GPM April Showers Bring May Flowers Live Shots 4.1.15

  • Released Tuesday, March 31, 2015
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April Showers Bring May Flowers.

NASA scientists talk about the new global portrait of rain and snow and why this world-wide view of precipitation is important for everything from knowing how much freshwater is available to drink, to forecasting natural disasters like hurricanes and floods, to understanding Earth in a changing climate.

NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement mission – GPM – sees through clouds to produce the most detailed world-wide view of rain, light rain and snow every 30 minutes. Scientists can now see weather fronts in the Southern Ocean, snow at the tops of hurricanes and watch a storm on the East Coast travel across the Atlantic bringing deluge of rain that causes flooding in England.

A constellation of a dozen satellites provides this unprecidented look inside rain clouds, hurricanes and blizzards, giving scientists new insights into how these storms develop and intensify, which will improve weather forecasting.

For "A week in the life of rain" click here.

Dr. Dalia Kirschbaum - NASA Scientist

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Dr. Gail Skofronick-Jackson - NASA Scientist

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Dr. Eric Brown de Colstoun - NASA Scientist

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Dr. Eric Brown de Colstoun - NASA Scientist

This interview is in Spanish. There is no transcript.

Dr. George Huffman

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This page was originally published on Tuesday, March 31, 2015.
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