NASA On Air: NASA's OLYMPEX Program Helps Validate Global Precipitation Measurement Satellite (11/18/2015)
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LEAD: If you want to test and fine-tune a satellite that measures snow and rain, it makes sense to go to THE wettest area in the United States: the rainforest of Washington State.
1. Each year the slopes of the Olympic Mountains are soaked with over 100 inches of rain, with a record total of 184", or 15 feet of rain!
2. NASA and university scientists are utilizing NASA's DC-8 and ER-2 research planes as well as ground radar and other instruments to gather "ground truth" data to help calibrate NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite, launched in 2014.
TAG: The GPM satellite network of 12 satellites provides unprecedented worldwide radar measurements of precipitation every 30 minutes that will assist weather and climate scientists, as well as flood emergency managers.
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- Howard Joe Witte (ADNET) [Lead]
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OLYMPEX Scientist Profiles
Dec. 1st, 2015
Read moreA profile video of Rachael Kroodsma.For complete transcript, click here. A profile video of Joe Zagrodnik.For complete transcript, click here. A GIF optimized for posting on Twitter. A GIF optimized for posting on Twitter. A GIF optimized for posting on Twitter. Video profiles of researchers and scientists in the field during the OLYMPEX field campaign (2015-2016).From November 10 through December 21, NASA and university scientists are taking to the field to study wet winter weather near Seattle, Washington. With weather radars, weather balloons, specialized ground instruments, and NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory, the science team will be verifying rain and snowfall observations made by the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite mission on a NASA-led field campaign, The Olympic Mountain Experiment, or OLYMPEX.This is Rachael Kroodsma's profile on YouTube.This is Joe Zagrodnik's profile on YouTube. For More InformationSee [http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-heads-to-pacific-northwest-for-field-campaign-to-measure-rain-and-snowfall](http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-heads-to-pacific-northwest-for-field-campaign-to-measure-rain-and-snowfall) Related pages