NASA heads to Pacific Northwest for field campaign to measure rain and snowfall
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 - 17:00
in Astronomy & Space
From Nov. 10 through Dec. 21, NASA and university scientists are taking to the field to study wet winter weather near Seattle, Washington. With weather radars, weather balloons, specialized ground instruments, and NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory, the science team will be verifying rain and snowfall observations made by the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite mission.