NASA’s New View of the Daily Cycle of Rain

Released Thursday, October 17, 2019

ID: 13348

- Visualizations by:
- Jackson Boon Sze Tan
- and Alex Kekesi
- Produced by:
- Joy Ng
- and Ryan Fitzgibbons
- Scientific consulting by:
- George Huffman,
- Dalia B Kirschbaum,
- and Stephen J. Munchak

The most detailed view of our daily weather has been created using NASA's newest extended precipitation record known as the Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM, or IMERG analysis.

The IMERG analysis combines almost 20 years of rain and snow data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and the joint NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement mission (GPM).

The daily cycle of weather, also known as the diurnal cycle, shapes how and when our weather develops and is fundamental to regulating our climate.

Complete transcript available.

Music Credits: "Battle For Our Future" and "Wonderful Orbit" by Tom Furse Fairfax Cowan [PRS], "Transitions" by Ben Niblett [PRS] and Jon Cotton [PRS], "Emerging Discovery by "Rik Carter [PRS] from Killer Tracks

For More Information

See https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/precipitation-missions-release-two-decades-of-rain-snow-data

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Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Data visualizers
- Jackson Boon Sze Tan (USRA)
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Producers
- Joy Ng (USRA)
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (USRA)
Scientists
- George Huffman (NASA/GSFC)
- Dalia B Kirschbaum (NASA/GSFC)
- Stephen J. Munchak (University of Maryland)