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Appendix A: NOAA White Paper: NOAA Cooperation with NASA on the Global Precipitation Mission
Pages 111-116

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... Martner The distribution of water and its change over time are two of the most critical issues facing the world's population. The single most destructive weatherwater-climate hazard is flooding, which can result from heavy precipitation from either relatively short-lived "weather" phenomenon (e.g., severe storms, tropical cyclones)
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From page 114...
... and advanced ground-based re mote sensors to measure precipitation, clouds, and water vapor indepen dently of the over-flying satellite instruments." In addition, NOAA should develop techniques for integrating GPM data into its operational precipitation analysis systems and for assimilating these analyses into weather, water and climate forecast models. These techniques should account for uncertainty in GPM products and for the propagation of this uncertainty by atmospheric and hydrological models.
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... B Ongoing cooperative R&D activities with NASA that focus on the areas of precipitation retrieval from satellites and their applications (e.g., Glo bal Precipitation Climatology Project, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, etc.)
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... d. Dedicated networks and circuits for operational distribution to global customers, including all national forecast centers As a more formal way to become partners on GPM, it is recommended that NOAA and NASA establish a new component to the existing Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation that will focus on precipitation measurements and applications.
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Key Terms

  • global precipitation
  • tropical cyclone
  • precipitation estimates
  • satellite data
  • operational precipitation

  • flash flood
  • science team
  • joint center
  • forecast model
  • retrieval algorithms

  • global hydrologic
  • measure precipitation


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