# Presentation: 536912

## NOAA’s Participation on the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission

**Marie Colton, Ralph Ferraro and Arnold Gruber**** **
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**NOAA/NESDIS**
**Center for Satellite Applications & Research**

**Notes:**
Switch john and mitch’s name

## Outline	

- Describe NOAA’s interest in GPM
- Connections to NOAA Strategic Plan
- NOAA requirements
- Discuss possible partnering opportunities with NASA
- Satellite assets
- Validation assets
- Joint science opportunities
- Risk reduction
- Near-term activities
- NOAA budget and planning process
- Science team participation

## NOAA’s Four Main Mission Goals

- Protect, restore, and manage the use of coastal and ocean resources through ecosystem-based management.
- Understand climate variability and change to enhance society’s ability to plan and respond.
- Serve society’s need for weather and water information.
- Support the Nation’s commerce with information for safe, efficient, and environmentally sound transportation.

**Part of NOAA’s strategy to meet these goals is to seek partnerships**
**with both national and international agencies.**

## Serve society’s need for weather and water information

- Flooding and storm related damage account for $11 billion annually in U.S.
- NOAA’s goals under “Weather and Water” include:
- Increased accuracy and lead time for warnings
- Better customer satisfaction – water resource managers, emergency managers, federal/state/local governments....
- Strategies to accomplish these goals include:
- Increased _observations _from NOAA and non-NOAA systems
- Increase number of _new research findings_
- Shorten cycle time from _research into operations_

## Drought

**Drought**

- Wet

## Slide 6

## NOAA’s Linkage to GPM

- GPM really is a cross-cut into all of the four NOAA mission goals.  However, the best linkage is to “Weather and Water”
- An improved space-borne global monitoring of rainfall would supplement NOAA’s current satellite, surface and radar observations.  GPM fits the bill nicely!
- NOAA is lacking a true satellite-based precipitation mission – GPM can bridge that gap and offer a prototype operational capability into NPOESS/GOES-R era.
- It also offers a “risk reduction” exercise for future operational missions
- GPM offers a tremendous potential to improve NOAA’s global precipitation monitoring and will achieve global, 3-hourly coverage with microwave sensors.
- May 30, 2002 *Workshop Report on NOAA’s Requirements for Global Precipitation Data* strongly recommends NOAA’s partnering with NASA on GPM

## Partnering Opportunities

- NASA Precipitation Missions Science team
- Four NOAA PI’s selected in 2003
- Possible future joint announcement of opportunity
- Satellite Assets
- Geostationary satellites
- NPOESS, ground stations, real time interface to users.
- Validation/Ground Assets
- Gauge, radar, profiler, networks
- Data archival and distribution
- Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System** (CLASS)** in place and evolving
- Applications/Product Utilization
- JCSDA – data assimilation
- Hurricane forecasting
- Hydrometeorological Automated Data System (HADS)
- Field office use – flash floods, heavy precipitation events
- Office of Hydrology- river forecasting

## NOAA’s near term activities

- Bring  GPM in NOAA Program Planning Activity
- Continue interactions with W&W team, and other NOAA Goal Teams
- Get GPM into FY07 budget
- Joint science announcement
- Algorithm development
- Risk reduction activities
- Real time data distribution
- Continue to meet with the NOAA/NASA Ad Hoc Group on GPM to fine tune partnering activities.