Global Precipitation Measurement

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	Educator Astronaut Program now available Availability and Quality of Water is Essential to Life on Earth [for teachers and kids] + View Web Site
	GPM Brochure Developing international partnerships to understand global precipitation and its impact on humankind. + View PDF
	Schiolastic's "The Magic School Bus Inside A Hurricane" This is a good source of information to learn about how powerful our earth's weather can be. + View Web Site
	Global Warming Experiment The Earth's average temperature rose by more than half a degree Celsius over the last century. What caused this change? Investigate into the causes and effects of global warming. + Conduct Experiment
	Signal Interference Mitigation for Microwave Radiometers (SIMMR) The purpose of this effort is to study a method for mitigating the effects of man-made radio-frequency interference (RFI) with microwave radiometry. + View Web Site

	Warming Oceans Could Mean Rainy Days in Paradise 3.03.2004 - A recent study of tropical oceans that used satellites including NASA's TRMM, found that rain in the tropics will become more frequent as ocean temperatures rise. + Read More
	Can you hear the Voice of Water? The 21st century is often called "the century of water." Water is an essential element of the Earth's environment and is indispensable for our life and economic activities. + Read More + View All GPM News

	Water for Tea Movie This movie is about the high-tech, high-profile GPM Mission. + Low Resolution Movie (8mb) + Medium Resolution Movie (23mb) + High Resolution Movie (57mb)
	The Promise Of Rain In this movie, viewers are encouraged to consider not only their own relationship to precipitation and climate but also the ways they affect our lives. + View Movie (8 kb) + View MPG (122 mb )
	The Water Cycle Movie This animation illustrates the evaporation to condensation to precipitation to ground water flow..... + Movie with text (45 mb) + Movie without text (25 mb) + Water Cycle Graphic: Low Res (120 k) High Res (3.7 mb) + View All Multimedia & Images

measurement rainfall thumbnail Science of Measuring Precipitation: Why It Matters
Water cycling and the future availability of fresh water resources are immense societal concerns that impact every nation on Earth....
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Why Measure Rainfall from Space?
Precipitation is difficult to measure because precipitation systems tend to be somewhat random in character and also evolve very rapidly....
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