GPM Yields IMERG
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- Visualizations by:
- Horace Mitchell
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- Written by:
- Ellen T. Gray
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- Edited by:
- Ryan Fitzgibbons
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- Scientific consulting by:
- Gail Skofronick Jackson and
- George Huffman
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- Produced by:
- Ryan Fitzgibbons
- View full credits
GPM Project Scientist Dr. Gail Skofronick-Jackson and Deputy Project Scientist Dr. George Huffman narrate a look at the new GPM IMERG global dataset.
Complete transcript in Brazilian Portuguese available.
NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement mission has produced its first global map of rainfall and snowfall. The GPM Core Observatory launched one year ago on Feb. 27, 2014 as a collaboration between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and acts as the standard to unify precipitation measurements from a network of 12 satellites. The result is NASA's Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM data product, called IMERG, which combines all of these data from 12 satellites into a single, seamless map.
The map covers more of the globe than any previous precipitation data set and is updated every half hour, allowing scientists to see how rain and snow storms move around nearly the entire planet. As scientists work to understand all the elements of Earth’s climate and weather systems, and how they could change in the future, GPM provides a major step forward in providing the scientific community comprehensive and consistent measurements of precipitation.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Visualizers
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Writer
- Ellen T. Gray (NASA/HQ) [Lead]
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Editor
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
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Scientists
- Gail Skofronick Jackson (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
- George Huffman (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
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Producers
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
- Rani Gran (NASA/GSFC)
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Videographers
- John Caldwell (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.) [Lead]
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.) [Lead]
Missions
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GPM Yields IMERG
(ID: 2015019)
Friday, February 27, 2015 at 5:00AM
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