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    ID: 12063 Produced Video

    NASA On Air: NASA's OLYMPEX Program Helps Validate Global Precipitation Measurement Satellite (11/18/2015)

    Nov. 18th, 2015
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    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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    ID: 12060 Produced Video

    OLYMPEX DC-8 in Flight

    Nov. 13th, 2015
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Footage of the DC-8 in flight.Credit: NASA Armstrong Research Flight Center/Lori Losey || The Olympic Mountain Experiment, or OLYMPEX, is a NASA-led field campaign, which will take place on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State from November 2015 through February 2016. The goal of the campaign is to collect detailed atmospheric measurements that will be used to evaluate how well rain-observing satellites measure rainfall and snowfall from space. In particular, OLYMPEX will be assessing satellite measurements made by the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission Core Observatory, a joint mission by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), which launched in 2014.This is a selection of b-roll of the DC-8 in flight over the Olympic region during the field campaign. ||

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    ID: 12053 B-Roll

    OLYMPEX Field Campaign B-Roll

    Nov. 11th, 2015
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    The Olympic Mountain Experiment, or OLYMPEX, is a NASA-led field campaign, which will take place on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State from November 2015 through February 2016. The goal of the campaign is to collect detailed atmospheric measurements that will be used to evaluate how well rain-observing satellites measure rainfall and snowfall from space. In particular, OLYMPEX will be assessing satellite measurements made by the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission Core Observatory, a joint mission by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), which launched in 2014.This is a selection of b-roll that captures the scientists and instruments at work in Washington State. ||

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    ID: 12050 Produced Video

    Researchers Gear Up For OLYMPEX

    Nov. 10th, 2015
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    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.For more information: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-heads-to-pacific-northwest-for-field-campaign-to-measure-rain-and-snowfall ||

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    ID: 12037 Produced Video

    Instrument Upload to OLYMPEX DC-8

    Nov. 2nd, 2015
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    Dropsonde Upload || Exterior shots of the DC-8 || Goddard Space Flight Center || JPL ||

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    ID: 4334 Visualization

    Atmospheric River Reaching California

    July 30th, 2015
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    An atmospheric river occured between 9th and 12th of Dec. 2014 over the Pacific Ocean and Southwest US. || Atmospheric rivers are narrow corridors or filaments of concentrated moisture in the atmosphere that account for most of the pole-ward transport of water vapor around the globe. Atmospheric rivers consist of narrow bands of enhanced water vapor transport, typically along the boundaries between large areas of divergent surface air flow, including some frontal zones in association with extratropical cyclones that form over the oceans. Atmospheric rivers play a central role in the global water cycle. They are the major cause of extreme precipitation events (which may cause severe flooding) in many mid-latitude, westerly coastal regions of the world, including the west coast of North America, western Europe, and the west coast of North Africa. This project illustrates an atmospheric river that developed between the 9th and 12th of December 2014, stretching across Hawaii to California based on water vapor data and IMERG precipitation data. The visualizations show the IMERG precipitation data over the white, cloud-like water vapor. Heavy precipitation is shown in shades of red while lighter rains are shown in greens (see the color bar below).In the visualization above, the time step (the period) between two consecutive frames represents a quarter of an hour.In the visualizations below, the time step between two consecutive frames represents half hour. ||

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    ID: 4285 Visualization

    Near Real-Time Global Precipitation from the Global Precipitation Measurement Constellation

    March 31st, 2015
    (updated Oct. 1st, 2023)

    An animation of the most currently available global precipitation data from IMERG. ||

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    ID: 11392 Produced Video

    GPM Core Spacecraft Beauty Passes

    Oct. 31st, 2013
    (updated May 3rd, 2023)

    A variety of animated beauty passes of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core spacecraft. || Various beauty passes of the GPM Core spacecraft. || The GPM Core satellite cruises over a hurricane. ||

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