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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

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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.
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TRMM and GPM Precipitation Products and Services at NASA's GES DISC

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).

Precipitation Datasets

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Dataset Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Location Keywords Spatial Extent Data Format
GPM Ground Validation Southern Appalachian Rain Gauge IPHEx V1 GROUND STATIONS RAIN GAUGES 2008-01-03 to 2014-12-31 NORTH CAROLINA N: 35.8876 S: 35.3683 E: -81.232 W: -83.3713 ASCII
GPM Ground Validation Surface Meteorological Station C3VP V1 GROUND STATIONS RAIN GAUGES, THERMOMETERS 2005-11-01 to 2007-03-31 ONTARIO N: 44.33 S: 44.13 E: -79.67 W: -79.87 Excel
GPM Ground Validation Tipping Buckets UConn GROUND STATIONS RAIN GAUGES 2022-12-20 to 2024-10-28 CONNECTICUT N: 41.818 S: 37.935 E: -72.258 W: -75.471 ASCII
GPM GROUND VALIDATION TOTAL PRECIPITATION SENSOR (HOTPLATE) GCPEX V1 GROUND STATIONS Total Precipitation Sensor (Hotplate) 2011-11-07 to 2012-02-21 CANADA N: 44.3 S: 44.2 E: -79.64 W: -79.78 ASCII
GPM Ground Validation TRMM 2A25 NRT Precipitation Radar IPHEx V7 TRMM PR 2014-05-01 to 2014-06-16 NORTH CAROLINA N: 36.2271 S: 25.8391 E: -70.8148 W: -92.739 HDF4
GPM Ground Validation TRMM Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) IFloodS V7 Aqua, NOAA POES, DMSP 5D-2/F14, TRMM, DMSP 5D-3/F15, DMSP 5D-3/F17, DMSP 5D-2/F13, DMSP 5D-3/F16 AMSR-E, AMSU-B, SSM/I, TMI, SSMIS 2013-04-01 to 2013-06-30 GLOBAL N: 59.875 S: -59.875 E: 179.875 W: -179.875 Binary - netCDF-4
GPM Ground Validation TRMM Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) IPHEx V7 Aqua, TRMM, DMSP 5D-3/F17, DMSP 5D-2/F13, DMSP 5D-3/F15, NOAA-17, DMSP 5D-2/F14, DMSP 5D-3/F16 AMSR-E, TMI, SSMIS, SSM/I, AMSU-B 2014-05-01 to 2014-06-16 GLOBAL N: 60 S: -60 E: 180 W: -180 netCDF-4
GPM Ground Validation Two-Dimensional Video Disdrometer (2DVD) C3VP V1 GROUND STATIONS 2DVD 2006-12-02 to 2007-04-09 CANADA N: 44.2432 S: 44.2232 E: -79.7706 W: -79.7906 ASCII
GPM GROUND VALIDATION TWO-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISDROMETER (2DVD) GCPEX V1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS 2DVD, DISDROMETERS 2011-10-27 to 2012-02-27 ONTARIO N: 44.6862 S: 44.1765 E: -79.64 W: -79.93 Binary
GPM GROUND VALIDATION TWO-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISDROMETER (2DVD) HYMEX V1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS 2DVD, DISDROMETERS 2012-09-12 to 2012-11-13 EUROPE N: 44.1372 S: 41.8936 E: 12.4938 W: 4.0975 ASCII
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