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Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

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TRMM<br />

Summary<br />

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

• Space standard for measuring<br />

precipitation<br />

• Improved climatology of tropical<br />

rainfall and variations<br />

• Vertical hydrometeor/heating<br />

structure and diurnal signal<br />

• Improved climate and weather<br />

modeling<br />

• Impact of humans on<br />

precipitation<br />

• Hurricane/typhoon<br />

structure/evolution<br />

• Multi-satellite (~3-hr) rainfall<br />

analyses using TRMM+other<br />

satellites<br />

• Flood and agricultural<br />

applications<br />

• Operational use of data by<br />

Estimated Publications by year<br />

>3000 scientific journal<br />

articles published using<br />

TRMM data<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 14

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