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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
Airborne Precipitation Radar 3rd Generation (APR-3) CPEX NASA DC-8 APR-3 2017-05-27 to 2017-06-24 CARIBBEAN N: 28.9042 S: 16.8091 E: -69.2994 W: -96.0262 HDF5
Airborne Precipitation Radar 3rd Generation (APR-3) CPEX-AW NASA DC-8 APR-3 2021-08-20 to 2021-09-04 VIRGIN ISLANDS N: 34.046 S: 11.8615 E: -45.6417 W: -80.7804 MAT
AirMOSS: L2 Hourly Precipitation at AirMOSS Sites, 2011-2015 FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS RAIN GAUGES 2011-09-01 to 2015-12-31 N: 53.9169 S: 19.5086 E: -72.1712 W: -121.558 netCDF-4 classic
AIRS/Aqua L2 Near Real Time (NRT) Support Retrieval (AIRS-only) V006 (AIRS2SUP_NRT) at GES DISC Aqua AIRS 2016-10-15 to Present GLOBAL N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180
AMAZE-08 Aerosol Characterization and Meteorological Data, Central Amazon Basin: 2008 LABORATORY, FIELD SURVEYS LOPC-PMS, MASS SPECTROMETERS, CNC, AEROSOL/CLOUD PARTICLE SIZER 2008-02-05 to 2008-04-21 N: -2.4282 S: -2.75745 E: -60.0272 W: -60.3678 CSV
Amazon River Basin Precipitation, 1972-1992 GROUND STATIONS, METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS, STREAMFLOW STATION RAIN GAUGES 1972-01-01 to 1992-12-31 N: 5.2 S: -20 E: -49.4 W: -79.6 multiple
AMS (Automated Met Station) Data (FIFE) METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS THERMOMETERS, ANEROID PRESSURE SENSOR, PYRANOMETERS, RAIN GAUGES, NET RADIOMETERS, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR, INFRARED THERMOMETERS, ANEMOMETERS 1987-05-01 to 1989-11-10 N: 39.12 S: 38.98 E: -96.47 W: -96.61 CSV
Aqua/AIRS L2 Near Real Time (NRT) Support Retrieval (AIRS-only) V7.0 at GES DISC Aqua AIRS 2002-08-30 to Present GLOBAL N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180
Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) IMPACTS GROUND STATIONS ANEMOMETERS, BAROMETERS, RAIN GAUGES, THERMOMETERS, Visibility Sensor 2019-12-29 to 2023-03-01 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA N: 47.467 S: 36.571 E: -67.791 W: -89.694 netCDF-4
Autonomous Parsivel Unit (APU) IMPACTS GROUND STATIONS APU 2020-01-15 to 2020-02-29 MARYLAND N: 38.2064 S: 37.919 E: -75.3588 W: -75.5894 ASCII
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