These images show heavy rainfall near the coast of the Bay of Bengal observed by the Precipitation Radar (PR) aboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite from 1:29 to 1:32 on Aug. 29, 2001 (UTC). Left figure shows the horizontal cross section of rain at 2.0 km height, and right shows the vertical cross section of along the line AB in left figure. It is observed that heavy rainfall near the coast of Bangladesh and Myanmar.
In 2000, these were many disasters caused by Asian summer monsoon in these regions. From the end of August to October in 2001, anomalous high tides over the Bay of Bengal due to the monsoon rainfall occurred frequently, and caused deluges over the islands and coasts of Bangladesh.
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