Satellite Rainfall & Accumulation
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The above movie shows satellite observations of rainfall from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. The top map shows winter storms during the current El Niño winter in units of inches per day. The bottom map shows the accumulated rainfall for these same storms.

Below is the Oct. through Apr. accumulations for the last ten years. Note the storm track indicated roughly by the yellow - pink colors of previous years compared to this year's El Nino inspired storm track shaping up.












The Climate Systems Interactions (CSI) group is led by Prof. J. David Neelin of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Web page design Joyce Meyerson.

*From Neelin, J. D., 2011: Climate Change and Climate Modeling. Cambridge Univ. Press., Cambridge, UK.
**Reynolds sea surface temperature (Reynolds et al. 2002) and GPCP precipitation (Adler et al. 2003) data provided by the NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSD, Boulder, Colorado, USA.