Steven P. Neeck

TL;DR: The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission is an international satellite mission specifically designed to set a new standard for the measurement of precipitation from space and to provide a new generation of global rainfall and snowfall observations in all parts of the world every 3 h as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Smith, Ghassem Asrar, Yoji Furuhama, Amnon Ginati, Christian Kummerow, Vincenzo Levizzani, Alberto Mugnai, Kenji Nakamura, Robert Adler, Vincent Casse, Mary Cleave, Michele Debois, John Durning, Jared Entin, Paul Houser, Toshio Iguchi, Ramesh Kakar, Jack Kaye, Masahiro Kojima, Dennis Lettenmaier, Michael Luther, Amita Mehta, Pierre Morel, Tetsuo Nak

TL;DR: The mission of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise (ESE) is to develop a scientific understanding of the Earth system and its response to natural and human-induced changes to enable improved prediction of climate, weather, and natural hazards for present and future generations.

TL;DR: The Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission as discussed by the authors is a partnership between two communities, the physical oceanography and hydrology, to share high vertical accuracy and high spatial resolution topography data produced by the science payload, principally a Ka-band radar Interferometer (KaRIn).

TL;DR: The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission is an international partnership co-led by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), which consists of an international network, or constellation, of additional satellites that together will provide next-generation global observations of precipitation from space as mentioned in this paper.