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Although the data shown here is based on real observations, the cloud cover data was only available for a very limited window of time as an experiment using the GOES-14 satellite. The cloud data comes from ground-based sensors. This animation is a proof-of-concept showing the kind of data that will be gathered by GOES-R on a regular basis. || lightning_comp.0499_print.jpg (1024x576) [148.4 KB] || background.4k.png (3840x2160) [7.7 MB] || lightning_comp.0499_searchweb.png (320x180) [103.2 KB] || lightning_comp.0499_thm.png (80x40) [6.9 KB] || lightning_comp_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [14.7 MB] || sample_composite (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || lightning_comp_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [1.8 MB] || date_layer (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || cloud_layer (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || lightning_layer (3840x2160) [0 Item(s)] || lightning_comp_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [188 bytes] || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 12197, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12197/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-04-12T17:12:14-04:00", "title": "Visualizing Raindrops", "description": "To better understand storms, NASA measures raindrop sizes from space. || c-1024.jpg (1024x576) [110.2 KB] || c-1280.jpg (1280x720) [142.6 KB] || c-1920.jpg (1920x1080) [221.9 KB] || c-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [117.0 KB] || c-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [92.7 KB] || c-1024_web.png (320x180) [92.7 KB] || c-1024_thm.png (80x40) [24.0 KB] || ", "hits": 152 }, { "id": 12185, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12185/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-03-31T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Instagram: Why Do Raindrop Sizes Matter In Storms?", "description": "Not all raindrops are created equal. The size of falling raindrops depends on several factors, including where the cloud producing the drops is located on the globe and where the drops originate in the cloud. For the first time, scientists have three-dimensional snapshots of raindrops and snowflakes around the world from space, thanks to the joint NASA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. With the new global data on raindrop and snowflake sizes this mission provides, scientists can improve rainfall estimates from satellite data and in numerical weather forecast models, helping us better understand and prepare for extreme weather events. || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 12182, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12182/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-03-31T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Why Do Raindrop Sizes Matter In Storms?", "description": "Not all raindrops are created equal. The size of falling raindrops depends on several factors, including where the cloud producing the drops is located on the globe and where the drops originate in the cloud. For the first time, scientists have three-dimensional snapshots of raindrops and snowflakes around the world from space, thanks to the joint NASA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. With the new global data on raindrop and snowflake sizes this mission provides, scientists can improve rainfall estimates from satellite data and in numerical weather forecast models, helping us better understand and prepare for extreme weather events.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube Channel. || ", "hits": 103 }, { "id": 4437, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4437/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2016-03-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Inside Cyclone Winston (February 20, 2016)", "description": "Turntable visualization of Cyclone Winston with a cutting plane through the storm's eye. As the camera swings around the cyclone, the cutting plane stays perpendicular to the camera revealing a cross-section of the cyclone's internal precipitation rates. 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As the camera zooms in, GPM's GPROF data reveals surface rain rates. GPM's DPR 3D volumetric precipitation structure quickly dissolves in to show the entire precipitation structure of Winston. The camera then moves down to the side of the storm to show it's profile, revealing the height of Winston's massive precipitation structures. As the camera moves up and around, Winston is dissected, revealing the heavy precipitation structure surrounding the Cyclone's eye. 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The storm formed on June 30 off the coast of Florida and was classified as a Category 2 hurricane when it made landfall over North Carolina on July 3. That morning, NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory satellite passed over the hurricane, detecting the drops of water that descended from its winding clouds. The satellite, which launched in February 2014, has two instruments that measure the location and intensity of water falling from inside a storm. Such observations help scientists distinguish the structure of features that power a hurricane, providing clues as to whether or not a storm will strengthen. Watch the video to see a 2D and 3D visualization of Arthur's precipitation as the hurricane approached shore. || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 4186, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4186/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-07-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "GPM Dissects Hurricane Arthur", "description": "The Global Precipitation Measurement mission's Core Observatory flew over Hurricane Arthur five times between July 1 and July 6, 2014. Arthur is the first tropical cyclone of the 2014 Atlantic Hurricane season. It formed as a tropical storm on Tuesday, July 1 and reached maximum intensity as a Category 2 hurricane on July 4, disrupting some coastal U.S. Independence Day celebrations. This visualization is taken from the flyover on July 3, 2014 with Hurricane Arthur just off the South Carolina coast. GPM data showed that the hurricane was asymmetrical, with spiral arms, called rain bands, on the eastern side of the storm but not on the western side.The GPM Core Observatory carries two instruments that show the location and intensity of the rain, which defines a crucial part of the storm structure – and how it will behave. The GPM Microwave Imager sees through the tops of clouds to observe how