TRMM Ground Validation Radar Site Rain Rate Map L2 1 hour 2 km V7 (TRMM_2A53) at GES DISC

Description

'Radar Site Rain Map', is an instantaneous surface rain rate map in Cartesian coordinates with a 2 km horizontal resolution. At single radar sites, the map covers an area of 300km x 300km. For the multiple radar site in Texas, the map covers a region of 724 km x 568 km, and in Florida 512 km x 704 km. A key component of the TRMM project is the Ground Validation (GV) effort which consists of collecting data from ground-based radar, rain gauges and disdrometers. The data is quality-controlled, and then validation products are produced for comparison with TRMM satellite products. The four primary GV sites are: + Darwin, Australia; + Houston, Texas; + Kwajalein, Republic of the Marshall Islands; + Melbourne, Florida. A significant effort is also being supported at NASA Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) and vicinity to provide high quality, long-term measurements of rain rates (via a network of rain gauges collocated with National Weather Service gauges), as well as drop size distributions (DSD) using a variety of instruments, including impact-type Joss Waldvogel, laser-optical Parsivel, as well as two-dimensional video disdrometers. DSD measurements are also being collected at Melbourne and Kwajalein using Joss-Waldvogel disdrometers.

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Name Format Description Link
5 https://trmm-fc.gsfc.nasa.gov/trmm_gv/
5 https://trmm-fc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
5 https://disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/TRMM_GV_L2/TRMM_2A53.7
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=TRMM_2A53
0 The metadata's original source. https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1332654212-GES_DISC.iso19115
34 2A53_BR.081016.19.MELB.5.PNG https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/GPM/browse/2A53_BR.081016.19.MELB.5.PNG
21 TRMM_2A53_7.html https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/TRMM_2A53_7.html
33 ICSVol4.pdf https://pps.gsfc.nasa.gov/Documents/ICSVol4.pdf
21 anomalous.html https://gpmweb2https.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/tsdis/AB/docs/anomalous.html

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  • radar-reflectivity-rain
  • precipitation
  • earth-science-precipitation-atmosphere-liquid-precipitation-rain
  • atmosphere
  • earth-science-precipitation-atmosphere-precipitation-rate
  • liquid-precipitation
  • earth-science-radar-spectral-engineering-radar-reflectivity-precipitation
  • spectral-engineering-precipitation-rate
  • radar-atmosphere

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