2022 Hurricane Season

  • Released Wednesday, April 19, 2023
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2022 Atlantic hurricane season.

This visualization shows the hurricanes and tropical storms of 2022 as seen by NASA’s Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) - a data product combining precipitation observations from infrared and microwave satellite sensors united by the GPM Core Observatory. IMERG provides near real-time half-hourly precipitation estimates at ~10km resolution for the entire globe, helping researchers better understand Earth’s water cycle and extreme weather events, with applications for disaster management, tracking disease, resource management, energy production and food security. IMERG rain rates (in mm/hr) are laid under infrared cloud data from the NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC) Cloud Composite dataset together with storm tracks from the NOAA National Hurricane Center (NHC) Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecasting (ATCF) model. Sea surface temperatures (SST) are also shown over the oceans, derived from the NASA Multi-sensor Ultra-high Resolution (MUR) dataset, which combines data from multiple geostationary and orbiting satellites. Sea surface temperatures play an important role in hurricane formation and development, with warmer temperatures linked to more intense storms.

2022 Hurricane Season zoomed in to focus more on the Atlantic.

Color bar for frozen precipitation rates (ie, snow rates). Shades of cyan represent low amounts of frozen precipitation, whereas shades of purple represent high amounts of precipitation.

Color bar for frozen precipitation rates (ie, snow rates). Shades of cyan represent low amounts of frozen precipitation, whereas shades of purple represent high amounts of precipitation.

Color bar for liquid precipitation rates (ie, rain rates). Shades of green represent low amounts of liquid precipitation, whereas shades of red represent high amounts of precipitation.

Color bar for liquid precipitation rates (ie, rain rates). Shades of green represent low amounts of liquid precipitation, whereas shades of red represent high amounts of precipitation.

Sea Surface Temperature (SST) colorbar focusing primarily on temperatures between 20 degrees Celsius to 30 Celsius. Hurricanes tend to form over the warm tropical oceans where the SST is warmer than ~26.5 C (~80 F) depicted in colors from yellow to red.

Sea Surface Temperature (SST) colorbar focusing primarily on temperatures between 20 degrees Celsius to 30 Celsius. Hurricanes tend to form over the warm tropical oceans where the SST is warmer than ~26.5 C (~80 F) depicted in colors from yellow to red.

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Storm tracks and strengths courtesy of NOAA's National Weather Service.

Blue Marble MODIS data composite courtesy of the MODIS Science Team NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the NASA Earth Observatory.

This page was originally published on Wednesday, April 19, 2023.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 12:20 AM EST.

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