Earth ID: 4291

IMERG Precipitation Rates from Hurricane Bertha

Visualizations by Alex Kekesi and Horace Mitchell Released on March 31, 2015

Animation showing the precipitation left by Hurricane Bertha as it churned off the United States East Coast. It then weakens from Hurricane status. However, despite it's loss of Hurricane strength, the remaining storm proceeds to march across the Atlantic eventually drenching the United Kingdom.

NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement mission has produced its first global map of rainfall and snowfall. The GPM Core Observatory launched one year ago on Feb. 27, 2014 as a collaboration between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and acts as the standard to unify precipitation measurements from a network of 12 satellites. The result is NASA's Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM data product, called IMERG, which combines data from all 12 satellites into a single, seamless map. The map covers more of the globe than any previous precipitation data set and is updated every half hour, allowing scientists to see how rain and snow storms move around nearly the entire planet. As scientists work to understand all the elements of Earth's climate and weather systems, and how they could change in the future, GPM provides a major step forward in providing the scientific community comprehensive and consistent measurements of precipitation.

Color bar for liquid precipitation rates (ie, rain rates). Shades of green represent low amounts of liquid precipitation, whereas shades of red represent high amounts of precipitation.

Visualization Credits

Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC): Lead Data Visualizer
George Huffman (NASA/GSFC): Lead Scientist
Gail Skofronick Jackson (NASA/GSFC): Lead Scientist
Dalia B Kirschbaum (NASA/GSFC): Lead Scientist
Ryan Fitzgibbons (USRA): Lead Producer
Rani Gran (NASA/GSFC): Producer
Kel Elkins (USRA): Animator
Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Animator

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Missions:
Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM)
Hurricanes

Data Used:

also referred to as: IMERG

Data Compilation - NASA/GSFC - 8/4/14 00:00 - 8/11/14 23:30Z

http://pmm.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/document_files/IMERG_ATBD_V4.4.pdf

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Keywords:
DLESE >> Atmospheric science
DLESE >> Natural hazards
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Precipitation
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Atmospheric Phenomena >> Hurricanes
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Precipitation >> Precipitation Rate
SVS >> Climate >> Precipitation
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0