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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 MICRO RAIN RADAR (MRR) NASA HYMEX V1 | GROUND STATIONS | MRR | 2012-09-07 to 2012-11-12 | EUROPE | N: 44.2 S: 41.8 E: 12.5 W: 4.06 | ASCII |
| GPM GROUND VALIDATION MICRO RAIN RADAR (MRR) NASA IFLOODS V1 | GROUND STATIONS | MRR | 2013-04-11 to 2013-06-16 | IOWA | N: 42.3 S: 41.8 E: -91.8 W: -92.5 | ASCII |
| GPM GROUND VALIDATION MICRO RAIN RADAR (MRR) NASA IPHEX V1 | GROUND STATIONS | MRR | 2014-04-22 to 2014-10-17 | NORTH CAROLINA | N: 35.52 S: 35.22 E: -83.05 W: -83.1 | ASCII |
| GPM Ground Validation Micro Rain Radar (MRR) OLYMPEX V1 | GROUND STATIONS | MRR | 2014-10-30 to 2016-05-22 | WASHINGTON | N: 47.9704 S: 47.3599 E: -123.499 W: -123.993 | ASCII |
| GPM Ground Validation Micro Rain Radar 2 (MRR-2) UConn | GROUND STATIONS | MRR | 2021-12-01 to 2024-05-21 | CONNECTICUT | N: 41.828 S: 41.798 E: -72.247 W: -72.304 | netCDF-3, netCDF-4 |
| GPM GROUND VALIDATION MISSION REPORTS GCPEX V1 | MISSION REPORTS | VISUAL OBSERVATIONS | 2011-09-06 to 2012-05-11 | ONTARIO | N: 46.9027 S: 42.7243 E: -67.7583 W: -80.7563 | Various: GIF, JPEG, PowerPoint, Word, PDF |
| GPM Ground Validation Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor (MRMS) Precipitation Reanalysis for Satellite Validation Product V1 | GROUND STATIONS | DOPPLER RADAR, RAIN GAUGES | 2014-03-02 to 2018-10-30 | NORTH AMERICA | N: 55 S: 20 E: -60 W: -130 | ASCII |
| GPM Ground Validation NASA EPFL-LTE Parsivel DSD Data Lausanne, Switzerland | GROUND STATIONS | DISDROMETERS | 2008-11-26 to 2010-09-29 | SWITZERLAND | N: 46.5219 S: 46.5176 E: 6.57258 W: 6.56273 | ASCII |
| GPM GROUND VALIDATION NASA MICRO RAIN RADAR (MRR) GCPEX | GROUND STATIONS | MRR | 2011-10-24 to 2012-03-13 | CANADA | N: 44.2336 S: 44.1806 E: -79.7175 W: -79.7814 | netCDF-4 |
| GPM GROUND VALIDATION NASA MICRO RAIN RADAR (MRR) MC3E | GROUND STATIONS | MRR | 2011-04-22 to 2011-06-06 | OKLAHOMA | N: 36.6058 S: 36.605 E: -97.4869 W: -97.4872 | ASCII |
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