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            "release_date": "2018-10-26T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "GPM Satellite observes powerful super Typhoon Yutu hitting Northern Marianas",
            "description": "GPM passed over Super Typhoon Yutu on October 24th at 11:07 a.m. EDT . As the camera moves in on the storm, DPR's volumetric view of the storm is revealed. A slicing plane moves across the volume to display precipitation rates throughout the storm. Shades of green to red represent liquid precipitation. Frozen precipitation is shown in cyan and purple.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || Yutu.2320_print.jpg (1024x576) [145.9 KB] || Yutu.2320_searchweb.png (320x180) [100.2 KB] || Yutu.2320_thm.png (80x40) [7.8 KB] || yutu (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || Yutu_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [7.7 MB] || Yutu_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [102.3 MB] || captions_silent.27091.en_US.srt [43 bytes] || captions_silent.27091.en_US.vtt [56 bytes] || Yutu_1080p30.mp4.hwshow || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4682/",
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            "release_date": "2018-09-19T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "GPM Captures Super Typhoon Mangkhut Approaching The Philippines",
            "description": "At nearly the same time that the US East Coast was experiencing the arrival of Hurricane Florence, a much more powerful storm was also arriving half a world away in the Philippines—Super Typhoon Mangkhut.  While the slow-moving Florence arrived as a Category 1 hurricane that brought record flooding to the Carolinas, less than 7 hours later Mangkhut (known as Ompong in the Philippines) made landfall on the northern main island of Luzon as a full on Category 5 super typhoon with sustained winds reported at 165 mph. The visualization starts with a view of Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) precipitation rates from 15:11 UTC (11:11 pm PST) 12 September to 15:41 UTC (11:41 pm PST) 13 September 2018 as the storm was making its way across the Philippine Sea headed for Luzon.  Before entering the Philippine Sea, Mangkhut passed just north of Guam on the evening of the 10th as a Category 2 typhoon with sustained winds reported at 105 mph by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) causing widespread power outages.  The next day on the 11th as it entered the eastern Philippine Sea, Mangkhut underwent a rapid intensification cycle wherein the storm’s intensity shot from Category 2 on the afternoon of the 10th (local time) to Category 5 with sustained winds estimated at 160 mph by JTWC by the evening of the 11th (local time).  Mangkhut is estimated to have reached its peak intensity at 18:00 UTC on the 12th (2:00 am PST 13 September) with maximum sustained winds estimated at 180 mph by JTWC, making it the strongest tropical cyclone of the year thus far.At the start of the visualization, Mangkhut was an extremely powerful Category 5 super typhoon and just approaching its peak intensity.  Over the next 24 hours, Mangkhut’s intensity leveled out such that when the GPM core satellite over flew the storm, Mangkhut’s peak intensity was estimated at 165 mph, a still very powerful Category 5 storm.  The end of the visualization shows the surface rainfall within Mangkhut as well as a 3D flyby of the storm courtesy of the GPM core satellite, which passed over the storm at around 15:40 UTC (11:40 pm PST) on the 13th.  At the surface, a distinct eye is present surrounded by a large area of very heavy to intense rain (shown in dark red and magenta).  Further out, heavy rain bands are rotating counter clockwise around the storm’s center.   The flyby shows a 3D rendering of the radar structure of Mangkhut using data collected from GPM’s Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar or DPR.  At the heart of the storm surrounding the eye is a ring of elevated echo tops associated with Mangkhut’s eyewall.  The strong symmetry and continuity of the ring is consistent with an intense tropical cyclone and suggests no inhibiting effects such as dry air or wind shear are affecting the storm.  In fact, after these images were taken, Mangkhut would continue on to strike the northern part of Luzon at the same estimated intensity, becoming the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines since Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.  So far the storm is being blamed for at least 95 fatalities in the Philippines, many due to a large landslide around the town of Itogon.  After crossing Luzon, Mangkhut continued on to strike Hong Kong with winds reported at 121 mph before dissipating over mainland China, where it is being blamed for 6 fatalities.   GPM data is part of the toolbox of satellite data used by forecasters and scientists to understand how storms behave. GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Current and future data sets are available with free registration to users from NASA Goddard's Precipitation Processing Center website. || ",
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            "release_date": "2018-09-12T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "GOES and GPM Capture Florence Trying to Intensify Over the Atlantic",
