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GPM Ground Validation Precipitation Imaging Package (PIP) University of Connecticut (UCONN) 1 GROUND STATIONS PIP 2021-09-15 to 2024-05-21

N: 41.828 S: 41.798 E: -72.248 W: -72.304

ASCII-CSV, PNG, AVI
GPM Ground Validation Precipitation Occurrence Sensor System (POSS) LPVEx V1 1 GROUND STATIONS POSS 2010-09-17 to 2011-04-20

N: 60.4847 S: 60.2038 E: 25.6248 W: 25.0822

ASCII
GPM GROUND VALIDATION SATELLITE SIMULATED ORBITS C3VP V1 1 CRM DPR, GMI 2007-01-20 to 2007-01-23

N: 75 S: 34 E: 23 W: 25

netCDF-3
GPM GROUND VALIDATION SATELLITE SIMULATED ORBITS LPVEX V1 1 CRM DPR, GMI 2010-09-21 to 2010-10-21

N: 75 S: 34 E: 25 W: 23

netCDF-3
GPM GROUND VALIDATION SATELLITE SIMULATED ORBITS MC3E V1 1 CRM DPR, GMI 2011-04-25 to 2011-05-21

N: 43 S: 28 E: -91 W: -121

netCDF-3
GPM GROUND VALIDATION SATELLITE SIMULATED ORBITS TWP-ICE V1 1 CRM DPR, GMI 2006-01-23 to 2006-02-06

N: -10 S: -25 E: 140 W: 125

netCDF-3
GPM GROUND VALIDATION TOTAL SKY IMAGER IPHEX V1 1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS TSI 2014-05-06 to 2014-06-15

N: 35.56 S: 35.48 E: -83.04 W: -83.18

JPEG
GPM Ground Validation Two-Dimensional Video Disdrometer (2DVD) OLYMPEX V1 1 GROUND STATIONS 2DVD 2015-10-31 to 2016-01-17

N: 47.514 S: 47.36 E: -123.812 W: -123.993

ASCII
GPM GROUND VALIDATION UND CITATION CLOUD MICROPHYSICS GCPEX V2 2 UND CITATION II CDP, CPC, CPI PROBES, HVPS, INS, LASER HYGROMETERS, NEVZOROV PROBE, PMS 2D-C PROBE, PMS KING PROBE, ROSEMOUNT ICING DETECTOR 2012-01-19 to 2012-02-24

N: 46.3615 S: 43.4595 E: -78.7659 W: -80.3847

Multiple
GPM GROUND VALIDATION UND CITATION CLOUD MICROPHYSICS IPHEx V1 1 UND CITATION II CDP, CPC, CPI PROBES, HVPS, INS, LASER HYGROMETERS, NEVZOROV PROBE, PMS 2D-C PROBE, PMS KING PROBE, ROSEMOUNT ICING DETECTOR 2014-03-06 to 2014-06-13

N: 35.59 S: 35.23 E: -82.06 W: -83.1

ASCII, Binary
GPM GROUND VALIDATION UND CITATION CLOUD MICROPHYSICS MC3E V1 1 UND CITATION II CDP, CPI PROBES, HVPS, INS, LASER HYGROMETERS, PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS, PMS 2D-C PROBE, PMS KING PROBE, ROSEMOUNT ICING DETECTOR, UHSAS 2011-04-22 to 2011-06-02

N: 40.944 S: 34.3247 E: -95.2302 W: -99.1654

ASCII, Binary
GPM Ground Validation UND Citation Cloud Microphysics OLYMPEX V1 1 UND CITATION II 2DC, 2DS, CDP, CPI PROBES, HVPS 2015-11-12 to 2015-12-19

N: 48.3535 S: 46.2209 E: -97.1811 W: -126.129

ASCII, Binary
GPM GROUND VALIDATION VAISALA CEILOMETER IPHEx V1 1 GROUND STATIONS CEILOMETERS 2014-05-06 to 2014-06-16

N: 35.56 S: 35.48 E: -83.04 W: -83.18

netCDF-3
GPM GROUND VALIDATION WYOMING KING AIR CLOUD MICROPHYSICS LPVEX V1 1 UWKA CDP, FSSP, GPS, LICOR GAS EXCHANGE SYSTEM, NEVZOROV PROBE, PMS 2D-C PROBE, PMS 2D-P PROBE, ROSEMOUNT PROBES 2010-09-11 to 2010-10-20

N: 61.5401 S: 59.6884 E: 26.5131 W: 19.8372

netCDF-3
GPM PR and TMI on TRMM Combined Convective-Stratiform Latent Heating Profiles L2 1.5 hours 5 km V07 (GPM_2HCSH_TRMM) at GES DISC 07 TRMM PR, TMI 1997-12-07 to 2015-04-01

N: 37 S: -37 E: 180 W: -180

GPM PR and TMI on TRMM Combined Convective-Stratiform Latent Heating Profiles L3 1 month 0.25x0.25 degree V07 (GPM_3HCSH_TRMM) at GES DISC 07 TRMM PR, TMI 1997-12-01 to 2015-04-30

N: 67 S: -67 E: 180 W: -180

GPM PR and TMI on TRMM Combined Gridded Orbital Convective-Stratiform Latent Heating Profiles L3 1.5 hours 0.25x0.25 degree V07 (GPM_3GCSH_TRMM) at GES DISC 07 TRMM PR, TMI 1997-12-07 to 2015-04-01

N: 37 S: -37 E: 180 W: -180

GPM PR on TRMM Gridded Orbital Spectral Latent Heating Profiles L3 1.5 hours 0.5x0.5 degree V07 (GPM_3GSLH_TRMM) at GES DISC 07 TRMM PR 1997-12-07 to 2015-04-01

N: 37 S: -37 E: 180 W: -180

GPM PR on TRMM Spectral Latent Heating L3 1 month 0.5 degree x 0.5 degree V07 (GPM_3HSLH_TRMM) at GES DISC 07 TRMM PR 1997-12-01 to 2015-04-30

N: 67 S: -67 E: 180 W: -180

GPM PR on TRMM Spectral Latent Heating Profiles L2 1.5 hours 5 km V07 (GPM_2HSLH_TRMM) at GES DISC 07 TRMM PR 1997-12-07 to 2015-04-01

N: 37 S: -37 E: 180 W: -180

GPM PR on TRMM Spectral Latent Heating Profiles L3 1 Day 0.5x0.5 degree V07 (GPM_3HSLH_TRMM_DAY) at GES DISC 07 TRMM PR 1997-12-07 to 2015-04-01

N: 67 S: -67 E: 180 W: -180

GRIP CLOUD MICROPHYSICS V1 1 NASA DC-8 CAPS, CDP, PIP 2010-08-13 to 2010-09-25

N: 40 S: 0 E: -71.5 W: -100

ASCII
GRIP GOES 13 OVERSHOOTING TOP V1 1 GOES-13 GOES-13 Imager 2010-08-07 to 2010-10-01

N: 43.9066 S: 1.2498 E: -37.9341 W: -118.039

KML
GRIP LANGLEY AEROSOL RESEARCH GROUP EXPERIMENT (LARGE) V1 1 NASA DC-8 APS, CNC, OPC, OPTSPEC, TSI-3562 Nephelometer, UHSAS 2010-08-24 to 2010-09-22

N: 34.7517 S: 12 E: -55.3183 W: -97.83

ASCII
High Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (HIWRAP) IMPACTS 1 NASA ER-2 HIWRAP 2020-01-25 to 2023-02-28

N: 48.658 S: 31.073 E: -64.894 W: -95.46

HDF5
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