TD9

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) expects Tropical Depression Nine to intensify over the next day or so. Vertical wind shear is predicted to be low and the tropical depression is moving over warmer water. Both of these factors will provide fuel for intensification. The GPM core observatory satellite scanned the tropical depression on August 31, 2016 at 2:46 AM EDT (0646 UTC). GPM's Microwave Imager (GMI) and Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) instruments saw heavy rainfall in strong convective storms in the Gulf Of Mexico northwest of Cuba. GPM's DPR found that some of these intense

The frequency of tropical cyclone formation has definitely increased in the Atlantic Ocean basin. A tropical wave that the National Hurricane Center (NHC) had been monitoring for development since it left the African coast almost two weeks ago was upgraded to Tropical Depression Nine (TD09L) on August 28, 2016. The low pressure became a little better organized after moving into the Florida Strait and that led to the upgrade. The GPM core observatory satellite passed above the still relatively poorly organized tropical depression on August 29, 2016 at 2:56 AM EDT (0656 UTC). Maximum sustained

Tropical cyclone development has been relatively slow in the Atlantic Ocean in 2015 with tropical depression Nine (TD9) forming today in the central tropical Atlantic. GPM's Microwave Imager (GMI) and Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) instruments collected data today at 1016 UTC (6:16 AM EDT). Data from that pass were used to show the three dimensional (3-D) extent of TD9's rainfall. GPM's 3-D DPR (Ku Band) found that the tallest convective thunderstorms within TD9 were reaching heights of about 14.9 km (9.2 miles) in a feeder band southeast of TD9's center of circulation. The most