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Storm surges Hurricane Katrina

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Exercise 1: Spiraling Hurricane Katrina from cloud tops to ocean waves - continued

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Relationship between greyscale of radar images and backscattering of different targets

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Storm surges

Hurricane Katrina

Exercises

Exercise 1: Spiraling Hurricane Katrina from cloud tops to ocean waves Exercise 2: Visualising and examining flooded areas in New Orleans caused by Hurricane Katrina

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Hurricane Katrina - NOAA Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia National Hurricane Center - NOAA Storm surge overview - NOAA Global Monitoring for Environment and Security - ESA International Charter Space and Major Disasters Tropical weather and hurricanes - Physicalgeography

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