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Description

TMPA (3B43) dataset have been discontinued as of Dec. 31, 2019, and users are strongly encouraged to shift to the successor IMERG dataset (doi: 10.5067/GPM/IMERG/3B-MONTH/06).

The 3B43 dataset is the monthly version of the 3B42 dataset.

This product was created using TRMM-adjusted merged microwave-infrared precipitation rate (in mm/hr) and root-mean-square (RMS) precipitation-error estimates.
It provides a "best" precipitation estimate in a latitude band covering 50o N to 50o S, an expansion of the TRMM region, from all global data sources, namely high-quality microwave data, infrared data, and analyses of rain gauges. The granule size is one month.

Product Summary

Platforms
TMPA
Instruments
NOT APPLICABLE
Projects
TRMM
Spatial Extent

N: 50 S: -50 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
0.25 Decimal Degrees x 0.25 Decimal Degrees
Location
TROPICS
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1998-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Data Partner
Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (formerly Goddard DAAC), Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/TISL/GESDI
Concept ID
C1282032631-GES_DISC
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
264
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Total Surface Precipitation Rate

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Precipitation Processing System (PPS) at Goddard Space Flight Center. (2018). TRMM (TMPA/3B43) Rainfall Estimate L3 1 month 0.25 degree x 0.25 degree V7 [Dataset]. NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/TRMM/TMPA/MONTH/7 Date Accessed: 2026-07-10

