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International Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Program and Mission: An Overview

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Measuring Precipitation From Space

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    Eric A. Smith

  2. Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA

    Ghassem Asrar

  3. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tokyo, Japan

    Yoji Furuhama

  4. ESA/European Space Research & Technology Center, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

    Amnon Ginati

  5. Ist. di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma, Italy

    Alberto Mugnai

  6. Inst. of Hydrology & Atmospheric Science, Nagoya Univ., Furocho, Chikuaku, Nagoya, Japan

    Kenji Nakamura

  7. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    Robert F. Adler

  8. Dept. of Atmospheric Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Ming-Dah Chou

  9. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifiique, Ecole Polytechnique/LMD, Palaiseau, France

    Michel Desbois

  10. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    John F. Durning

  11. Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA

    Jared K. Entin

  12. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    Franco Einaudi

  13. National Environmental Satellite Data Information Service, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD, USA

    Ralph R. Ferraro

  14. Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Osservazione della Terra, Roma, Italy

    Rodolfo Guzzi

  15. School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    Paul R. Houser

  16. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    Paul H. Hwang

  17. National Inst. of Information & Communications Technology, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

    Toshio Iguchi

  18. Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Paul Joe

  19. Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA

    Ramesh Kakar

  20. Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA

    Jack A. Kaye

  21. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Japan

    Masahiro Kojima

  22. Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    Christian Kummerow

  23. Caelum Inc, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    Kwo-Sen Kuo

  24. Dept. of Hydrology, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Dennis P. Lettenmaier

  25. Ist. di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, via Gobetti 101, I-40129, Bologna, Italy

    Vincenzo Levizzani

  26. National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China

    Naimeng Lu

  27. JCET/UMBC, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    Amita V. Mehta

  28. Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

    Carlos Morales

  29. Univ. of Paris, Paris, France

    Pierre Morel

  30. Meteorological Research Inst, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan

    Tetsuo Nakazawa

  31. Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA

    Steven P. Neeck

  32. Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Osaka Prefecture Univ, Saki, Osaka, Japan

    Ken'ichi Okamoto

  33. JAXA/Earth Observation Research & Application Center, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Riko Oki

  34. Indian Space Research Organization, Bangalore, India

    Garudachar Raju

  35. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    J. Marshall Shepherd

  36. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    Joanne Simpson

  37. Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

    Byung- Ju Sohn

  38. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    Eric F. Stocker

  39. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    Wei-Kuo Tao

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    Jacques Testud

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    Eric F. Wood

  43. GMU, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    Song Yang

  44. Dept. of Observation & Telecom, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China

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Smith, E.A. et al. (2007). International Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Program and Mission: An Overview. In: Levizzani, V., Bauer, P., Turk, F.J. (eds) Measuring Precipitation From Space. Advances In Global Change Research, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5835-6_48

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