Aggregated Awareness

From the Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing, at the University of California Irvine, with funding from UNESCO's International Hydrological Programme and with the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), and its Irvine Division, comes this useful tool by CHRS which allows near real time mapping of global precipitation patterns using Google Earth as the application platform. (ed. Click on the above link to download the .KMZ file which can be opened using Google Earth by double clicking).