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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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Assessing urban-rural climate resilience of metropolitan Yangon, Myanmar Pang, Pearlyn, Guo, Zhou, Wang, YiChen Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Assessing the response of vegetation change to drought during 2009-2018 in Yunnan Province, China Yu, Yuanhe, Shen, Yuzhen, Wang, Jinliang, Wei, Yuchun, Nong, Lanping, Deng, Huan Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Catchment-level agricultural drought hazard vulnerability analysis of Ganga Basin (India) using spectral indices Banerjee, Subhro, Pandey, Arvind Chandra Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Changes in biomass burning, wetland extent, or agriculture drive Hickman, Jonathan E., Andela, Niels, Dammers, Enrico, Clarisse, Lieven, Coheur, Pierre-Francois, Van Damme, Martin, Di Vittorio, Courtney A., Ossohou, Money, Galy-Lacaux, Corinne, Tsigaridis, Kostas, Bauer, Susanne E. Total Surface Precipitation Rate, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in Qin, Yuanwei, Xiao, Xiangming, Wigneron, Jean-Pierre, Ciais, Philippe, Brandt, Martin, Fan, Lei, Li, Xiaojun, Crowell, Sean, Wu, Xiaocui, Doughty, Russell, Zhang, Yao, Liu, Fang, Sitch, Stephen, Moore, Berrien Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Comparative analysis of two drought indices in the calculation of drought recovery time and implications on drought assessment: East Africa's Lake Victoria Basin Hao, Yuefeng, Baik, Jongjin, Fred, Sseguya, Choi, Minha Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), 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, Gross Primary Production (gpp), Vegetation Cover, Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Primary Production, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Comparative evaluation of drought indices for monitoring drought based on remote sensing data Wei, Wei, Zhang, Jing, Zhou, Liang, Xie, Binbin, Zhou, Junju, Li, Chuanhua Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Comparison of physical and data-driven models to forecast groundwater level changes with the inclusion of GRACEA case study over the state of Victoria, Australia Yin, Wenjie, Fan, Zongwen, Tangdamrongsub, Natthachet, Hu, Litang, Zhang, Menglin 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, Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Equatorial waves triggering extreme rainfall and floods in southwest Sulawesi, Indonesia Latos, Beata, Lefort, Thierry, Flatau, Maria K., Flatau, Piotr J., Permana, Donaldi S., Baranowski, Dariusz B., Paski, Jaka A. I., Makmur, Erwin, Sulystyo, Eko, Peyrille, Philippe, Feng, Zhe, Matthews, Adrian J., Schmidt, Jerome M. Precipitation, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Rain, Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Estimation of land-cover linkage to trends in hydrological variables of river basins in the Indian sub-continent using satellite observation and model outputs Kansara, Prakrut, Lakshmi, Venkataraman Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Evaluation of precipitation datasets available on Google earth engine over India Dubey, Saket, Gupta, Harshit, Goyal, Manish Kumar, Joshi, Nitin Precipitation, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Rain, Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Evaluating intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves of satellite-based precipitation datasets in Peninsular Malaysia Noor, Muhammad, Ismail, Tarmizi, Shahid, Shamsuddin, Asaduzzaman, Md, Dewan, Ashraf Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Evaluating the latest IMERG products in a subtropical climate: the case of Parana state, Brazil G. Nascimento, Jessica, Althoff, Daniel, C. Bazame, Helizani, M. U. Neale, Christopher, N. Duarte, Sergio, L. Ruhoff, Anderson, Z. Goncalves, Ivo Total Surface Precipitation Rate, Droplet Size, Precipitation Rate, Radar Reflectivity
Evaluating the reconstruction method of satellite-based monthly precipitation over Golestan province, Northern Iran Abdollahipour, Arman, Ahmadi, Hassan, Aminnejad, Babak Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Evaluation of areal monthly average precipitation estimates from MERRA2 and ERA5 reanalysis in a colombian caribbean basin Vega-Duran, Jean, Escalante-Castro, Brigitte, Canales, Fausto A., Acuna, Guillermo J., Kazmierczak, Bartosz Total Surface Precipitation Rate
High sensitivity of tropical precipitation to local sea surface temperature Good, Peter, Chadwick, Robin, Holloway, Christopher E., Kennedy, John, Lowe, Jason A., Roehrig, Romain, Rushley, Stephanie S. Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Hydroclimatic extremes evaluation using GRACE/GRACE-FO and multidecadal climatic variables over the Nile river basin Nigatu, Zemede M., Fan, Dongming, You, Wei, Melesse, Assefa M. Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Hydrologic modeling of the sudd wetland using satellite-based data Di Vittorio, Courtney A., Georgakakos, Aris P. Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Hydrological Dynamics of the Congo Basin from Water Surfaces based on LBand Microwave Fatras, C., Parrens, M., Pena Luque, S., Al Bitar, A. Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Global SatelliteBased Precipitation Products Liu, Zhong, Ostrenga, Dana, Savtchenko, Andrey, Teng, William, Vollmer, Bruce, Wei, Jennifer, Meyer, David Total Surface Precipitation Rate, Surface Pressure, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Humidity, Convection, Surface Winds, Rain, Land Surface Temperature, Geopotential Height
GPM annual and daily precipitation data for real-time short-term nowcasting: A pilot study for a way forward in data assimilation Wang, Kaiyang, Kong, Lingrong, Yang, Zixin, Singh, Prateek, Guo, Fangyu, Xu, Yunqing, Tang, Xiaonan, Hao, Jianli Total Surface Precipitation Rate
GRACE products and land surface models for estimating the changes in key water storage components in the Nile River Basin Nigatu, Zemede M., Fan, Dongming, You, Wei Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Gravity based assessment of spatio-temporal mass variations of the groundwater resources in the Eastern Desert, Egypt Mohamed, Ahmed, Ragaa Eldeen, Esraa, Abdelmalik, Karim Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Ground validation of TRMM 3B43 V7 precipitation estimates over Colombia. Part I: Monthly and seasonal timescales VallejoBernal, Sara M., Urrea, Viviana, BedoyaSoto, Juan M., Posada, Daniela, Olarte, Alejandro, CardenasPosso, Yadira, RuizMurcia, Franklyn, Martinez, Maria T., Petersen, Walter A., Huffman, George J., Poveda, German Total Surface Precipitation Rate
Hydrometeorological drought: impact on Nile Awange, Joseph Total Surface Precipitation Rate
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