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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
Daymet: Annual Climate Summaries on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4 R1 MODELS Computer 1950-01-01 to 2024-12-31 HAWAII, PUERTO RICO, NORTH AMERICA N: 83.7064 S: 6.07616 E: -53.055 W: -178.204 multiple
Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4 R1 MODELS Computer 1950-01-01 to 2024-12-31 CANADA, NORTH AMERICA, PUERTO RICO, MEXICO, HAWAII N: 82.9143 S: 14.0749 E: -53.0567 W: -178.133 netCDF-4
Daymet: Monthly Climate Summaries on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4 R1 MODELS Computer 1950-01-01 to 2023-12-31 PUERTO RICO, HAWAII, NORTH AMERICA N: 82.9143 S: 14.0749 E: -53.0567 W: -178.133 multiple
Daymet: Station-Level Inputs and Cross-Validation for North America, Version 4 R1 MODELS Computer 1950-01-01 to 2023-12-31 NORTH AMERICA, PUERTO RICO, HAWAII N: 82.9143 S: 14.0749 E: -52.6667 W: -178.133 multiple
ER-2 Doppler radar (EDOP) TC4 NASA ER-2 EDOP 2007-07-07 to 2007-08-09 EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN N: 37.886 S: -6.419 E: -74.997 W: -119.355 netCDF-4
ER-2 X-Band Doppler Radar (EXRAD) EPOCH GLOBAL HAWK EXRAD 2017-08-09 to 2017-08-31 PACIFIC OCEAN N: 34.9083 S: 16.603 E: -83.6115 W: -124.717 HDF5
ER-2 X-band Radar (EXRAD) 3D Winds IMPACTS NASA ER-2 EXRAD 2020-01-25 to 2020-02-07 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA N: 44.726 S: 33.2806 E: -71.5199 W: -90.885 netCDF-3
FLUXNET Canada Research Network - Canadian Carbon Program Data Collection, 1993-2014 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS, FIELD SURVEYS PYRANOMETERS, ANEMOMETERS, RAIN GAUGES, THERMOCOUPLES, THERMOMETERS, THERMISTORS, STEEL MEASURING TAPE, CO2 ANALYZERS, PROBES 1993-01-01 to 2014-12-31 GLOBAL LAND N: 55.88 S: 42.6609 E: -67.0993 W: -125.334 CSV
FLUXNET Research Network Site Characteristics, Investigators, and Bibliography, 2016 GROUND STATIONS, GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS ANEMOMETERS, RAIN GAUGES, THERMOMETERS 1991-01-01 to 2016-12-31 N: 78.921 S: -62.2321 E: 175.554 W: -157.409 CSV
Global 10-Year Mean Monthly Climatology, 1901-1990 (New et al.) NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1901-01-01 to 1991-01-01 N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 Shapefile
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