TRMM Ground Validation Radar Site Rain Type Totals Map L3 1 month 2 km V7 (TRMM_3A54UW) at GES DISC

Description

This dataset is part of the University of Washington TRMM Ground Validation products. Monthly rain accumulation cartesian grid based on 2A53UW. Units are mm. Min range is 17 km, max range is 150 km. Horizontal extent is 150x150km and resolution is 2km. Note that in the netCDF files, "alt" (altitude) is assigned the elevation angle of the lowest sweep (which is used to create baseUW) and "z_spacing" has no meaning. 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
34 3A54_BR.080101.KWAJ.7.PNG https://disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/TRMM_GV_L3/TRMM_3A54.7/2008/001/3A54_BR.080101.KWAJ.7.PNG
21 TRMM_3A54UW_7.html https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/TRMM_3A54UW_7.html
5 https://disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/TRMM_GV_L3/TRMM_3A54UW.7
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=TRMM_3A54UW
5 https://pmm.nasa.gov
21 UWproductsOnDAAC.html https://atmos.washington.edu/gcg/MG/KWAJ/UWproductsOnDAAC.html
21 GV.html https://atmos.washington.edu/gcg/MG/KWAJ/GV.html
21 anomalous.html https://gpmweb2https.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/tsdis/AB/docs/anomalous.html
0 The metadata's original source. https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1356506695-GES_DISC.iso19115

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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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