Minimize Typhoon Fitow (Pacific Ocean) - September 2007

5 September 2007 (from AFP) - Typhoon Fitow, packing winds of up to 108 kilometres an hour near its centre, was in the Pacific Ocean hundreds of kilometres south of Tokyo on Wednesday morning and was forecast to reach Tokyo or its vicinity by early Friday. The storm was moving north at 15 kilometres an hour.

Envisat view of Typhoon Fitow

Typhoon Fitow in the vicinity of Japan's southern coast.

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Technical Information
Product: MERIS_RR_1P (1200 metre resolution)
Satellite: Envisat
Instrument: Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS)
Date of acquisition: 05 Sep 2007
Orbit: 28828
Orbit direction: Descending
Band combination: 11, 14, 3 (RGB)
NOAA advisory
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