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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 Datasets

Dataset Sort descending Version Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
NLDAS Secondary Forcing Data L4 Monthly 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_FORB0125_M) at GES DISC 2.0 Forcing-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-01 to Present

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

NLDAS Secondary Forcing Data L4 Monthly Climatology 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_FORB0125_MC) at GES DISC 2.0 Forcing-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1981-01-01 to 2020-12-31

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

NLDAS VIC Land Surface Model L4 Hourly 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_VIC0125_H) at GES DISC 2.0 VIC-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-02 to Present

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

NLDAS VIC Land Surface Model L4 Monthly 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_VIC0125_M) at GES DISC 2.0 VIC-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-01 to Present

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

NLDAS VIC Land Surface Model L4 Monthly Climatology 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_VIC0125_MC) at GES DISC 2.0 VIC-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1981-01-01 to 2020-12-31

N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125

NOAA Regional Surface Data (FIFE) 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS DRY BULB THERMOMETERS, WET BULB THERMOMETERS, ANEROID PRESSURE SENSOR, RAIN GAUGES, ANEMOMETERS 1985-07-02 to 1988-10-23

N: 40 S: 39 E: -95 W: -97

CSV
NPP Multi-Biome: Summary Data from Intensive Studies at 125 Sites, 1936-2006 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, FIELD SURVEYS SOIL SAMPLER, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 1936-01-01 to 2006-12-31

N: 71.31 S: -45.68 E: 146.27 W: -157.67

multiple
NRT AMSR2 L2B GLOBAL SWATH GSFC PROFILING ALGORITHM 2010: SURFACE PRECIPITATION, WIND SPEED OVER OCEAN, WATER VAPOR OVER OCEAN AND CLOUD LIQUID WATER OVER OCEAN 0 GCOM-W1 AMSR2 N/A HDF-EOS-5
NRT AMSR2 Unified Global Swath Surface Precipitation GSFC Profiling Algorithm V1 1 GCOM-W1 AMSR2 21 km netCDF-4; HDF-EOS5
NRT AMSR2 Unified Global Swath Surface Precipitation GSFC Profiling Algorithm V2 2 GCOM-W1 AMSR2 2021-10-01

N: 89 S: -89 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4 - HDF-EOS5
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