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Gail Skofronick-Jackson

Researcher at Goddard Space Flight Center

Publications -  54
Citations -  3197

Gail Skofronick-Jackson is an academic researcher from Goddard Space Flight Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Global Precipitation Measurement & Snow. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 53 publications receiving 2433 citations. Previous affiliations of Gail Skofronick-Jackson include University of Maryland, Baltimore & NASA Headquarters.

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So, How Much of the Earth's Surface Is Covered by Rain Gauges?

TL;DR: The measurement of global precipitation, both rainfall and snowfall, is critical to a wide range of users and applications and the number of gauges available, or appropriate for a particular study, varies greatly across the Earth due to temporal sampling resolutions, periods of operation, data latency and data access.

So, how much of the Earth's surface is covered by rain gauges?

TL;DR: The number of available rain gauges varies greatly across the Earth due to temporal sampling resolutions, periods of operation, data latency and data access as discussed by the authors, and the distribution of the available data across the globe.
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The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager (GMI): Instrument Overview and Early On-Orbit Performance

TL;DR: An overview of the GMI instrument and a report of early on-orbit commissioning activities are provided, which discusses the on- orbit radiometric sensitivity, absolute calibration accuracy, and stability for each radiometric channel.