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Precipitation Data Access and Tools
NASA has a wide range of precipitation data, from hourly rainfall estimates to reanalysis datasets looking back decades. Our datasets and tools help users spot characteristics, trends, patterns, and anomalies in the precipitation that falls to Earth and understand how it affects natural areas and human communities.
Precipitation Data Tools
| Tool Sort descending | Description | Services | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worldview | Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization, Access, Comparison, Monitoring Natural Events |
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Featured Precipitation Observation Method: GPM
NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) platform provides next-generation global observations of rain and snow to help researchers better understand Earth's water and energy cycles and forecast extreme weather and related events.
During this webinar we will provide an overview of TRMM and GPM precipitation data products and discuss the various ways to discover and access these data. We will also demonstrate the visualization and analysis tools and services provided by NASA's Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC).
NASA’s global precipitation data and data processing systems have come a long way from the launch of TRMM in 1997 to the ongoing GPM mission.
9 MIN READ
Precipitation Datasets
| Dataset | Platforms | Instruments | Temporal Extent | Location Keywords | Spatial Extent | Data Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPM Ground Validation Environment Canada (EC) Weather Station XET C3VP V1 | GROUND STATIONS | THERMOMETERS, PRESSURE PROBE, ANEMOMETERS, WIND VANES, PYRANOMETERS, Pyrgeometer, SUNSHINE RECORDERS, ULTRASONIC DEPTH SENSOR | 2006-10-04 to 2007-03-31 | ONTARIO | N: 44.24 S: 44.22 E: -79.77 W: -79.79 | ASCII |
| GPM GROUND VALIDATION GCPEX SNOW MICROPHYSICS CASE STUDY V1 | NASA DC-8, GROUND STATIONS, UND CITATION II | APR-2, CIPS, D3R, DPR, HVPS, PMS 2D-C PROBE | 2012-02-24 to 2012-02-25 | ONTARIO | N: 46.3966 S: 43.4595 E: -78.7616 W: -80.4026 | netCDF-4 |
| GPM Ground Validation Global Flood Monitoring System (GFMS) Flood Maps IFloodS V1 | DMSP, Aqua, TRMM, NOAA POES | SSM/I, SSMIS, AMSR-E, TMI, AMSU-B | 2013-03-26 to 2013-06-30 | GLOBAL | N: 49.875 S: -49.875 E: 179.875 W: -179.875 | netCDF-4 - ASCII |
| GPM Ground Validation Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) IFloodS V1 | METOP-B, METOP-A, NOAA-16, DMSP, TRMM, NOAA-15, GCOM-W1, GPM | AMSU-B, AMSU-A, SSMIS, PR, TMI, AMSR2, GMI | 2013-04-22 to 2013-06-30 | GLOBAL | N: 59.95 S: -59.95 E: 179.95 W: -179.95 | netCDF-4 - Binary |
| GPM Ground Validation Goddard Profiling Algorithm (GPROF) 2014 IFloodS V3 | DMSP 5D-3/F17, NOAA-18, METOP-B, NOAA-19, DMSP 5D-3/F16, DMSP 5D-3/F18, METOP-A, GCOM-W1 | SSMIS, MHS, AMSR2 | 2013-03-31 to 2013-07-02 | IOWA | N: 51.9073 S: 32.0518 E: -59.9776 W: -123.83 | HDF5 |
| GPM Ground Validation Hydro-Estimator IFloodS V1 | GOES-13 | GOES-13 Imager | 2013-04-24 to 2013-06-30 | IOWA | N: 45.998 S: 39.016 E: -87.029 W: -96.982 | netCDF-3 |
| GPM Ground Validation Hydro-Estimator IPHEx V1 | GOES-13 | GOES-13 Imager | 2014-05-01 to 2014-06-16 | NORTH CAROLINA | N: 42.921 S: 27.897 E: -71.793 W: -91.736 | netCDF-4 |
| GPM Ground Validation Iowa Flood Center (IFC) NEXRAD Composite IFloodS V1 | GROUND STATIONS | NEXRAD | 2013-04-15 to 2013-06-30 | IOWA | N: 44.5337 S: 40.1333 E: -89.9036 W: -97.1542 | ASCII - netCDF-4 |
| GPM Ground Validation Iowa Flood Center (IFC) Rain Gauges IFloodS V1 | GROUND STATIONS | RAIN GAUGES | 2013-04-28 to 2013-05-20 | IOWA | N: 41.8599 S: 41.8548 E: -91.6348 W: -91.6459 | ASCII |
| GPM Ground Validation Joss-Waldvogel Disdrometer (JW) LPVEx V1 | GROUND STATIONS | JW DISDROMETER | 2010-09-10 to 2010-11-09 | FINLAND | N: 60.495 S: 60.475 E: 25.092 W: 25.072 | ASCII |
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