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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
Site Averaged AMS Data: 1989 (Betts) METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS THERMOMETERS, BAROMETERS, NET RADIOMETERS, RAIN GAUGES, PYRANOMETERS, ANEMOMETERS 1989-01-01 to 1989-11-10 N: 39.1161 S: 38.9753 E: -96.447 W: -96.611 CSV
Spatio-temporal Characteristics of Rainfall in Africa, 0.25 degrees, from 1998-2012 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1998-01-01 to 2012-12-31 N: 40 S: -40 E: 55 W: -20 netCDF-3
Sub-daily Climate Forcings for Puerto Rico COMPUTERS Computer 1950-01-01 to 2019-12-31 PUERTO RICO N: 19.94 S: 16.84 E: -64.1 W: -67.9928 netCDF-4
The ABCflux Database: Arctic-Boreal CO2 Flux and Site Environmental Data, 1989-2020 MODELS, FIELD SURVEYS, METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS, FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS Computer, PROBES, THERMOMETERS, GAS SENSORS 1989-12-01 to 2020-09-30 RUSSIAN FEDERATION, NORWAY, CANADA, ICELAND, SWEDEN N: 82.8225 S: 48.2167 E: 161.55 W: -165.62 CSV
TRMM MICROWAVE IMAGER (TMI) WENTZ OCEAN PRODUCTS V3 TRMM TMI 2006-09-17 to 2015-04-03 GLOBAL OCEAN N: 38 S: -38 E: 180 W: -180 HDF-EOS4
TRMM TROPICAL CYCLONE PRECIPITATION FEATURE (TCPF) DATABASE - LEVEL 1 V1 TRMM LIS, PR, TMI, VIRS 1997-12-08 to 2011-12-30 GLOBAL N: 39.11 S: -39.14 E: 180 W: -179.98 HDF4
Tropical Cyclone Intensity (TCI) Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) V2.1 NASA WB-57F HIRAD 2015-08-30 to 2015-10-23 ATLANTIC OCEAN N: 37.8755 S: 12.8279 E: -63.0352 W: -109.283 netCDF-3
Two-Dimensional Video Disdrometer (2DVD) IMPACTS V1 GROUND STATIONS 2DVD 2020-01-15 to 2020-02-28 MARYLAND N: 37.9543 S: 37.9194 E: -75.4462 W: -75.4912 ASCII
UAlbany Micro Rain Radar 2 (MRR-2) IMPACTS GROUND STATIONS MRR 2020-01-30 to 2023-02-28 NEW YORK N: 42.686280387058 S: 42.680376870022 E: -73.813906533108 W: -73.832438962497 netCDF-3 - netCDF-4
UAlbany Parsivel IMPACTS GROUND STATIONS DISDROMETERS 2020-01-30 to 2023-02-28 NEW YORK N: 42.6957 S: 42.67091583252 E: -73.804445495605 W: -73.8419 netCDF-4
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