ESSIC senior faculty specialist Chris Grassotti and a team of scientists used the first results from the ATMS microwave instrument aboard JPSS-1/NOAA-20, a satellite launched in November, to generate images of total precipitable water. The data appears very consistent with that of Suomi-NPP, the satellite’s predecessor which is still in operation.
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