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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 Datasets

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Dataset Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Location Keywords Data Format
ISLSCP II CRU05 Climate Time Series for Global Land Areas, 1986-1995 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1986-01-01 to 1995-12-31 multiple
ISLSCP II ECMWF Near-Surface Meteorology Parameters NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1985-01-01 to 1998-12-31 ASCII Grid
ISLSCP II Gauge-Based Analyses of Daily Precipitation over Global Land Areas METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS, FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS RAIN GAUGES 1986-01-01 to 1995-12-31 Shapefile
ISLSCP II Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) Monthly Precipitation GROUND STATIONS RAIN GAUGES 1986-01-01 to 1995-12-31 multiple
ISLSCP II Global Precipitation Climatology Project Version 1, Pentad Precipitation METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS, MODELS RAIN GAUGES, Computer 1986-01-01 to 1995-12-31 Shapefile
ISLSCP II Global Precipitation Climatology Project Version 2, Monthly Precipitation GROUND STATIONS RAIN GAUGES 1986-01-01 to 1995-12-31 Shapefile
ISLSCP II Reanalysis Near-Surface Meteorology Data NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1986-01-01 to 1995-12-31 ASCII Grid
Jaeger Monthly Mean Global Precipitation Climatology 2.5 x 5.0 degree V1 (RAIN_JEAGER) at GES DISC WEATHER STATIONS, Ships RAIN GAUGES 1931-01-01 to 1965-12-31 GLOBAL
Land Surface Atmospheric Boundary Interaction Product L3 V1(LANDMET) at GES DISC LANDMET NOT APPLICABLE 1998-01-01 to 2007-12-31 GLOBAL LAND
Land/Sea static mask relevant to IMERG precipitation 0.1x0.1 degree V2 (GPM_IMERG_LandSeaMask) at GES DISC IMERG NOT APPLICABLE 1998-01-01 to Present
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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 Data Tools

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Tool 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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