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Beautiful Earth: Floods and Landslides

Primary Topic:

Weather and Climate

Subtopics:

Precipitation, Climate, Satellites, Floods, Landslides, Forecasting, World Health

Type:

Video

Audience:

Informal, 6 - 8

Standards:

ESS2.C, ESS3.B, ESS3.D, ETS2.A, ETS2.B

Keywords:

GPM, soil, extreme events

Summary:

GPM Application Science Lead, Dr. Dalia Kirschbaum, explains how landslides and floods occur, and how satellite imagery is used in understanding these disasters.

Beautiful Earth: Hurricanes

Primary Topic:

Weather and Climate

Subtopics:

Precipitation, Weather, Climate, Tropical Cyclones, Forecasting

Type:

Video

Audience:

Informal, 6 - 8

Standards:

ETS2.A

Keywords:

GPM Core Observatory, TRMM, hurricanes

Summary:

GPM Application Science Lead, Dr. Dalia Kirschbaum, discusses how GPM observes hurricanes from space, as well as the formation process and properties of these hurricanes.

GPM's First Global Rainfall and Snowfall Map

Primary Topic:

Weather and Climate

Subtopics:

Precipitation, Weather, Tropical Cyclones, Remote Sensing, Data

Type:

Video

Audience:

Outreach, Informal, 9 - 12, 6 - 8, General

Standards:

ESS2.C, ESS2.D, ETS2.A, ETS2.B

Keywords:

global, rain, snow, data processing, GPM Constellation, IMERG

Summary:

GPM Project Scientist Dr. Gail Skofronick-Jackson and Deputy Project Scientist Dr. George Huffman narrate a look at the new GPM IMERG global dataset.

GPM Scientists Answer Students' Questions About Global Precipitation

GPM Master Teachers and Pilot Teachers showed their students the data animation depicting six months of global precipitation, and asked their students to share their questions for NASA scientists about this new global portrait of rain and snow.

Primary Topic:

Societal Applications

Subtopics:

Precipitation, Earth Systems, Weather, Tropical Cyclones, Floods, Landslides

Type:

Video

Audience:

Outreach, Informal, 9 - 12, 6 - 8, General

Standards:

ESS2.C, ESS2.D, ETS2.A, ETS2.B

Keywords:

GPM Core Observatory, IMERG

Summary:

GPM Master Teachers and Pilot Teachers showed their students the data animation depicting six months of global precipitation, and asked their students to share their questions for NASA scientists about this new global portrait of rain and snow.

GPM in a Minute

http://pmm.nasa.gov/extreme-weather/first-2015-tropical-storm-forms-eastern-pacific

Primary Topic:

Technology

Subtopics:

Satellites, Launch Vehicle, STEM Careers

Type:

Video

Audience:

Outreach, Informal, General

Standards:

ETS2.A, ETS2.B

Keywords:

NASA Goddard, Tanegashima Space Center, engineering, testing, GPM Core Observatory

Summary:

A time-lapse video that shows the assembly and testing of the GPM Core Observatory satellite in one minute.

First Data from GPM

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11784

Primary Topic:

Technology

Subtopics:

Precipitation, Weather and Climate, Weather, Tropical Cyclones, Satellites, Data

Type:

Video

Audience:

Outreach, Informal, 9 - 12, 6 - 8, General

Standards:

ESS2.D, ESS3.D, ETS2.A

Keywords:

GPM Core Observatory, JAXA, GMI, DPR

Summary:

NASA and JAXA released the first images captured by their newest Earth-observing satellite, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, which launched into space Feb. 27, 2014.