much and where precipitation occurs, and the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar observes precise details of precipitation in 3-dimensions.For forecasters, GPM's microwave and radar data are part of the toolbox of satellite data, including other low Earth orbit and geostationary satellites, that they use to monitor tropical cyclones and hurricanes. The addition of GPM data to the current suite of satellite data is timely. Its predecessor precipitation satellite, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, is 18 years into what was originally a three-year mission. GPM's new high-resolution microwave imager data and the unique radar data ensure that forecasters and modelers won't have a gap in coverage. GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The satellite launched Feb. 27, and after its check-out period began its prime mission on May 29, in time for hurricane season.All GPM data products will be released to the public by September 2, 2104. Current and future data sets are available to registered users from NASA Goddard's Precipitation Processing Center website. || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 11470, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11470/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-04-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Seeing Precipitation From Space", "description": "An extratropical cyclone spun across the North Pacific near Japan on March 10, 2014. The cyclone became the first storm imaged by NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, launched eleven days earlier. The two instruments aboard the satellite are tuned in to different types of precipitation—rain, snow, and any mixture of the two, letting scientists see exactly where each is falling inside a storm. This kind of detail is important for understanding how storms behave and how the water essential to life moves around the planet. Watch the video to learn more about the satellite and how it observes our watery world. || ", "hits": 13 }, { "id": 4153, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4153/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-03-25T01:00:00-04:00", "title": "GPM/GMI First Light", "description": "Eleven days after the Feb. 27 launch of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, the two instruments aboard took their first joint images of an interesting precipitation event. On March 10, the Core Observatory passed over an extra-tropical cyclone about 1055 miles (1700 kilometers) due east of Japan's Honshu Island. The storm formed from the collision of a cold front wrapping around a warm front, emerging over the ocean near Okinawa on March 8. It moved northeast over the ocean south of Japan, drawing cold air west-to-east over the land, a typical winter weather pattern that also brought heavy snow over Hokkaido, the northernmost of the four main islands. After the GPM images were taken, the storm continued to move eastward, slowly intensifying before weakening in the central North Pacific.This visualization shows data from the GPM Microwave Imager, which observes different types of precipitation with 13 channels. Scientists analyze that data and then use it to calculate the light to heavy rain rates and falling snow within the storm.For more information on this topic: GPM web siteOther multimedia items related to this story: GPM GMI First Light (#11508) GPM DPR First Light (#11509) || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 11508, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11508/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-03-25T01:00:00-04:00", "title": "GPM GMI First Light", "description": "On March 10, the Core Observatory passed over an extra-tropical cyclone about 1055 miles (1700 kilometers) due east of Japan's Honshu Island. This visualization shows data from the GPM Microwave Imager, which observes different types of precipitation with 13 channels. Scientists analyze that data and then use it to calculate the light to heavy rain rates and falling snow within the storm. || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 11288, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11288/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-05-31T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Anatomy of a Raindrop", "description": "This short video explains how a raindrop falls through the atmosphere and why a more accurate look at raindrops can improve estimates of global precipitation.For a printable droplet hand out click here. || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 10830, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10830/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-10-04T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Rainmaker", "description": "With the peak of the 2011 hurricane season behind us, Irene will likely go down as the biggest rainmaker of the year. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), a joint NASA and JAXA satellite, monitored Irene's rainfall as the storm churned from the Caribbean up the Eastern Seaboard of the United States from August 20 through 29, 2011. Irene's heaviest rainfall totaled over 8.9 inches as its eye reached Cape Lookout, North Carolina. Other rainfall hotspots included New Jersey (upward of 8 inches in some counties), and upstate New York and Vermont, where satellite estimates show rainfall of up to 5.9 inches in some areas. As Irene swept northward, it turned into a depression, dumping heavy, but less damaging rains on parts of Canada before breaking up over the Labrador Sea. In the visualization below, watch Irene whirl its way up the Atlantic coastline. || ", "hits": 35 }, { "id": 3852, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3852/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2011-09-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hurricane Irene", "description": "This visualization follows the development of Hurricane Irene as it moves up the East Coast of the United States in August of 2011. There are three versions of this visualization. Two of the versions follow the eye of the storm until it dissipates, then pulls back to reveal the rain fall accumulation track as measured by the Tropcical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) using two different color tables. The first version only includes rainfall along the storm track. The second and third versions include all rainfall. The third version shows the rainfall accumulating as the storm moves.These visualizations were created to support presenstations at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) 2011. || ", "hits": 35 } ] }