Myanmar’s Delta: Water World

BobbyDelray

5-7-2008 8:17 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/419fe9fa-36cb-4165-b076-0178b39895b6/41D1C761-2547-4ED9-A1BC-890186D52115/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/myanmars-delta-water-world/" href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/myanmars-delta-water-world/" style="font-size: 11px;">dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/myanmars-delta-water-world/"><P>The team managing the data flowing from instruments on NASA’s Terra satellite has posted a pair of images of the <A href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/nargis_floods.html">Irrawaddy River delta in Myanmar</A> before and after Cyclone Nargis struck, showing vividly the amount of land that was submerged. Our <A href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/myanmar/cyclone_nargis/index.html">package of cyclone coverage</A> is being updated continually by Seth Mydans, Tom Fuller, and contributors from South Asia. These images provide the view from on high.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/myanmars-delta-water-world/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/img/99BE6FAC-22BB-4149-B47B-2A593638648E" alt="Myanmar before and after Nargis" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/myanmars-delta-water-world/"><SPAN class="caption">Images of the Irrawaddy River delta before and after the cyclone. (Credit: NASA/MODIS Rapid Response Team)</SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/41D1C761-2547-4ED9-A1BC-890186D52115/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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myanmar, delta, flood

BobbyDelray says:

On April 15, rivers and lakes are sharply defined against a backdrop of vegetation and fallow agricultural land…. The wetlands near the shore are a deep blue green. Cyclone Nargis came ashore across the mouths of the Irrawaddy and followed the coastline northeast. The entire coastal plain is flooded in the May 5 image.