Ferraro hosts 1st NOAA User Workshop on the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission

Ralph Ferraro  hosted the 1st NOAA User Workshop on the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission at the M-Square Research Complex in College Park, MD on August 18-19. The two-day meeting, attended by approximately 50 scientists from NOAA and NASA, developed observational requirements for precipitation measurements at NOAA, and strategies to accelerate the use of GPM data at NOAA after the satellite is launched by NASA in 2013.