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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
CAMEX-4 MIPS MICROWAVE PROFILING RADIOMETER V1 GROUND STATIONS, MIPS MR, PYRANOMETERS 2001-08-15 to 2001-09-12 FLORIDA KEYS N: 24.8 S: 24.6 E: -81.5 W: -81.7 ASCII
CAMEX-4 MIPS SURFACE STATION 1 V1 MIPS, GROUND STATIONS ANEMOMETERS, BAROMETERS, HYGROMETERS, PYRANOMETERS, RAIN GAUGES, THERMOMETERS 2001-08-15 to 2001-09-08 FLORIDA KEYS N: 24.8 S: 24.6 E: -81.5 W: -81.7 ASCII
CAMEX-4 MIPS SURFACE STATION 2 V1 GROUND STATIONS, MIPS BAROMETERS, HYGROMETERS, ANEMOMETERS, PYRANOMETERS, RAIN GAUGES, THERMOMETERS 2001-08-26 to 2001-09-12 FLORIDA KEYS N: 24.8 S: 24.6 E: -81.5 W: -81.7 ASCII
CAMEX-4 NOAA LYMAN-ALPHA HYGROMETER V1 NASA DC-8 LYMAN-ALPHA HYGROMETER 2001-08-15 to 2001-09-26 ATLANTIC OCEAN N: 50 S: 10 E: -60 W: -100 ASCII
Characteristics of African Savanna Biomes for Determining Woody Cover FIELD INVESTIGATION, NOAA-7, LABORATORY, FIELD SURVEYS DENSIOMETERS, AVHRR, CHN ANALYZERS, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 1981-01-01 to 2003-12-31 N: 16.761 S: -27.75 E: 37.2375 W: -15.8392 CSV
Climate Normals for Last Glacial Maximum and Modern (1975-2005), Alaska COMPUTERS Computer 1000-01-01 to 2005-12-31 ALASKA N: 74 S: 47.7384 E: -106.933 W: -178.236 GeoTIFF
Cloud Radar System (CRS) IMPACTS NASA ER-2 CRS 2020-01-25 to 2023-02-28 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA N: 48.658 S: 31.073 E: -64.894 W: -95.46 HDF-5
CMS: Evapotranspiration and Meteorology, Water-Limited Shrublands, Mexico, 2008-2010 FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS, METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS SOIL HEAT FLUX TRANSDUCER, EDDY CORRELATION DEVICES, IRGA, SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, RAIN GAUGES 2008-01-01 to 2010-12-31 N: 32.0301 S: 29.741 E: -110.534 W: -116.605 CSV
Daily Rainfall Data (FIFE) FIELD INVESTIGATION RAIN GAUGES 1982-04-27 to 1989-12-30 N: 39.11 S: 39.07 E: -96.55 W: -96.61 multiple
Daily SnowModel Outputs Covering the ABoVE Core Domain, 3-km Resolution, 1980-2020 MODELS Computer 1980-09-01 to 2020-08-31 ALASKA, CANADA N: 75.8357 S: 49.8038 E: -84.3282 W: -176.915 netCDF-4 classic
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