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Iowa Flood Studies

Weather

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Deployment
2
Platforms
33
Data Products

The Campaign

The Iowa Flood Studies (IFloodS) was a part of NASA's Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) Ground Validation (GV) aimed at providing satellite-validation of GPM satellite rainfall data. NASA along with the Iowa Flood Center (IFC) conducted IFloodS in April-June 2013 across portions of northeastern Iowa. Numerous ground radars, stream flow gauges and rain gauges were utilized to capture precipitation characteristics such as rainfall rate and drop size distribution (DSD). Rainfall measurements were taken in conjunction with satellite overpasses to help assess the accuracy of satellite rainfall retrieval when used for flood forecasting.

2013-04-10 — 2013-06-15

Iowa
boreal spring, wet

N: 44°N

S: 41°N

W: 95°W

E: 90°W

Additional Notes

IFloodS is one of several campaigns operated under the Ground Validation activities for the GPM satellite.

GPM SATELLITE MEASUREMENT VALIDATION
RAIN RATE
DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION
RAIN PROCESSES
PRECIPITATION
FORECASTING MODEL IMPROVEMENT
RAINDROP SIZE
RAINDROP SHAPE
PRECIPITATION PHYSICS
HYDROLOGY
GLOBAL PRECIPITATION
FLOODING
FLOOD FORECASTING
RAINFALL ESTIMATION
GPM
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Events

1 Deployment
1 IOP
4 Significant Events
20142015

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Platforms
PLATFORMS
Instruments
INSTRUMENTS
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/2DVD/DATA301
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/MRR/DATA201
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/NPOL/DATA102
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/APU/DATA301
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/XPOL/DATA201
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/APU/DATA401
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/GAUGES/DATA/101
Rain Gauge
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/GAUGE/DATA202
Rain Gauge
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/GAUGES/DATA301
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/NEXRAD/DATA101
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/NMQ/DATA101
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/D3R/DATA101
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/GAUGES/DATA201
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/CMORPH/DATA201
No related platforms, instruments or formats
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/GPROF/DATA101
No related platforms, instruments or formats
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/MULTIPLE/DATA201
No related platforms, instruments or formats
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/TMI/DATA201
No related platforms, instruments or formats
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/TMI/DATA101
No related platforms, instruments or formats
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/MULTIPLE/DATA401
No related platforms, instruments or formats
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/PERSIANN/DATA101
No related platforms, instruments or formats
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/INFRARED/DATA101
No related platforms, instruments or formats
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/REPORTS/DATA101
No related platforms, instruments or formats
External Linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/IFLOODS/MULTIPLE/DATA101
No related platforms, instruments or formats
NASA
GPM, GPM GV
Currently unavailable
Walt Petersen, Witold Krajewski
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
IFC
Currently unavailable