Image: Comparison between Haiyan and Katrina

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Description: Regarding the size of and very cold cloud-top IR brightness temperatures seen with Typhoon Haiyan, the IR images (courtesy of Rick Kohrs, SSEC) show a side-by-side comparison with Hurricane Katrina. Haiyan has been artificially superimposed at the same location over the Gulf of Mexico. Note the significantly colder cloud-top IR brightness temperatures associated with Haiyan (-80 to -89 ºC, violet colors), due to its location in the tropics (near 10 ºN latitude) where the tropopause was much higher and much colder.
Title: Comparison between Haiyan and Katrina
Credit: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/14311
Author: Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
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