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Tropically Speaking, NASA Investigates Precipitation Shapes, Sizes for Severity
Description: NASA researchers are going to get a look at just how the shape of precipitation influence severe storm weather. To do it, they'll have to look inside the guts of some of the world's fiercest storms. NASA has assembled a team of hurricane scientists from across the country to carry out high-altitude-aircraft surveillance to explore in detail how storms form, intensify and dissipate. [Source: NASA Earth Observatory]
URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=45386
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Source: NASA Earth Observatory
Publish Date: 8/16/2010
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