SAFARI 2000 SSM/I GPROF 6.0 Precipitation Data, 0.5-Deg, 1999-2001

Description

The GPROF 6.0 Pentads data set contains 5-day (pentad) averages of the GPROF 6.0 Gridded Orbits. The GPROF(Goddard Profiling Algorithm) data set contains a suite of 9 products providing instantaneous, gridded values of precipitation totals for each granule of the SSM/I (Special Sensor Microwave/Imager) data over the roughly 14-year period July 1987 through the present. Even though there have been at least two satellites for the entire period, sampling is sufficiently sparse that the data are averaged for pentads, then the pentads are smoothed with a 1-2-3-2-1 time-weighting. The last two pentads are unevenly weighted since the last (or last two) pentads in the average are not yet available. Consequently, the last two pentads must be recomputed when the next pentad becomes available.The data set prepared for SAFARI cover the years 1999, 2000, and 2001.The main refereed citations for the data set are Kummerow et al. (1996)and Olson et al. (1999)

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Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F716
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/safari2k/climate_meteorology/GPROF_precip/
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/716
34 Browse Image https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/project/square/safari_logo_square.png
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/S2K/guides/s2k_GPROF.html
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/safari2k/climate_meteorology/GPROF_precip/comp/S2K_precip_gprofv6.pdf

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  • precipitation
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science

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