NASA looks at rare Arabian Sea tropical cyclone in 3-D
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - 16:30
in Earth & Climate
Tropical cyclones are not too common in the Arabian Sea, but tropical cyclone 01A, now renamed Ashobaa, formed this week. NASA/JAXA's Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM core satellite flew over Ashobaa and gathered data that provided a 3-D look at the rainfall in the storm.