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Image of an Atmospheric River hitting the US West Coast on 31 January 2024 displaying IMERG Precipitation Rate overlaid on true-color reflectance image from the VIIRS instrument aboard the NOAA-20 satellite

Atmospheric River Hits the U.S. West Coast

Base image captured Jan 31, 2024, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-20 satellite, overlaid with IMERG Precipitation Rate.
Worldview Image of the Week
An artist's conception of the TROPICS SmallSat constellation in space over a tropical cyclone

Provisional TROPICS Data Now Available

Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of SmallSats (TROPICS) Pathfinder data released.
Feature Article
This graphic shows a global positioning system satellite beaming a signal through Earth's atmosphere. The navigation satellite is on the far left of the image and has an orange-colored signal line extending in a straight line to the right. A light blue box with the words GPS Satellite is in the upper left corner. In the lower right corner of the image is Earth colored in blue and green. The image background is colored black.

Weather Ballooning from Space

A NASA-funded project is creating a cloud-based radio occultation data archive for atmospheric researchers.
Feature Article
Headshot of Dr. Fadji Z. Maina, Associate Research Scientist, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland–Baltimore County.

Dr. Fadji Z. Maina

Data from NASA’s NSIDC DAAC help scientists like Dr. Fadji Z. Maina research hydrological change in High Mountain Asia.
Data User Story
Headshot of Dr. Anna Wilson, Field Research Manager at the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego.

Dr. Anna Wilson

Data from NASA’s GHRC DAAC helps scientists like Dr. Anna Wilson develop accurate representations of atmospheric rivers to increase forecast accuracy and improve weather model outputs.
Data User Story
Dr. Nadia Smith

Dr. Nadia Smith

Data from NASA’s GES DISC helps scientists like Dr. Nadia Smith build and improve retrieval systems that provide important information to climate scientists and meteorologists around the globe.
Data User Story
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