Rain Gauges at IFloodS
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A cluster of rain gauges and soil moisture sensors deployed in Iowa during the IFloodS campaign.
Ground Validation
IFloodS Observes Severe Storm Outbreak
Development of low storm clouds in the atmospheric mixing layer over the NPOL and D3R radars on June 12, 2013 at ~12:00 p.m. CDT.Credit: Walt Petersen /NASA .
NPOL and D3R Radars at IFloodS
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The NASA NPOL (left) and D3R (right) precipitation radars deployed south of Waterloo, Iowa, for the Iowa Flood Studies ground measurement campaign.
IFloods Setup
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NASA and Iowa Flood Center staff install instrumentation in eastern Iowa for the IFloodS campaign.
2013 PMM Science Team Meeting
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03/20/2013
The NASA Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM) Science Team for the TRMM and GPM missions met on March 18-21, 2013 in Annapolis, MD. This meeting included oral, poster, and evening working group sessions covering mission/program status, algorithm development activities, international partner reports, science activities, field campaign results, and other science team business. More than 175 scientists from 11 countries participated. The TRMM satellite is now in its 16th year of on-orbit operation and the GPM Core Observatory is scheduled to launch in early 2014.
5th International GPM Ground Validation Workshop
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07/10/2012
Bird Migration to be Tracked by GPM Radar
By Ellen Gray, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Original www.nasa.gov Press Release (published 6/7/12)
Six Week GCPEx Campaign Concludes
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03/01/2012
February 29 marked the last day of the GPM Cold Season Experiment. After six weeks of no snow, light snow, rain, and some nice heavy snowstorms, the GCPEx team is heading home.
MC3E Summary from The Earth Observer, January 2012
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02/01/2012
This excerpt from the NASA Earth Observer publication provides and in-depth summary of the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E), which took place from April 22nd - June 6th 2011 in central Oklahoma. The overarching goals of the field effort were to provide a complete three-dimensional characterization of precipitation microphysics in the context of improving the reliability of GPM precipitation retrievals over land, and to advance understanding of the primary physical components that form the basis for models that simulate convection and clouds.
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GCPEx: What We Don't Know About Snow
By Ellen Gray, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Original www.nasa.gov Feature (published 1/31/12)
Predicting the future is always a tricky business -- just watch a TV weather report. Weather forecasts have come a long way, but almost every season there's a snowstorm that seems to come out of nowhere, or one that's forecast as 'the big one' that turns out to be a total bust.
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