GPM Ground Validation Daily Precipitation OLYMPEX V1

Description

The GPM Ground Validation Daily Precipitation Olympic Mountain Experiment (OLYMPEX) dataset consists of a single netCDF-4 data file containing estimates of daily precipitation, both rainfall and snowfall amounts, on a 1/32 degree spatial resolution grid covering the extent of the OLYMPEX field campaign region in the Olympic Mountains of the state of Washington. This data product was created for the GPM Ground Validation OLYMPEX field campaign. These VIC precipitation estimates are based on NOAA WSR-88D radar and rain gauge data incorporated in NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) local gauge bias-corrected radar quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) model (product Q3GC) and the Mountain Mapper QPE model (product Q3MM). The VIC hydrology model was used to invert the snow water equivalent (SWE) values to derive precipitation through adjustment of the precipitation-weighting factor on a grid cell by grid cell basis. The VIC precipitation data are available from October 1, 2015 through April 30, 2016.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) Quantitative Precipitation Estimation: Initial Operating Capabilities https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00174.1
21 Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX) Micro Article https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/micro-articles/olympic-mountains-experiment-olympex
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=gpmprecipolyx
21 Combining radar and rain gauge rainfall estimates using conditional merging http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asl.85
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FGPMGV%2FOLYMPEX%2FMULTIPLE%2FDATA301
21 National Mosaic and Multi-Sensor QPE (NMQ) System: Description, Results, and Future Plans https://doi.org/10.1175/2011BAMS-D-11-00047.1
21 OLYMPEX Field Campaign Collection DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/DATA101
33 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/gpmValidation/olympex/reconst_precip/doc/gpmprecipolyx_dataset.pdf
21 The Airborne Snow Observatory: Fusion of scanning lidar, imaging spectrometer, and physically-based modeling for mapping snow water equivalent and snow albedo https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.06.018
21 Estimation of precipitation over the OLYMPEX domain during winter 2015-2016 https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-17-0076.1
21 Independent Evaluation of Frozen Precipitation from WRF and PRISM in the Olympic Mountains https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-17-0026.1
21 The Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX) https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0182.1

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  • precipitation
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science

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