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Error Correction of Multi-Source Weighted-Ensemble Precipitation (MSWEP) over the Lancang-Mekong River Basin Tang, Xiongpeng, Zhang, Jianyun, Wang, Guoqing, Ruben, Gebdang Biangbalbe, Bao, Zhenxin, Liu, Yanli, Liu, Cuishan, Jin, Junliang Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Establishment of a comprehensive drought monitoring index based on multisource remote sensing data and agricultural drought monitoring Zhang, Zhaoxu, Xu, Wei, Shi, Zhenwei, Qin, Qiming Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Evaluation of gridded meteorological datasets and their potential hydrological application to a humid area with scarce data for Pirapama River basin, northeastern ... Viana, Jussara Freire de Souza, Montenegro, Suzana Maria Gico Lima, da Silva, Bernardo Barbosa, da Silva, Richarde Marques, Srinivasan, Raghavan, Santos, Celso Augusto Guimaraes, Araujo, Diego Cezar dos Santos, Tavares, Clara Gadelha Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Detection of signals linked to climate change, land-cover change and climate oscillators in Tropical Montane Cloud Forests Los, Sietse O., Street-Perrott, F. Alayne, Loader, Neil J., Froyd, Cynthia A. Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Investigating various products of IMERG for precipitation retrieval over surfaces with and without snow and ice cover Arabzadeh, Alireza, Behrangi, Ali Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Lake-effect rains over Lake Victoria and their association with Mesoscale Convective Systems Nicholson, Sharon E., Klotter, Douglas, Hartman, Adam T. Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Linear and Nonlinear Trend Analyzes in Global SatelliteBased Precipitation, 19982017 Kazemzadeh, Majid, Hashemi, Hossein, Jamali, Sadegh, Uvo, Cintia B., Berndtsson, Ronny, Huffman, George J. Total Surface Precipitation Rate, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate
Long-term change of water clarity in Lake Limboto derived from Landsat data Setiawan, F, Subehi, L, Matsushita, B Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Investigating 13C values in stalagmites from tropical South America for the last two millennia Novello, Valdir Felipe, William da Cruz, Francisco, Vuille, Mathias, Pereira Silveira Campos, Jose Leandro, Strikis, Nicolas Misailidis, Apaestegui, James, Moquet, Jean Sebastien, Azevedo, Vitor, Ampuero, Angela, Utida, Giselle, Wang, Xianfeng, Paula-Santos, Gustavo Macedo, Jaqueto, Plinio, Ruiz Pessenda, Luiz Carlos, Breecker, Daniel O., Karmann, Ivo Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Improved Remotely Sensed Satellite Products Awange, Joseph Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Improving Hourly Precipitation Estimates for Flash Flood Modeling in Data-Scarce Andean-Amazon Basins: An Integrative Framework Based on Machine Learning and Multiple Remotely Sensed Data Chancay, Juseth E., Espitia-Sarmiento, Edgar Fabian Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Improving spatial estimation of hydrologic attributes via optimized moving search strategies Amini, Yasaman, Nasseri, Mohsen Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Improving the accuracy of global precipitation measurement integrated multi-satellite retrievals (GPM IMERG) using atmosphere precipitable water and altitude in ... Beyk Ahmadi, Niloufar, Rahimzadegan, Majid Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Improving the downscaled springtime temperature in Central Asia through assimilating meteorological and snow cover observations Yao, Yao, Luo, Yong, Huang, Jianbin, Ma, Jinyu Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Improving the Resolution and Accuracy of Groundwater Level Anomalies Using the Machine Learning-Based Fusion Model in the North China Plain Zhang, Gangqiang, Zheng, Wei, Yin, Wenjie, Lei, Weiwei Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Improving the resolution of GRACE data for spatio-temporal groundwater storage assessment Ali, Shoaib, Liu, Dong, Fu, Qiang, Cheema, Muhammad Jehanzeb Masud, Pham, Quoc Bao, Rahaman, Md. Mafuzur, Dang, Thanh Duc, Anh, Duong Tran Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Integrating satellite rainfall estimates with hydrological water balance model: rainfall-runoff modeling in Awash River Basin, Ethiopia Adane, Girma Berhe, Hirpa, Birtukan Abebe, Gebru, Belay Manjur, Song, Cholho, Lee, Woo-Kyun Total Surface Precipitation Rate
A fine-resolution soil moisture dataset for China in 2002-2018 Meng, Xiangjin, Mao, Kebiao, Meng, Fei, Shi, Jiancheng, Zeng, Jiangyuan, Shen, Xinyi, Cui, Yaokui, Jiang, Lingmei, Guo, Zhonghua RADAR IMAGERY, Terrain Elevation, Topographical Relief Maps, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Total Surface Precipitation Rate
A comprehensive assessment of water storage dynamics and hydroclimatic extremes in the Chao Phraya River Basin during 20022020 Abhishek, Kinouchi, Tsuyoshi, Sayama, Takahiro Total Surface Precipitation Rate, Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Surface Winds, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff
Comprehensive drought monitoring in Yunnan Province, China using multisource remote sensing data Wang, Jin-liang, Yu, Yuan-he Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Disentangling the effects of hydro-climatic factors and land use intensification on wetland vegetation dynamics in the Lower Delta of the Parana River Aquino, Diego Sebastian, Gavier-Pizarro, Gregorio, Quintana, Ruben Dario Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature, Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Easy-to-use spatial random-forest-based downscaling-calibration method for producing precipitation data with high resolution and high accuracy Chen, Chuanfa, Hu, Baojian, Li, Yanyan Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Precipitation, Rain, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Dynamics of seasonal snowpack over the High Atlas Tuel, Alexandre, Chehbouni, Abdelghani, Eltahir, Elfatih A.B. Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Total Surface Precipitation Rate
A spatiotemporal framework to calibrate highresolution global monthly precipitation products: An application to the Urmia Lake Watershed in Iran Nasseri, Mohsen, Schoups, Gerrit, Taheri, Mercedeh Precipitation, Rain, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Total Surface Precipitation Rate
A total precipitable water product and its trend analysis in recent years based on passive microwave radiometers Ji, Dabin, Shi, Jiancheng, Letu, Husi, Li, Wei, Zhang, Hongxing, Shang, Huazhe Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone, Cloud Precipitable Water, Surface Winds, Water Temperature, Water Vapor Indices, Total Surface Precipitation Rate, Tropospheric Ozone, Sulfur Dioxide, Surface Temperature, Cloud Fraction
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