"In a few weeks a veritable army of meteorologists will descend upon the Olympic Mountains of Washington State with radars, aircraft, rain gauges, and other meteorological sensors. All of these resources and participants will be part of the OLYMPEX field program, whose primary goal will be to help NASA evaluate and improve its latest earth-observation satellite: the GPM satellite, which possesses an advanced downward-looking weather radar."

http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2015/10/o ... month.html

I hope they spend plenty of money locally, our economy can use the boost.

This is sort of a big deal. I helped on the optical (microwave) design side of flight hardware for another GPM satellite.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GPM/main/index.html