GPM 10th Anniversary Tour

  • Released Wednesday, August 21, 2024
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Global tour of Earth - stopping off at 10 different spots to highlight significant precipitation events that GPM has covered over the past 10 years. These events include the 2014 Indian Monsoons, Hurricane Kilo in 2015, Hurricane Matthew in 2016, Hurricane Harvey in 2017, the Snow Bomb Cyclone in 2018, Hurricane Dorian in 2019, Hurricane Laura in 2020, El Nino/La Nina in 2021, Australian floods in 2022, Cyclone Freddy in 2023, and the IMERG monthly climatology data product produced in 2024.

The Global Precipitation Mission launched in 2014. Over the past decade GPM has been monitoring our skies for large precipitation events. This visualization uses Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) upon visiting a handful of significant weather events for each year of GPM's operation. These weather events are:
2014: Indian Monsoon
2015: Typhoon Kilo
2016: Hurricane Matthew
2017: Hurricane Harvey
2018: Bomb Cyclone
2019: Hurricane Dorian
2020: Hurricane Laura
2021: El Nino/La Nina
2022: Australia Flooding
2023: Cyclone Freddy
2024: IMERG Climatology

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This page was originally published on Wednesday, August 21, 2024.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 5:39 PM EDT.

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