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 ...

Hydrological models represent water movement in natural systems, and they are important for water resource planning and ...

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 ...

President Keiji Tachikawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Administrator Charles Bolden of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) signed a Memorandum of ...

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 ...

There are more than 150 NDAWN weather stations spread from Montana to Minnesota, many look similar to this one stationed at the NDSU research area in Fargo. One thing the NDSU Mesonet station has that ...

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 ...

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 ...

To ensure accurate precipitation measurements, the NWS has established guidelines for measuring and reporting snow and sleet totals and converting them into liquid equivalents. Measuring precipitation ...