Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
November, 1997 to February, 2016

TRMM is a joint NASA/JAXA (formerly NASDA) mission within NASA's ESE (Earth Science Enterprise) program with a low-inclination (equatorial) orbit. NASA/GSFC provides the satellite, four passive sensors, and mission operations, NASDA the launch vehicle (H-II rocket) and the precipitation radar instrument. Each agency processes the data from its own instruments. TRMM is the first mission dedicated to observing and understanding tropical and subtropical rainfall, one of the most important, but least understood parameters in global change.

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http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/, http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/TRMM/

Instrument	Datasets
Cloud and the Earth's Radiant Energy System	0
Precipitation Radar	1
TRMM Microwave Imager	23
Visible Infra-red Scanner	1
Lightning Imaging Sensor	0

Also known as :

• missionID 215 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission TRMM (ceos lexicon)
• resource Tropical_Rainfall_Measuring_Mission (dbpedia lexicon)
• Source TRMM (ornl lexicon)
• Platform TRMM (podaac lexicon)