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2023 PMM Science Team Meeting

Dates
Location
Minneapolis, MN

The meeting is by invitation* to Precipitation Measurement Mission (PMM) Science Team members and specified affiliates. Monday, September 18, 2023, is devoted to working group meetings. Tuesday through Thursday, September 19-21, 2023, will consist of general oral and poster sessions covering mission/program status, partner reports, science activities, field campaign results, and other science team business.  Friday, September 22, 2023, is devoted to algorithm team meetings (all Science Team Meeting attendees are invited).

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PMM

2022 PMM Science Team Meeting

Dates
Location
Denver, CO

On behalf of NASA's Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM) Science Program, we are pleased to invite you to attend our next science team meeting to be held on October 3-7, 2022, at the Sonesta Denver Downtown, in Denver, CO.

The meeting is by invitation* to Precipitation Measurement Mission (PMM) Science Team members and specified affiliates.

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PMM

2021 PMM Science Team Meeting

Dates
Location
Virtual (Microsoft Teams)

The meeting is by invitation to Precipitation Measurement Mission (PMM) Science Team members and specified affiliates.

Due to the Delta variant and rising numbers of COVID cases, as well as the fact that only a relatively small number of team members were expected to attend the meeting in Arizona in person, our science team meeting will switch to a virtual format this year.  
 
The dates will remain the same, Monday, October 18 through Friday, October 22. All times will be Eastern Daylight Savings time. 
 

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PMM

2020 PMM Science Team Meeting

Dates
Location
Virtual (Microsoft Teams)

The meeting is by invitation to Precipitation Measurement Mission (PMM) Science Team members and specified affiliates. Monday, October 19, 2020, is devoted to working group meetings. Tuesday – Thursday, October 20-22, will consist of general oral and poster sessions covering mission/program status, partner reports, science activities, field campaign results, and other science team business.  Friday, October 23, is devoted to algorithm team meetings (all Science Team Meeting attendees are invited).

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PMM

Tutorial: How to Access the new PPS FTPS Servers

GPM flying over Earth with a data swath visualized.
Monday, September 9, 2019
Due to NASA network policies the NASA Precipitation Processing System (PPS) will be transitioning from FTP to FTPS for access to download GPM and TRMM data. As a result of this change, users may need to update the methods they use to download data. Due to these changes users will no longer be able to access the PPS FTPS servers using a web browser, and will need to connect using either the command line or dedicated file transfer software. One piece of software that can be used to connect to the new FTPS servers is Filezilla, which is free and open source, and is available on Mac, Windows, and...
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TMPA Shows El Niño Conditions in the Pacific

TMPA Shows El Niño Conditions in the Pacific
Monday, April 15, 2019
An El Niño that began to form last fall has matured and is now fully entrenched across the Pacific. Changes in sea surface temperatures, or SSTs, brought about by an El Niño affect the atmosphere, resulting in distinctive changes in the rainfall pattern across the Pacific Basin. These changes show up as anomalies or deviations in NASA’s analysis of climatological rainfall. This map shows sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies for the Pacific Basin, shown as degrees Celsius above or below average. Credit: NOAA Climate Prediction Center. In a typical El Niño, warmer than average SSTs off of the...
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Finding Strong Storms with TRMM & GPM

Finding Strong Storms with TRMM & GPM
Monday, April 15, 2019
Spring is severe storms season here in the US, but not everyone has NEXRAD radar coverage; however, NASA’s TRMM and GPM satellites with their onboard radars have made it possible to search the entire global Tropics and midlatitudes and systematically identify areas where there are strong to intense thunderstorms. Researchers now headed by Dr. Chuntao Liu at Texas A&M University have built a comprehensive database of “precipitation features” based on regions of contiguous radar echoes from first the TRMM and now the GPM satellite. These precipitation features can then be mined to locate areas...
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2019 PMM Science Team

GPM flying over Earth with a data swath visualized.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Science Mission Directorate, Earth Science Division has selected new projects from the 2018 Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM) Science Team focus area solicitation. PMM projects focus on investigations related to satellite observations of precipitation using measurements from, but not limited to, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, GPM mission constellation partner spacecraft, and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). Specifically the PMM program supports three types of investigations: (1) The...
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Using Precipitation Data to Map Cholera Risk

Using Precipitation Data to Track Cholera
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Diarrheal diseases such as cholera continue to be a public health threat. Prediction of an outbreak of diarrheal disease, specifically cholera, following a natural disaster remains a challenge, especially in regions lacking basic safe civil infrastructure such as water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). The underlying mechanism of a cholera outbreak is associated with disruption in the human access to safe WASH infrastructure that results in the population using unsafe water containing pathogenic vibrios. Presence and abundance of Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, are related to modalities of the environment and regional weather as well as the climate systems.
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