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[ Release of "JAXA 3D RAINFALL WATCH" website ] June 14, 2022
"JAXA 3D RAINFALL WATCH" website provides images and videos of three-dimensional rainfall observed by the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR), which measures rainfall in three dimensions from space.
[ Today's Earth Research and Development Group received The Fifth Space Development and Utilization Grand Prize by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. ] March 18, 2022
Prof. Kei Yoshimura(JAXA/UT), Dr. Wenchao Ma(UT) and Mr. Kosuke Yamamoto(JAXA), who were involved in the development of "Today's Earth," a global terrestrial hydrological simulation system that makes effective use of satellite data including GSMaP, received The Fifth Space Development and Utilization Grand Prize by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.
[ Eight years have passed since the GPM Core Observatory was launched! ] February 28, 2022
Eight years have passed since the GPM Core Observatory was launched from the JAXA Tanegashima Space Center on February 28, 2014!
The GPM Core Observatory continues to observe the global precipitation till now. Taking over the will of TRMM, we hope that the GPM Core Observatory will live longer.