NASA compiles Typhoon Bopha's Philippines Rainfall totals from space
Thursday, December 6, 2012 - 15:40
in Earth & Climate
NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite can estimate rainfall rates from its orbit in space, and its data is also used to compile estimated rainfall totals. NASA just released an image showing those rainfall totals over the Philippines, where severe flooding killed several hundred people. Bopha is now a tropical storm in the South China Sea.