Space-Based Precipitation Observations: Innovations for Science and Applications I Poster

[12-Dec-2023]
Abstract:  Precipitation processes drive the Earth's water cycle, weather, and climate, and are key to habitability around the world. Global precipitation observations have been vital for investigating processes that impact extreme weather, hydrologic forecasts, and infrastructure, with the TRMM and GPM missions setting standards for global precipitation science and applications. New and future missions such as AOS, EarthCARE, CIMR, EPS-SG, GOSAT-GW, INCUS, TEMPEST, TROPICS, and WSF-M will continue to improve our observational record and our understanding and modeling of physical processes. Advancing precipitation science requires complementary observations from spaceborne and suborbital platforms to document detailed interaction processes, small spatial scales and poorly resolved short temporal components, and through model-observation synergy that enhances model accuracy and scientists’ insight into observations. This session invites innovative contributions in all areas of precipitation science and applications with emphasis on the use of space-based observations, including missions, instrumentation, algorithms, products, validation, extremes, physical processes and models.