NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The TRMM satellite, managed jointly by NASA and the Japanese Space Agency, has surpassed the scientific results the science community expected of the satellite when it first began providing daily rainfall data 10 years ago. Since 1998, the satellite has produced unprecedented near-real-time information on precipitation that has advanced climate, weather and applied research. The satellite's first and only weather radar in space has made it an historic mission.

Scientists across the globe have TRMM's state-of-the-art precipitation radar, microwave imager, and visible and infrared scanner instruments, and low-altitude orbit to thank for notable research achievements over the last decade.

In recognition of the 10th anniversary of the first scientific results from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, media are invited to a media roundtable today, Jan. 23 at 11 a.m. EST (10 a.m. CST). Scientists from NASA and other institutions will discuss how they have used the satellite's data as an essential tool in recent research, and the contribution TRMM data have made to their work in the last decade. The roundtable is taking place during the 88th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Room 202, in New Orleans, La.

Panelists:

• Christa Peters-Lidard, branch head, Hydrological Sciences, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
  
• Marshall Shepherd, associate professor, Atmospheric Sciences Program, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens
  
• Bob Adler, senior research scientist, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland-College Park, and former TRMM project scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
  
• Ed Zipser, professor, Department of Meteorology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

Scientific Presentations:

Christa Peters-Lidard


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Marshall Shepherd


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Robert Adler


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Ed Zipser


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Gretchen Cook-Anderson
Goddard Space Flight Center