{"id":6641,"date":"2016-04-06T21:17:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T01:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6641"},"modified":"2016-04-06T21:17:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T01:17:39","slug":"nasa-studies-of-raindrop-size-help-improve-modeling-of-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/04\/nasa-studies-of-raindrop-size-help-improve-modeling-of-storms\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA studies of raindrop size help improve modeling of storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, distributions of raindrop size were made mainly by flying airplanes with special equipment through rainstorms or catching drops on a surface that shows the drop size. \u00a0Now NASA has come up with a method for measuring the 3-dimensional pattern of raindrop sizes in a storm that may help computer modelers improve forecasts of rainfall and flooding. \u00a0The Global Precipitation Measurement mission is a joint project between NASA and Japan. \u00a0You can watch a 4-minute video about why drop size matters and read more about the project at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2016\/size-matters-nasa-measures-raindrop-sizes-from-space-to-understand-storms\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2016\/size-matters-nasa-measures-raindrop-sizes-from-space-to-understand-storms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/raindrop-size.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6642\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6642\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/raindrop-size-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"raindrop size\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/raindrop-size-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/raindrop-size-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/raindrop-size-253x138.jpg 253w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/raindrop-size.jpg 786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, distributions of raindrop size were made mainly by flying airplanes with special equipment through rainstorms or catching drops on a surface that shows the drop size. \u00a0Now NASA has come up with a method for measuring the 3-dimensional pattern of raindrop sizes in a storm that may help computer modelers improve forecasts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6643,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions\/6643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}