Imaging · dataset · 2025
TRMM Ground Validation Radar Reflectivity L1B 1 hour V7 (TRMM_1B51) at GES DISC
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The TRMM_1B51 product displays the existence of rain in the radar volume scan. 'Existence' is the fraction of the radar FOV which has measurable precipitation.
Description
The GV radar FOV is defined as a base scan (i.e., the lowest level sweep). Each product file has the Existence data of one site (not one radar) for one month.
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.
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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.
Links
Get the data
- Get a related visualization docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/GPM/browse/TRMM.logo.PNG ↗
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- This dataset's landing page disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/TRMM_1B51_7.html ↗
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- Download this dataset through a directory map disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/TRMM_GV_L1/TRMM_1B51.7 ↗
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- Download this dataset through Earthdata Search search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=TRMM_1B51 ↗
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- The dataset's project home page trmm-fc.gsfc.nasa.gov/trmm_gv ↗
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- pps.gsfc.nasa.gov /Documents/ICSVol4.pdf ↗
View the primary investigator's documentation for this dataset
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- The dataset's project home page trmm-fc.gsfc.nasa.gov ↗
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- View documentation related to this dataset gpmweb2https.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/tsdis/AB/docs/anomalous.html ↗
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Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/trmm-ground-validation-radar-reflectivity-l1b-1-hour-v… ↗
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Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=791be688-c6cc-403b-87cd-b0bcf67bb… ↗
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Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Engineering · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
- Inferred from text
- Video 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 10 field assertions
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| NASA Data Portal | 791be688-c6cc-403b-87cd-b0bcf67bbd54 | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].local:field:engineering | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:video | enrichment · data nasa gov | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
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| description | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | /notes |
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