Top Results for Precipitation
Launched in 1997, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission was a joint American and Japanese effort to study tropical and subtropical precipitation. NASA worked with Japan's space agency, then known as NASDA and later incorporated into JAXA. TRMM carried several instruments, including the first space...
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Landmark NASA-JAXA rainfall mission, long-lived far beyond design life, heavily cited and foundational for tropical precipitation science.
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The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory is a joint environmental satellite project developed by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Launched in February 2014, the spacecraft functions as the central calibration reference for an international constellation of w...
Why this score
Strong NASA-JAXA precipitation mission improving weather and climate data, respected operational science platform.
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