NASA's triple examination of Typhoon Dolphin

Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - 13:00 in Earth & Climate

Three different platforms have been examining Typhoon Dolphin as it moves through the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. The RapidScat instrument saw Dolphin's winds intensify over May 16 and 17, the Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM core observatory estimated the drenching rainfall Dolphin dropped over Guam and Rota, and the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite provided a look at the storm's structure as it was passing just west of Iwo To (island), Japan on May 19. Dolphin had weakened to a tropical storm mid-day on May 19 and is becoming extra-tropical.

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