            "description": "Hurricane Florence originally formed from an African Easterly wave that emerged off the west coast of Africa back on the 30th of August.  When it reached the vicinity of the Cape Verde Islands the next day, it was organized enough to become a tropical depression.  The following day the depression strengthened enough to become a tropical storm and Florence was born on the 1st of September.  Over the next 3 days, Florence gradually strengthened as it moved in a general west-northwest direction into the central Atlantic.  Then, on the 4th of September, Florence began to rapidly intensify.  By the morning of the 5th, Florence was a Category 3 hurricane before reaching Category 4 intensity later that afternoon with maximum sustained winds estimated at 130 mph by the National Hurricane Center (NHC).  At this point, Florence became the victim of increasingly strong southwesterly wind shear, which greatly weakened the storm all the way back down to a tropical storm the by evening of the 6th.The following GOES-East Infrared (IR) loop shows Florence from 17:54 UTC (1:54 pm EDT) 6 September to 19:27 UTC (3:27 pm EDT) 7 September when it was struggling against the strong southwesterly wind shear in the Central Atlantic.  A very interesting looking feature is the arc-shaped cloud that propagates outward from the storm towards the west.  This cloud feature is occurring at upper-levels and is likely tied to a gravity wave propagating outward from an area of intense convection that erupted from deep within the storm.  When the tops of these smaller scale storms within a storm reach the upper troposphere, they can trigger gravity waves.  As these waves progagate outward they can enhance cloud formation where they induce rising motion and erode cloud where they induce downward motion or subsidence.  As this arc-shaped cloud is able to propagate outward uniformly from the center, it must be occurring above the shear layer. Compensating areas of subsidence can also surround the strong rising motion occurring within the tall convective clouds.  This can help to erode surrounding clouds and may be contributing to the clearing that occurs between the arc-shaped cloud and the mainarea of convection.The end of the loop shows surface rainfall and a 3D flyby of Florence courtesy of the GPM core satellite, which passed over the storm at around 19:21 UTC (3:21 pm EDT) on the 7th.  At the surface, two areas of intense rain (shown in magenta) reveal the presence of two areas of strong thunderstorms within Florence north and northeast of the center.  The flyby shows a 3D rendering of the radar structure of the storm.  The darker blue tower indicates an area of deep convection that has penetrated well over 10 km high and is associated with the southernmost area of intense rain just north of the center.  It is these areas of deep convection that fuel the storm by releasing heat, known as latent heat, mainly from condensation, near the core.  Although it would be nearly 2 days before Florence re-gained hurricane intensity, these convective towers are what helped Florence to survive the effects of the wind shear and eventually grow back into a Category 4 hurricane.GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA.Caption by Stephen Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and Joe Munchak (GSFC). || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4674/",
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            "release_date": "2018-08-06T15:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "GPM passes directly over Tropical Storm John off the coast of Mexico",
            "description": "GPM passed over Tropical Storm John on August 6, 2018. As the camera moves in on the storm, DPR's volumetric view of the storm is revealed. A slicing plane moves across the volume to display precipitation rates throughout the storm. Shades of green to red represent liquid precipitation extending down to the ground. Frozen precipitation is displayed in cyan and purple. This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || john01.2330_print.jpg (1024x576) [146.4 KB] || john01.2330_searchweb.png (320x180) [100.1 KB] || john01.2330_thm.png (80x40) [7.8 KB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [0 Item(s)] || john01_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [6.0 MB] || john01_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [114.4 MB] || captions_silent.26529.en_US.srt [43 bytes] || captions_silent.26529.en_US.vtt [56 bytes] || john01_1080p30.mp4.hwshow [180 bytes] || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2017-10-04T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Intense String of Hurricanes Seen From Space",
            "description": "In 2017, we have seen four Atlantic storms rapidly intensify with three of those storms - Hurricane Harvey, Irma and Maria - making landfall. When hurricanes intensify a large amount in a short period, scientists call this process rapid intensification. This is the hardest aspect of a storm to forecast and it can be most critical to people’s lives.While any hurricane can threaten lives and cause damage with storm surges, floods, and extreme winds, a rapidly intensifying hurricane can greatly increase these risks while giving populations limited time to prepare and evacuate. || ",
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            "release_date": "2017-03-28T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Vibration Testing of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope",
