THE GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT (GPM) MISSION FOR SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

Bull Am Meteorol Soc. 2017 Aug;98(8):1679-1695. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00306.1. Epub 2017 Sep 6.

¹ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.
² NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, National Space Science and Technology Center, Huntsville, Alabama.
³ Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
⁴ University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, Maryland.
⁵ NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
⁶ National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan.
⁷ NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma.
⁸ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.
⁹ Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tokyo.
¹⁰ Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland.
¹¹ University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
¹² Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

Abstract

The GPM mission collects essential rain and snow data for scientific studies and societal benefit.