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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 TWO-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISDROMETER (2DVD) IFLOODS V1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS 2DVD 2013-04-03 to 2013-06-18 IOWA N: 42.2388 S: 41.6407 E: -91.5417 W: -92.4636 ASCII
GPM GROUND VALIDATION TWO-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISDROMETER (2DVD) IPHEX V1 GROUND STATIONS 2DVD 2014-04-23 to 2014-06-17 NORTH CAROLINA N: 35.5858 S: 35.2266 E: -82.0565 W: -83.0948 ASCII
GPM GROUND VALIDATION TWO-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISDROMETER (2DVD) LPVEX V1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS 2DVD, DISDROMETERS 2010-09-15 to 2010-10-20 FINLAND N: 60.4846 S: 60.1045 E: 25.6247 W: 24.9749 Various: Binary, ASCII
GPM GROUND VALIDATION TWO-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISDROMETER (2DVD) MC3E V1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS 2DVD, DISDROMETERS 2011-04-21 to 2011-06-06 OKLAHOMA N: 36.6334 S: 36.5784 E: -97.4447 W: -97.5323 ASCII
GPM GROUND VALIDATION TWO-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISDROMETER (2DVD) NSSTC V1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS 2DVD, DISDROMETERS 2009-11-20 to 2011-10-13 ALABAMA N: 34.7233 S: 34.7233 E: -86.6419 W: -86.6419 ASCII
GPM Ground Validation Two-Dimensional Video Disdrometer (2DVD) OLYMPEX V1 GROUND STATIONS 2DVD 2015-10-31 to 2016-01-17 WASHINGTON N: 47.514 S: 47.36 E: -123.812 W: -123.993 ASCII
GPM Ground Validation Two-Dimensional Video Disdrometer (2DVD) WFF V2 GROUND STATIONS 2DVD 2013-07-24 to 2015-10-05 VIRGINIA N: 37.9442 S: 37.9289 E: -75.4572 W: -75.4781 ASCII
GPM GROUND VALIDATION TWO-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO DISDROMETER (2DVD) WFF Version 1 GROUND STATIONS 2DVD N: 37.9442 S: 37.9289 E: -75.4572 W: -75.4781 ASCII
GPM Ground Validation USDA ARS Soil Moisture IFloodS V1 GROUND STATIONS PROBES, RAIN GAUGES 2013-04-16 to 2013-06-04 IOWA N: 42.5546 S: 42.3183 E: -93.2108 W: -93.5991 ASCII - Excel
GPM Ground Validation Validation Network (VN) V1 GROUND STATIONS, GPM Polarimetric Radar, DPR, GMI 2014-03-09 to 2021-07-31 NORTHERN HEMISPHERE N: 65.634 S: -31.818 E: 169.948 W: -169.499 netCDF-3
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