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Using Satellites to Track Water
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Faisal Hossain, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Tennessee Technological University, uses NASA satellite data to help Bangladeshi authorities monitor their water resources and prepare for water-related disasters.
NASA Scientists Research Global Precipitation
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This animation of global precipitation from the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) cycles through climatology data for each month of the year and then repeats the cycle twice.
Basic illustration of air pressure on a raindrop
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This article teaches how a drop of rain changes shape as it falls through the atmosphere.
Ground Validation and OLYMPEX Webquest – Elementary Version
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You will learn how we measure rain and snow from the ground and from space using satellites, and why we need to check the data using ground validation. This particularly relates to the OLYMPEX Field Campaign.
Thumbnail for Melting Ice, Rising Seas, showing ice and title text
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Using satellites, lasers, and radar in space, and dedicated researchers on the ground, NASA is studying the Earth's ice and water to better understand how sea level rise might affect us all.
Lisa Milana stands at the center of a classroom of students holding up GPM water cycle handouts.
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The GPM Mentorship Program – Educator Track is engaging with teachers and educators from kindergarten to high-school to provide them with resources to teach students about GPM, the water cycle, and Earths weather and climate.
The Making of "Raindrop Tales: GPM Meets Mizu-Chan"
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Learn how the anime comic "Raindrop Tales: GPM Meets Mizu-chan" was conceived and developed.
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This lesson uses cubes as a way to graph precipitation data to compare the precipitation averages and seasonal patterns for several different locations. There are several variations to accommodate various ages and ability levels.
Beautiful Earth: Snow
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GPM Application Science Lead, Dr. Dalia Kirschbaum, explains how GPM observes snow, and the importance of understanding snow characteristics and distribution in a changing climate.
GRACE water map
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This My NASA Data lesson plan takes students through data from the GRACE satellite mission to help them understand where regions around the globe may experience a change in their freshwater availability.

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