GPM Gets Flake-y
The Global Precipitation Measurement can help improve numerical weather predictions of snowfall by measuring the size and shape distribution of snow particles, layer by layer, in a storm.
Music: "Piano Cells," Anthony Phillips, Killer Tracks.
Snowflake Images courtesy of Alexey Kljatov.
Complete transcript available.
Animation of molecular bonding of a typical snowflake.
Animation showing a snowflake growing.
Illustrative representation of how the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission can detect the size and shape distribution of snowflake particles within layers of a cloud.
Credits
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producer
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (USRA)
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Scientists
- Gail Skofronick Jackson (NASA/GSFC)
- George Huffman (NASA/GSFC)
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Interviewee
- Gail Skofronick Jackson (NASA/GSFC)
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Animator
- Lisa Poje (USRA)
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Videographers
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- John Caldwell (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Project support
- Andy Heymsfield (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research)
Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, February 17, 2017.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:47 PM EDT.
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