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Credit & Copyright: M. R. Radcliff
(USRA)
et al.,
NASA's
GSFC,
SVS;
Music: Elapsing Time by
C. Telford &
R. A. Navarro
(ASCAP)
Explanation:
Where do hurricanes go?
To better understand dangerous storms, NASA compiled data from several satellites
into a
supercomputer simulation of this past year's hurricane season.
Specifically, the
featured video shows how smoke (white),
sea salt (blue), and dust (brown)
tracked
from 2017 August through October across the northern half of Earth's
Western Hemisphere.
These aerosols usefully trace
sometimes invisible winds.
In the midst of the many
mesmerizing flows,
hurricanes can be seen swirling across the
Atlantic Ocean on the
right.
Some of
these
hurricanes lashed
islands
and
coastal regions in North America before dissipating in the northern Atlantic.
Studying this year's weather patterns may bolster more accurate
storm forecasts as soon as next year.
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