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TRMM<br />

<strong>Tropical</strong> Cyclone Science<br />

<strong>Tropical</strong> <strong>Rainfall</strong> <strong>Measuring</strong> <strong>Mission</strong><br />

•<strong>Rainfall</strong> climatologies in<br />

hurricanes<br />

•Radial distribution<br />

•Shear and motion induced<br />

asymmetries<br />

•Eyewall and rainband<br />

vertical structure and<br />

lightning<br />

•Contributions to global<br />

precipitation<br />

•Precipitation feature<br />

database characteristics<br />

•Data assimilation<br />

•Evaluation of storm structures in<br />

mesoscale models<br />

Shear<br />

direction<br />

Normalized <strong>Rainfall</strong> anomaly<br />

From Chen et al. (2006)<br />

•Case studies<br />

•Improved SST estimates in storm<br />

wakes<br />

Courtesy of H. Jiang<br />

G O D D A R D S P A C E F L I G H T C E N T E R 13

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