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Finding Strong Storms with TRMM & GPM

Finding Strong Storms with TRMM & GPM
Monday, April 15, 2019
Spring is severe storms season here in the US, but not everyone has NEXRAD radar coverage; however, NASA’s TRMM and GPM satellites with their onboard radars have made it possible to search the entire global Tropics and midlatitudes and systematically identify areas where there are strong to intense thunderstorms. Researchers now headed by Dr. Chuntao Liu at Texas A&M University have built a comprehensive database of “precipitation features” based on regions of contiguous radar echoes from first the TRMM and now the GPM satellite. These precipitation features can then be mined to locate areas...
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Training

AGU24 Hyperwall
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Beginner Training Sessions Overview of Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission, Data Products and Data Access Tools Topics Covered: Learn about the GPM Core Observatory satellite: Orbital Configuration, Sensors ( GMI, DPR) GPM Constellation Satellites Learn about GPM precipitation data products: Level-2 to Level-3 Data Sets from GMI, DPR and Combined GMI-DPR, IMERG Filename Conventions, Formats Spatial and Temporal Resolutions and Coverage Data Search and Access Web-tools Data Quality Potential Data Applications Training Resources: View a recording of the webinar Download the webinar
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GPM Flies Over Developing Tropical Storm Idai Twice

GPM Flies Over Developing Tropical Storm Idai Twice
Intense Tropical Cyclone Idai started as a tropical depression on the 4th of March, 2019, off the coast of Mozambique. After making landfall over Mozambique it turned back over the Mozambique Channel and strengthened to become a tropical cyclone on the 10th of March. The GPM satellite captured the cyclone with both the GPM Microwave Imager (GMI) and the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) on the 11th of March at 04:36 UTC when the storm was in the middle on the Mozambique Channel. The DPR captured a well-developed eye, seen at the center of the image. It flew over the storm once again at

2019 PMM Science Team

GPM flying over Earth with a data swath visualized.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Science Mission Directorate, Earth Science Division has selected new projects from the 2018 Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM) Science Team focus area solicitation. PMM projects focus on investigations related to satellite observations of precipitation using measurements from, but not limited to, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, GPM mission constellation partner spacecraft, and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). Specifically the PMM program supports three types of investigations: (1) The...
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5 Years of Global Precipitation Measurement

5 Years of Global Precipitation Measurement
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Download this video in high resolution from the NASA Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio Five years ago, on Feb. 27, 2014, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, a joint satellite project by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), lifted off aboard a Japanese H-IIA rocket. Since then, the cutting-edge instruments on GPM have provided advanced measurements about the rain and snow particles within clouds, Earth’s precipitation patterns, extreme weather and myriad ways precipitation around the world affects society. Among the uses of GPM data are helping...
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