NASA | First Global Rainfall and Snowfall Map from New Mission

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 all of these data from 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.

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[AmericanIndustrialCoGroup]

This is a spectacular first step in understanding weather, so we can start improving it & eliminating disasters...

[DeathlyTired]

That's an amazing data set & visualisation.

[CowsRme]

I watched pockets of precipitation form over my home and land in the UK. too cool

[Jagerbomber]

Really cool to see the rain in the rainforests (if that's not just an anomaly).

[morganssonggmail]

*NASA Releases First Global Rainfall and Snowfall Map from New Mission*


Thank you,

[theandonlypof]

Now I'm curious about precipitation closer to the poles. It's a pity this map (and GPM?) doesn't cover those regions.

[borhanuddin]

Look at bay of Bengal, Bangladesh, Mayanmar.

[Hungrybear]

Amazing! is there any way to measure how many rainbows the rain creates? WHAT DOES IT MEAN!

[composerryan]

wow you can really tell which places never get any precipitation. I will never be able to un-see these dry spots now

[ASTROTIGRE]

In the southern hemisphere rotates clockwise, while in the north is the opposite.

[Paleonycteris]

AMAZING. "Science rules" (Bill Nye, 1990's) ;-)

[DOGG]

10x10K is 'high resolution'? Damn!

[ryanlapidus]

This is really cool guys, but can we get a 3d global model that we can rotate in real time?

[MrKorton]

What´s with the imaginary line of disappearing rain on the 60th latitude N? I´m from Iceland and wanted to see the rain coming there but

[ASTROTIGRE]

In the southern hemisphere rotates clockwise, while in the north is the opposite

[RC]

@Swearing Ape
Boy are you barking up the wrong philosophical tree!
You obviously have no idea who or what you're dealing with here.
😄
I'm a non-religious (let alone fundamentalist) former physics major.
Just go find a stupider target who'll be intimidated by your ranting. I'm not.
Facts obviously don't enter into your self-absorbed little world. Keep it to yourself. You're not worth the time. Mine, or anyone else's.