            "description": "Inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland the James Webb Space Telescope team completed the environmental portion of vibration testing on the telescope. || Vibration_Testing_of_NASAs_JWST_Cover_Image_print.jpg (1024x538) [467.0 KB] || Vibration_Testing_of_NASAs_JWST_Cover_Image.jpg (3350x1762) [2.3 MB] || Vibration_Testing_of_NASAs_JWST_Cover_Image_searchweb.png (320x180) [98.4 KB] || Vibration_Testing_of_NASAs_JWST_Cover_Image_thm.png (80x40) [7.0 KB] || Webb_Vibration_Testing_Social_Media_Video_2022.webmhd.webm (1080x606) [19.8 MB] || Webb_Vibration_Testing_Social_Media_Video.mov (1920x1080) [1023.2 MB] || Webb_Vibration_Testing_Social_Media_Video.mp4 (1920x1080) [109.7 MB] || Vibration_Testing_Socail_Media_Output.en_US.srt [1.4 KB] || Vibration_Testing_Socail_Media_Output.en_US.vtt [1.4 KB] || ",
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            "release_date": "2017-02-27T11:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "NASA Satellite Spots Moon’s Shadow over Patagonia",
            "description": "On Feb. 26, 2017, an annular eclipse of the sun was visible along a narrow path that stretched from the southern tip of South America, across the Atlantic Ocean and into southern Africa. Those lucky enough to find themselves in the eclipse’s path saw a fiery ring in the sky. Meanwhile, NASA’s Terra satellite saw the eclipse from space.During an annular eclipse, the moon passes between the sun and Earth, blocking sunlight and casting a shadow on Earth. But the moon is too far from Earth to completely obscure the sun, so the sun peeks out around the moon. Looking down on Earth, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, aboard NASA’s Terra satellite spotted the moon’s shadow over the Atlantic Ocean.Between two to four solar eclipses occur each year. Later this year, on Aug. 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse – in which the moon completely obscures the sun – will cross the United States, from Oregon to South Carolina. Visit eclipse2017.nasa.gov to learn more. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12359/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2016-09-01T11:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Hurricane Watch",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12146/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2016-02-09T11:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Building The Next Hubble",
            "description": "Scientists and engineers finish installing the primary mirrors on NASA's next-generation space observatory. || cf-1024.jpg (1024x576) [96.4 KB] || cf-1280.jpg (1280x720) [128.6 KB] || cf-1920.jpg (1920x1080) [203.0 KB] || cf-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [92.9 KB] || cf-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [30.7 KB] || cf-1024_web.png (320x180) [30.7 KB] || cf-1024_thm.png (80x40) [3.4 KB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4354/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2015-09-04T10:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Tropical Storm Fred",
            "description": "Animation of Tropical Storm Fred via GPM on August 30, 2015 at 0236 UTC. || fred.0280_print.jpg (1024x576) [162.5 KB] || fred_1080p30.mp4 (1920x1080) [16.5 MB] || 1920x1080_16x9_30p (1920x1080) [32.0 KB] || fred_1080p30.webm (1920x1080) [3.1 MB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11924/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2015-08-20T11:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Million Mile Moon Shot",
            "description": "A NASA camera captures a dramatic view of Earth and the moon from 1 million miles away. || c-1280.jpg (1280x720) [200.1 KB] || c-1024.jpg (1024x576) [141.1 KB] || c-1024_print.jpg (1024x576) [142.4 KB] || c-1024_searchweb.png (320x180) [62.1 KB] || c-1024_web.png (320x180) [62.1 KB] || c-1024_thm.png (80x40) [18.1 KB] || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11971/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2015-08-06T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "From a Million Miles Away, NASA Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth",
            "description": "This animation features actual satellite images of the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) and telescope, and the Earth - one million miles away. || DSCOVR_Earth_Moon_Dark_Side_print.jpg (1024x576) [70.3 KB] || DSCOVR_Earth_Moon_Dark_Side_searchweb.png (180x320) [39.5 KB] || DSCOVR_Earth_Moon_Dark_Side_thm.png (80x40) [3.3 KB] || APPLE_TV_DSCOVR_Earth_Moon_Dark_Side_appletv.m4v (1280x720) [5.9 MB] || YOUTUBE_HQ_DSCOVR_Earth_Moon_Dark_Side_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [4.0 MB] || WMV_DSCOVR_Earth_Moon_Dark_Side_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [2.3 MB] || NASA_TV_DSCOVR_Earth_Moon_Dark_Side.mpeg (1280x720) [54.9 MB] || DSCOVR_Earth_Moon_Dark_Side.mov (1920x1080) [5.7 MB] || DSCOVR_Earth_Moon_Dark_Side.webm (1080x606) [749.1 KB] || 4104x2304_16x9_30p (4104x2304) [32.0 KB] || NASA_PODCAST_DSCOVR_Earth_Moon_Dark_Side_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [1.7 MB] || DSCOVR_EPIC_11971.key [8.2 MB] || DSCOVR_EPIC_11971.pptx [6.5 MB] || PRORES_B-ROLL_DSCOVR_Earth_Moon_Dark_Side_prores.mov (1280x720) [176.2 MB] || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-10-06T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "HIWRAP Instrument",
