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for hundreds of millions of people

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throughout the world tropical rain

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systems are a life-sustaining resource

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but these systems can turn violent and

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dangerous spawning deadly storms and

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related natural disasters since its

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launch in 1997 the tropical rainfall

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measuring mission or travel satellite

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has become the world's most widely used

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space-based resource for measuring

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Earth's precipitation a key to

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understanding how weather effects and

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changes life here on our planet

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understanding the Earth's climate and

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how it responds to change relies on what

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we know about how atmospheric moisture

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clouds latent heating and large-scale

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atmospheric and oceanic circulation vary

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with changing climate conditions the

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physical process that links these key

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climate elements is precipitation the

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first satellite with a rain radar and

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microwave imager combination trim

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produces data used to verify and improve

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meteorological computer models so

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important to forecasters and

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climatologists across the globe in fact

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trim has become the reference standard

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by which rain is measured from space you

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may not have crim up there but you may

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have some other satellite up there when

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it is raining now this satellite is

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producing calibrated information because

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its calibration is based upon crimped

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trims data have proven invaluable for

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not only predicting the track and

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intensity of tropical storms and

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hurricanes but also for forecasting the

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deadly floods and landslides they can

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cause in our

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the other on Noah but many other

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agencies around the world are using this

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data to do a better job of forecasting

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data from trem are used to fix the

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location and intensity of tropical

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storms more than 600 times each year to

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learn more about trap follow its up to

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date tracking of a tropical storm or

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perhaps monitor the threat of landslides

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and floods around the globe go to ww na