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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.
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Precipitation Datasets
| Dataset | Platforms | Instruments | Temporal Extent | Location Keywords | Spatial Extent | Data Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOREAS AFM-08 ECMWF Hourly Surface and Upper Air Data for the SSA and NSA | NOT APPLICABLE | NOT APPLICABLE | 1994-05-13 to 1997-03-31 | N: 62 S: 48 E: -92 W: -114 | ASCII | |
| BOREAS Derived Surface Meteorological Data | FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS, METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS | THERMOCOUPLES, HUMIDITY SENSORS, WIND MONITOR, BAROMETERS, NET RADIOMETERS, PYRANOMETERS, RAIN GAUGES, ULTRASONIC DEPTH GAUGE, INFRARED THERMOMETERS, Pyrgeometer, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR | 1994-01-01 to 1996-12-31 | N: 56.25 S: 53.42 E: -97.23 W: -106.32 | ASCII | |
| BOREAS Follow-On FLX-01 NSA-OBS Tower Flux, Meteorological, and Soil Temp. Data | FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS, FIELD INVESTIGATION | EDDY CORRELATION DEVICES, RAIN GAUGES, THERMOCOUPLES, NET RADIOMETERS, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR | 1996-10-31 to 1999-01-01 | N: 55.8801 S: 55.8801 E: -98.4814 W: -98.4814 | CSV | |
| BOREAS Follow-On HMet-01 Merged SSM/I and Rain Gauge Precipitation Data | DMSP 5D-2/F10, DMSP 5D-2/F11, DMSP 5D-2/F13, METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS | SSM/I, RAIN GAUGES | 1996-06-01 to 1996-10-01 | N: 57 S: 52 E: -96 W: -107 | Binary | |
| BOREAS Follow-On HMet-02 Area and Regional Hourly Gridded Met. Data, 1994-1996 | METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS, GOES-7 | TEMPERATURE SENSORS, WIND MONITOR, RAIN GAUGES, PRESSURE SENSORS, VAS | 1994-01-01 to 1997-01-01 | N: 60 S: 48 E: -90 W: -111 | Binary | |
| BOREAS Follow-On HMet-03 Hourly Meteorological Data at Flux Towers, 1994-1996 | FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS | THERMOCOUPLES, ANEMOMETERS, BAROMETERS, HUMIDITY SENSORS, RAIN GAUGES, PYRANOMETERS | 1994-01-01 to 1996-12-01 | N: 56 S: 53 E: -98 W: -106 | CSV | |
| BOREAS Follow-On HMet-04 1996-1998 NSA Meteorological Data | METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS | BAROMETERS, NET RADIOMETERS, PYRANOMETERS, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR, RAIN GAUGES, TEMPERATURE PROBES, ULTRASONIC DEPTH GAUGE, WIND MONITOR, TEMPERATURE SENSORS, HUMIDITY SENSORS, INFRARED THERMOMETERS | 1994-01-01 to 1999-01-01 | N: 60 S: 48 E: -90 W: -111 | CSV | |
| BOREAS Follow-On MOD-01 Regional Daily Averaged Gridded Met. Data, 1994-1996 | METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS, GOES-7 | TEMPERATURE SENSORS, PRESSURE SENSORS, WIND MONITOR, RAIN GAUGES, VAS | 1994-01-01 to 1997-01-01 | N: 60 S: 48 E: -90 W: -111 | Binary | |
| BOREAS HYD-01 Under Canopy Precipitation Data | FIELD INVESTIGATION | RAIN GAUGES | 1994-05-23 to 1997-06-24 | N: 55.93 S: 53.88 E: -98.29 W: -106.2 | ASCII | |
| BOREAS HYD-08 1996 Gross Precipitation Data | FIELD INVESTIGATION | RAIN GAUGES | 1996-07-04 to 1996-08-11 | N: 53.99 S: 53.99 E: -105.12 W: -105.12 | ASCII |
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