Sentences with phrase «precipitation measurements»

The environmental data sets from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and the MODIS sensors will continue into the next decade with data provided by their follow - on missions: the Global Precipitation Measurement mission to launch in early 2014, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite currently in orbit.

The DKRZ long - term archive WDCC (World Data Center for Climate) has assigned its 1000th DataCite DOI to the experiment OceanRAIN - M of the project «Ocean Rainfall And Ice - phase precipitation measurement Network».

Feb 01, 2018: The DKRZ long - term archive WDCC (World Data Center for Climate) has assigned its 1000th DataCite DOI to the experiment OceanRAIN - M of the project «Ocean Rainfall And Ice - phase precipitation measurement Network».

The AMSU - B sensor was followed by the Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) on NOAA and European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) satellites and, most recently, the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) flown on the Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite (Suomi NPP) and NOAA - 20 satellites and the NASA Global Precipitation Measurement Microwave Imager (GMI).

They just have precipitation measurements at the airport, which you can't really use for snow data,» he said.

Numerical modeling of precipitation measurements was conducted using a supercomputer nicknamed Cheyenne at the NCAR - Wyoming Supercomputing Center.

Moreover, because of the effects of wind speed, evaporation, and precipitation intensity, different types of rain gauge, and observation techniques induce different errors in precipitation measurements.

The Palmer Drought Severity Index, which is a measure of soil moisture using precipitation measurements and rough estimates of changes in evaporation, has shown that from 1900 to 2002, the Sahel region of Africa has been experiencing harsher drought conditions.

Quantitative precipitation measurement is supported by two precipitation radars in key locations of the catchment.

Among those officially joining with ARM during BAECC were the University of Helsinki, FMI, NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement Ground Validation Autonomous Parsivel Unit, Massachusetts - based Aerodyne Research, Colorado State University, and several European research institutes.

The data comes from NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Global Precipitation Measurement mission (GPM), a constellation of international and domestic satellites that estimate rainfall and snowfall every three hours.

Steven Running, chair of a NASA earth science advisory committee meeting, was pleased both with the request, as well as with a year that had seen the launch of three major missions: the Global Precipitation Measurement mission, joint with the Japanese Space Agency; the Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 2 mission; and the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission, which just launched on 31 January.

Diving deeper into the complex puzzle of mass strandings, the team decided to expand their analysis and include additional oceanographic and atmospheric data sets from NASA's Earth science missions, including Terra, the Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - view Sensor — or SeaWIFS, for short — and Global Precipitation Measurement, as well as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES, mission.

Nevertheless, Steven Running, chair of a NASA earth science advisory committee meeting, was pleased both with the funding request, as well as with a year that had seen the launch of three major missions: the Global Precipitation Measurement mission, joint with the Japanese Space Agency; the Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 2 mission; and the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission, which just launched on 31 January.

For instance, NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement Mission provides worldwide precipitation measurements every three hours.

We also acknowledge our NASA partners at the Global Precipitation Measurement and SPoRT programs, with whom we have worked jointly on various aspects of snowfall rate retrievals for many years.

To more precisely pin a date on each landslide, Kirschbaum and colleagues turn to rainfall measurements from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission.

To measure rainfall over land, the scientists took advantage of a new NASA - based international satellite mission, dubbed Global Precipitation Measurement.

The data come from the Integrated Multi-Satellite Retrievals for GPM (IMERG), a product of the Global Precipitation Measurement mission.

I recently realized that the data from the relatively new Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite can show incredibly fine detail!

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Following their successful «Let It Snow» photo contest, our colleagues at the soon - to - launch Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission are looking for your best photos and videos of rain, sleet, hail, snow and any other precipitation.

The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite has been busy analyzing severe weather in the U.S.

However, volunteer temperature observers were also asked to take precipitation measurements from rain gauges, and starting around 1960 the U.S. Weather Service requested that observers start taking their measurements in the morning (between 7 and 9 AM), as that would minimize the amount of evaporation from rain gauges and result in more accurate precipitation measurements.

While there are few ground - based weather stations in the North Pacific to tally how much rain fell over the ocean, satellites such as those participating in the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission can estimate precipitation rates from above.

A scientist with the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission explains why snowflakes look the way they do.

The Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM core satellite flew overhead and found some heavy rain occurring when it measured rainfall rates within the intensifying storm.

The map is part of a broader effort to establish a hazards monitoring system that combines satellite observations of rainfall from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission with an assessment of the underlying susceptibility of terrain.