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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 Datasets

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Dataset Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Location Keywords Data Format
GPM GMI (GPROF) Radiometer Precipitation Profiling L3 1 month 0.25 degree x 0.25 degree V07 (GPM_3GPROFGPMGMI) at GES DISC GPM GMI 2014-03-01 to Present TROPICS
GPM GMI Antenna Temperatures L1BASE 1.5 hours 13 km V07 (GPM_BASEGPMGMI) at GES DISC GPM GMI 2014-03-04 to Present TROPICS
GPM GMI Brightness Temperatures L1B 1.5 hours 13 km V07 (GPM_1BGMI) at GES DISC GPM GMI 2014-03-04 to Present TROPICS
GPM GMI Common Calibrated Brightness Temperatures Collocated L1C 1.5 hours 13 km V07 (GPM_1CGPMGMI) at GES DISC GPM GMI 2014-03-04 to Present TROPICS
GPM GMI RSS Common Calibrated Brightness Temperatures L1BASE 1.5 hours 13 km V07 (GPM_BASEGPMGMI_RSS) at GES DISC GPM GMI 2014-03-04 to Present TROPICS
GPM GMI unpacked data L1A 1.5 hours 13 km V07 (GPM_1AGMI) at GES DISC GPM GMI 2014-03-04 to Present TROPICS
GPM GMI XCAL Common Calibrated Brightness Temperatures L1BASE 1.5 hours 13 km V07 (GPM_BASEGPMGMI_XCAL) at GES DISC GPM GMI 2014-03-04 to Present TROPICS
GPM GMI_R Common Calibrated Brightness Temperatures Collocated L1C 1.5 hours 13 km V07 (GPM_1CGPMGMI_R) at GES DISC GPM GMI 2014-03-04 to Present TROPICS
GPM GROUND VALIDATION AIRBORNE SECOND GENERATION PRECIPITATION RADAR (APR-2) GCPEX V1 NASA DC-8 APR-2 2012-01-19 to 2012-02-25 CANADA HDF4
GPM Ground Validation Albert Head (AHD) Ground Meteorological Station (MET) OLYMPEX V1 GROUND STATIONS FD12P WEATHER SENSOR, RAIN GAUGES, TEMPERATURE SENSORS, Visibility Sensor 2015-11-13 to 2016-01-17 BRITISH COLUMBIA ASCII - XML
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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 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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