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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 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 N: 48.39 S: 48.37 E: -123.46 W: -123.48 ASCII - XML
GPM GROUND VALIDATION AUTONOMOUS PARSIVEL UNIT (APU) GCPEX V1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS APU, DISDROMETERS 2011-10-26 to 2012-03-10 CANADA N: 44.6862 S: 44.1765 E: -79.6403 W: -79.9279 ASCII
GPM GROUND VALIDATION AUTONOMOUS PARSIVEL UNIT (APU) HYMEX V1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS APU, DISDROMETERS 2012-09-07 to 2012-11-07 EUROPE N: 44.0961 S: 41.7827 E: 14.2142 W: 3.88472 ASCII
GPM Ground Validation Autonomous Parsivel Unit (APU) ICE POP V1 GROUND STATIONS APU 2015-10-13 to 2018-07-01 SOUTH KOREA N: 38.2509 S: 37.3779 E: 129.124 W: 128.378 ASCII
GPM GROUND VALIDATION AUTONOMOUS PARSIVEL UNIT (APU) IFLOODS V1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS APU 2013-03-16 to 2013-06-17 IOWA N: 42.2388 S: 41.6406 E: -91.5416 W: -92.4637 ASCII
GPM GROUND VALIDATION AUTONOMOUS PARSIVEL UNIT (APU) IPHEx V1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS APU 2013-10-28 to 2014-06-19 NORTH CAROLINA N: 36.0144 S: 35.0833 E: -81.8332 W: -83.4973 ASCII
GPM GROUND VALIDATION AUTONOMOUS PARSIVEL UNIT (APU) LPVEX V1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS APU, DISDROMETERS 2010-09-15 to 2011-01-12 FINLAND N: 60.4864 S: 59.3335 E: 27.4909 W: 21.5013 ASCII
GPM GROUND VALIDATION AUTONOMOUS PARSIVEL UNIT (APU) MC3E V1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS APU, DISDROMETERS 2011-04-15 to 2011-06-06 OKLAHOMA N: 36.638 S: 36.5641 E: -97.4262 W: -97.5522 ASCII
GPM GROUND VALIDATION AUTONOMOUS PARSIVEL UNIT (APU) NSSTC V1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS APU, DISDROMETERS 2010-06-08 to 2011-03-30 ALABAMA N: 34.72 S: 34.71 E: -86.63 W: -86.64 ASCII
GPM Ground Validation Autonomous Parsivel Unit (APU) OLYMPEX V1 GROUND STATIONS APU 2015-01-10 to 2016-01-31 WASHINGTON N: 48.3871 S: 47.2025 E: -123.478 W: -124.369 ASCII
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