Imaging · dataset · 2025
TRMM Ground Validation Radar Site Rain Rate Map L2 1 hour 2 km V7 (TRMM_2A53) at GES DISC
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'Radar Site Rain Map', is an instantaneous surface rain rate map in Cartesian coordinates with a 2 km horizontal resolution.
Description
At single radar sites, the map covers an area of 300km x 300km. For the multiple radar site in Texas, the map covers a region of 724 km x 568 km, and in Florida 512 km x 704 km.
A key component of the TRMM project is the Ground Validation (GV) effort which consists of collecting data from ground-based radar, rain gauges and disdrometers. The data is quality-controlled, and then validation products are produced for comparison with TRMM satellite products. The four primary GV sites are: + Darwin, Australia; + Houston, Texas; + Kwajalein, Republic of the Marshall Islands; + Melbourne, Florida.
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A significant effort is also being supported at NASA Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) and vicinity to provide high quality, long-term measurements of rain rates (via a network of rain gauges collocated with National Weather Service gauges), as well as drop size distributions (DSD) using a variety of instruments, including impact-type Joss Waldvogel, laser-optical Parsivel, as well as two-dimensional video disdrometers. DSD measurements are also being collected at Melbourne and Kwajalein using Joss-Waldvogel disdrometers.
Links
Get the data
- Get a related visualization docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/GPM/browse/2A53_BR.081016.19.MELB.5.PNG ↗
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- This dataset's landing page disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/TRMM_2A53_7.html ↗
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- Download this dataset through a directory map disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/TRMM_GV_L2/TRMM_2A53.7 ↗
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- Download this dataset through Earthdata Search search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=TRMM_2A53 ↗
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- The dataset's project home page trmm-fc.gsfc.nasa.gov/trmm_gv ↗
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- pps.gsfc.nasa.gov /Documents/ICSVol4.pdf ↗
View the primary investigator's documentation for this dataset
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- The dataset's project home page trmm-fc.gsfc.nasa.gov ↗
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- View documentation related to this dataset gpmweb2https.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/tsdis/AB/docs/anomalous.html ↗
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Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/trmm-ground-validation-radar-site-rain-rate-map-l2-1-h… ↗
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Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=a6791168-77ec-4976-a81d-cf85c7fae… ↗
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Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Engineering · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Provenance · 1 source records, 11 field assertions
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