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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPM GROUND VALIDATION PLUVIO PRECIPITATION GAUGE GCPEX | GROUND STATIONS | RAIN GAUGES | 2011-12-08 to 2012-02-29 | ONTARIO | N: 44.69 S: 44.17 E: -79.64 W: -79.93 | ASCII |
| GPM GROUND VALIDATION PLUVIO PRECIPITATION GAUGE LPVEX | GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS | RAIN GAUGES, TEMPERATURE SENSORS | 2010-09-15 to 2011-01-13 | FINLAND | N: 60.29 S: 60.12 E: 25.37 W: 24.04 | ASCII |
| GPM Ground Validation Pluvio Precipitation Gauge UConn | GROUND STATIONS | DISDROMETERS | 2021-11-30 to 2024-05-16 | CONNECTICUT | N: 41.828 S: 41.798 E: -72.248 W: -72.304 | ASCII-CSV |
| GPM Ground Validation Pluvio Precipitation Gauges OLYMPEX | GROUND STATIONS | RAIN GAUGES | 2015-10-31 to 2016-01-31 | WASHINGTON | N: 47.68 S: 47.3898 E: -123.581 W: -123.867 | ASCII |
| GPM Ground Validation Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks Cloud Classification System (PERSIANN-CCS) IFloodS | METEOSAT-6, Aqua, GPM, NOAA-16, NOAA-15, GMS-5, NOAA-17, DMSP 5D-2/F13, DMSP 5D-2/F14, GOES-8, METEOSAT-7, DMSP 5D-3/F15, GOES-10, TRMM | VISSR-METEOSAT, AMSR-E, DPR, AMSU-B, VISSR-GMS, SSM/I, GOES-8 Imager, GOES-10 Imager, PR, TMI | 2013-04-01 to 2013-07-01 | IOWA | N: 45.24 S: 39.36 E: -87.16 W: -96.84 | ASCII - netCDF-4 |
| GPM Ground Validation Precipitation Imaging Package (PIP) ICE POP V1 | GROUND STATIONS | PIP | 2017-06-18 to 2018-12-30 | SOUTH KOREA | N: 37.7382 S: 37.6652 E: 128.806 W: 128.7 | ASCII |
| GPM Ground Validation Precipitation Occurrence Sensor System (POSS) LPVEx V1 | GROUND STATIONS | POSS | 2010-09-17 to 2011-04-20 | FINLAND | N: 60.4847 S: 60.2038 E: 25.6248 W: 25.0822 | ASCII |
| GPM GROUND VALIDATION PRECIPITATION VIDEO IMAGER (PVI) GCPEX V1 | GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS | PVI | 2011-11-04 to 2012-03-10 | ONTARIO | N: 44.69 S: 44.18 E: -79.72 W: -79.93 | Excel |
| GPM Ground Validation Precipitation Video Imager (PVI) LPVEx V1 | GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS | PVI | 2010-09-17 to 2011-05-11 | FINLAND | N: 40.01 S: 39.99 E: 105.01 W: 104.99 | Excel - ICI |
| GPM GROUND VALIDATION RAIN GAUGE PAIRS MC3E V2 | GROUND STATIONS | RAIN GAUGES | 2011-04-22 to 2011-06-06 | OKLAHOMA | N: 36.6381 S: 36.5644 E: -97.4261 W: -97.5515 | ASCII |
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