            "description": "The HIWRAP is the High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler, a \"conically scanning\" Doppler radar, meaning it scans in a cone-shaped manner. Wind measurements are crucial for understanding and forecasting tropical storms since they are closely tied to the overall dynamics of the storm. The HIWRAP instrument is able to measure line-of-sight (along the radar beam) and because it scans in a cone beneath the aircraft, it gets two looks at most parts of the storm, allowing calculations of the 3-dimensional wind and rain fields. In the absence of rain, it can also measure ocean surface winds. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11666/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-09-18T16:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "HS3 Global Hawk Camera Timelapse",
            "description": "NASA released a time-lapse video that highlights three different cameras aboard NASA's remotely piloted Global Hawk aircraft No. 872 as it investigated two tropical systems in the Atlantic Ocean in early September 2014. The 2 minute and 40 second time lapse was created by Dave Fratello, HS3 payload manager of the NASA Global Hawk project at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.  The video highlights the imaging from the daylight, HDVis or high-definition Visualization camera and low light camera. The video begins using the daylight camera and shows the Global Hawk taking off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility runway in Virginia. || ",
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            "id": 11657,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11657/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-09-16T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "HS3: Cloud Physics Lidar",
            "description": "A short video about the Cloud Physics Lidar instrument onboard the HS3 Global Hawk aircraft.For complete transcript, click here. || CPL_Final_nasaportal00452_print.jpg (1024x576) [52.1 KB] || CPL_Final_nasaportal_print.jpg (1024x576) [55.3 KB] || CPL_Final_nasaportal_searchweb.png (320x180) [47.9 KB] || CPL_Final_nasaportal_web.png (320x180) [47.9 KB] || CPL_Final_nasaportal_thm.png (80x40) [4.3 KB] || CPL_Final_720x480.webmhd.webm (960x540) [30.9 MB] || CPL_Final_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [74.4 MB] || CPL_Final_appletv_subtitles.m4v (960x540) [69.7 MB] || CPL_Final_appletv.m4v (960x540) [69.8 MB] || CPL_Final_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [122.9 MB] || CPL_Final_nasaportal.mov (640x360) [62.4 MB] || CPL_Final_nasaportal.en_US.srt [3.2 KB] || CPL_Final_nasaportal.en_US.vtt [3.2 KB] || CPL_Final_720x480.wmv (720x480) [61.2 MB] || CPL_Final_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [28.1 MB] || CPL_Final_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [14.5 MB] || CPL_Final_prores.mov (1280x720) [2.4 GB] || ",
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            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2014-09-11T09:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "HS3 Global Hawk Observes winds from tropical depression A95L in September 2013",
            "description": "This visualization shows wind flows from Tropical Depression A95L in the Gulf of Mexico between September 19 and 20 of 2013.  The wind field was derived from data returned from dropsondes. The color of the winds represents altitude where ground-level winds are shown in white. Higher altitude winds, around 10km, are shown in orange and the highest altitude winds, around 15 km, are shown in red.These dropsondes are probes that were dropped from the Global Hawk unmanned vehicle (part of the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel project, HS3) as it flew in a lawnmower-like pattern over the storm.  As the dropsonde probes fell through the atmosphere, atmospheric measurements including wind direction are recorded.  Wind direction data from 88 different dropsondes were merged to create a single, derived flow field.  The visualization shows particles moving through the flow field.   The atmosphere is exaggerated 10 times to help differentiate various levels of the atmosphere.  Only a thin slice of the atmosphere is shown at any given time, represented by a moving horizontal window. Lower level winds show the cyclonic circulation associated with the tropical disturbance.  But, just above those cyclonic winds, the storm is thwarted by wind shear, prohibiting further development into a tropical cyclone.   NASA scientists use data from unmanned aircraft to better understanding why some storms develop into hurricanes and others do not. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11635/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-09-04T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "GPM Looks Inside a Snow Storm",
            "description": "On March 17, 2014 the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Core Observatory flew over the East coast's last snow storm of the 2013-2014 winter season. This was also one of the first major snow storms observed by GPM shortly after it was launched on February 27, 2014.The GPM Core Observatory carries two instruments that show the location and intensity of rain and snow, 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. || ",
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            "id": 11559,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11559/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-05-29T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "HS3: Global Hawks Soar into Storms",
