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Houze: The weather has been extremely robust

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and informative. We've had good

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forecasting of the weather so we can plan our campaign.

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Petersen: I'm fairly confident in saying that the OLYMPEX field campaign is one of the best that

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we've done yet, bar none. It was a very nice way to finish off our major ground validation

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field campaigns for GPM and that we really just nailed it with OLYMPEX.

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Houze: As you know the Olympic Mountains

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are the really the only temperate rainforest area in

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the Northern Hemisphere, and we get lots,

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lots of storms every winter, and I think the excitement is that we

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have gotten such a good sequence of weather patterns with

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very heavy rain storms. We've had several flooding events,

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we have one radar which is perched by the side of the Quinault

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River. In fact it became so high at one point that they had to literally

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raise the radar and its truck that it sits on up

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several feet and the radar operators ended up having to

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kayak to the radar.
Petersen: The storm that I really got excited

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about was a storm where we did our very first-ever triple-aircraft stacked sampling underneath

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the GPM Core satellite as it flew over the top

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while at the same time we were looking up at the precipitation from below the base of the

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mountains with three different radars. The system itself was a very

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complex precipitation system. The flow was coming in off the ocean and impinging on the mountains

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and then the precipitation got very deep over the mountains. Whereas

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it was much shallower over the ocean, and so we were able to see this ice process

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over the mountains that wasn't quite as pronounced over the ocean so there's a big

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transition in how the precipitation and the rainfall was made between just those two areas over a

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short distance. The dataset that we've collected so far--there's no question--

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it's going to really contribute to being able to understand both the precipitation

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processes that are occurring, but how we do a better job of measuring those processes from

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space.
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