TRMM: Investigating the Atmosphere's Water and Energy Cycles
An overview of the water cycle, and an explanation of how TRMM can look inside clouds to understand Earth's water and Energy cycles.
TRMM: The Heat Energy within Clouds
An explanation of how heat energy flows through our atmosphere, and how TRMM is used to measure warming within clouds.
TRMM: Investigating El Nino
An explanation of El Nino and La Nina, and of how TRMM is used to study them.
TRMM Examines Another Potential Tropical Cyclone
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite was placed into its low-earth orbit in November of 1997. Its primary mission has been to measure rainfall from space. TRMM has provided space borne rain radar and microwave radiometric data that measure the vertical and horizontal distribution of rainfall over the tropics. It has also been valuable for monitoring the development of tropical cyclones, especially over remote parts of the open ocean. The image on the right uses data captured by the TRMM satellite on 7 April 2011 at 1914 UTC. It shows a TRMM satellite view of rain intensity
TRMM: Reducing the Uncertainty of Weather Forecasting
An overview of how TRMM is improving weather forecasting techniques and reducing uncertainty in our weather predictions.