From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Wed Jan 01 2003 - 10:00:15 PST
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Subject: [nh-announce] 31 December 2002 -- Natural Hazards Updates
The following sections were updated since 30 December 2002.
-- DUST AND SMOKE (2 updated events, 2 new images) --
POLLUTION OVER CHINA
A thick gray haze blankets most of central eastern China on New Year's Eve, 2002.
* http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=5312
*** SeaWiFS(OrbView-2) image from Dec 31 2002 (Posted on Dec 31 2002)
POLLUTION OVER BANGLADESH AND INDIA
A thick grayish layer of smog and smoke hovered over northern India and Bangladesh, and was blowing out over the Bay of Bengal on Dec. 31, 2002.
* http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=5313
*** MODIS(Terra) image from Dec 30 2002 (Posted on Dec 31 2002)
-- STORM (2 updated events, 4 new images) --
TROPICAL CYCLONE 08S
Tropical Cyclone 08S formed in the Mozambique Channel today and is predicted to make landfall in Mozambique early on Jan. 1, 2003.
* http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=5315
*** MODIS(Terra) image from Dec 31 2002 (Posted on Dec 31 2002)
TROPICAL CYCLONE ZOE
As of December 30, 2002, Tropical Cyclone Zoe was listed as a Category 5 storm, located northeast of Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean.
* http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=5311
*** MODIS(Terra) image from Dec 29 2002 (Posted on Dec 30 2002 3:47PM)
* http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=5310
*** MODIS(Aqua) image from Dec 29 2002 (Posted on Dec 30 2002)
* http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=5309
*** MODIS(Terra) image from Dec 27 2002 (Posted on Dec 30 2002)
-- VOLCANO (2 updated events, 2 new images) --
ERUPTION OF SICILY’S MT. ETNA
Sicily's Mt. Etna began erupting on Oct. 27, and two months later is still emitting a plume of ash and smoke. This most recent MODIS image was captured on Dec. 30.
* http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=5316
*** MODIS(Terra) image from Dec 30 2002 (Posted on Dec 31 2002)
ERUPTION OF STROMBOLI VOLCANO, ITALY
The Stromboli Volcano, Italy, has been increasingly active since May 2002. On Dec. 28, 2002, a lava flow emerged from a crater on the volcano's northeast crater, while a relatively small plume of ash and steam is seen flowing from fissure.
* http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=5314
*** MODIS(Aqua) image from Dec 31 2002 (Posted on Dec 31 2002)
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