            "description": "During this year's Atlantic hurricane season, NASA is redoubling its efforts to probe the inner workings of hurricanes and tropical storms with two unmanned Global Hawk aircraft flying over storms and two new space-based missions.NASA's airborne Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel or HS3 mission will revisit the Atlantic Ocean for the third year in a row.  HS3 is a collaborative effort that brings together several NASA centers with federal and university partners to investigate the processes that underlie hurricane formation and intensity change in the Atlantic Ocean basin. The flights from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia take place between Aug. 26 and Sept. 29 during the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. || ",
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        {
            "id": 11431,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11431/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2014-01-28T18:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "The Data Downpour",
            "description": "In a data-processing room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., racks of high-powered computers are getting ready to make a map. It's not the familiar satellite map of farms, forests and cities. Instead, this map will show what's hovering above the ground — snowfall and rainfall. The data will come from the Global Precipitation Measurement mission, an international partnership led by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The GPM Core Observatory will launch in early 2014, but the mission goes beyond data gathering data from one satellite. Eleven spacecraft from U.S. agencies and other countries, all carrying similar instruments to measure rainfall, will contribute data to this global rain map. Compiling observations from these eleven sources into one unified global data set is the job of the Precipitation Processing System at Goddard. || ",
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        {
            "id": 4102,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4102/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2013-09-10T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Global Hawk observes the Saharan Air Layer through the Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL) during Hurricane Nadine",
            "description": "NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel mission(HS3) is a mission that brings together several NASA centers with federal and university partners to investigate the processes that underlie hurricane formation and intensity change in the Atlantic Ocean basin. Among those factors, HS3 will address the controversial role of the hot, dry and dusty Saharan Air Layer(SAL) in tropical storm formation and intensification and the extent to which deep convection in the inner-core region of storms is a key driver of intensity change.One instrument used to investigate the SAL is the cloud physics lidar(CPL). CPL uses a laser to measure vertical profiles of dust; a dropsonde system that releases small instrumented packages from the aircraft that fall to the surface while measuring profiles of temperature, humidity, and winds; and an infrared sounder that measures temperature and humidity in clear-sky regions.The CPL is an airborne lidar system designed specifically for studying clouds and aerosols. CPL will study cloud- and dust-layer boundaries and will provide optical depth or thickness of aerosols and cloudsOn Sept. 11 and 12, during the 2012 HS3 mission, the NASA Global Hawk aircraft covered more than one million square kilometers (386,100 square miles) going back and forth over the storm in a gridded fashion in what's called a \"lawnmower pattern.\"Dropsonde data from HS3's flights show temperature and humidity conditions in the storm. In this movie, the dropsondes are colored with the relative humidity data where blue represents dry air and red represents moist air.For more information about NASA's HS3 mission, visit:http://www.nasa.gov/hs3 || ",
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            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2012-08-27T13:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "GPM Applications",
            "description": "Water is fundamental to life on Earth. Knowing where and how much rain and snow falls globally is vital to understanding how weather and climate impact both our environment and Earth's water and energy cycles, including effects on agriculture, fresh water availability, and responses to natural disasters. Since rainfall and snowfall vary greatly from place to place and over time, satellites can provide more uniform observations of rain and snow around the globe than ground instruments, especially in areas where surface measurements are difficult. GPM's next-generation global precipitation data will lead to scientific advances and societal benefits in the following areas: Improved knowledge of the Earth's water cycle and its link to climate change New insights into precipitation microphysics, storm structures and large-scale atmospheric processes Better understanding of climate sensitivity and feedback processes Extended capabilities in monitoring and predicting hurricanes and other extreme weather events Improved forecasting capabilities for natural hazards, including floods, droughts and landslides. Enhanced numerical prediction skills for weather and climate Better agricultural crop forecasting and monitoring of freshwater resources.For more information and resources please visit the Precipitation Measurement Missions web site. || ",
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