TRMM International Science Conference in Hawaii: Summer 2002 Resposible NASA Official: Dr. Robert Adler NASA/GSFC Security Notice and Accessability Notice ...

Mission The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, TRMM, is the first mission dedicated to measuring tropical and subtropical rainfall. Measurements from TRMM are used to find out where it's raining, and how hard it's raining. Not all clouds cause rain, and when rain does fall, it falls through various heights in the atmosphere, sometimes not reaching the ground at all! Because rain is so ...