- Description
Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) This is a precipitation estimate using an algorithm combining information from the GPM satellite constellation.
Current version: V06B
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- Recommended use
Early Run: Flood analysis and other short-fuse applications
Late Run: Daily and longer applications
Final Run: Research-grade product
- File format
- HDF5, NetCDF
- Location of data
- Main url (there are others) https://gpm.nasa.gov/data/directory
- Access restrictions
- Requires a free Earthdata account
- Spatial resolution, grid, or coverage
Full coverage for latitudes of 60N-60S, with partial coverage extending to 90N/90S
10 km/0.1 degree resolution
- Temporal resolution
Early Run: 30 min, 1 day
Late Run: 30 min, 1 day
Final Run: 30 min, 1 day, 1 month
- Starting and/or ending dates
- June 2000-Present
- Data latency
Early Run: 4 hours
Late Run: 12 hours
Final Run: 3.5 months
- Variables available
- Precipitation Rate (mm/hr), precipitationCal
- METplus Use Cases
- Link to METplus Use Cases for this dataset.
- Keywords
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Current Dataset: VxDataIMERG
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Data Labels: DataTypeGridded, DataLevelSurface, DataProviderNASA, DataApplicationPrecipitation