitation)

Oceans: light blue (low water vapour) to dark blue (high water vapour)

More information: http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/quicklook/

11/29/99	11/30/99	12/01/99	12/02/99	12/03/99	12/04/99	12/05/99

DFO Homepage