The National Weather Service (NWS) is the authority when it comes to weather measurement and reporting. To ensure accurate precipitation measurements, the NWS has established guidelines for measuring ...

GREENBELT, Md. – NASA’s effort to deploy the first satellite mission to advance global precipitation observations from space moved closer to this goal when agency officials approved critical elements ...

Measuring the amount of precipitation that falls in a specific location is simple if that location has a device designed to accurately record and transmit precipitation data. In contrast, measuring ...

Abstract As a component of Earth’s hydrologic cycle, and especially at higher latitudes, falling snow creates snowpack accumulation that in turn provides a large proportion of the freshwater resources ...

>> GROUND TRUTH INFORMATION IS AN INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR US. >> COCORAHS STANDS FOR COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE RAIN, HAIL, AND SNOW NETWORK. AND ANDY BOXELL SAYS THIS VOLUNTEER ...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Md., will host this month’s Sunday Experiment on Jan. 19 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST. It’s a free afternoon for elementary school-aged ...

NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA are looking to repeat their joint success on the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) with a follow-on flight that would piggyback on other spacecraft ...

It's a drizzly day here in Cincinnati. A downpour of rain Wednesday morning led the National Weather Service in Wilmington, Ohio, to cancel a dense fog advisory, as rain in the air actually improved ...

During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama said he would work to launch "without further delay" the Global Precipitation Measurement mission, "an international effort to improve climate, weather, ...