IMERG Global Precipitation Rates (New Colorbar)

  • Released Friday, October 2, 2015
View full credits

This movie shows IMERG liquid and frozen precipitation for the period June, 2015, through September, 2015.
This video is also available on our YouTube channel.

NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement mission has produced its first global map of rainfall and snowfall. The GPM Core Observatory launched one year ago on Feb. 27, 2014 as a collaboration between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and acts as the standard to unify precipitation measurements from a network of 12 satellites. The result is NASA's Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM data product, called IMERG, which combines data from all 12 satellites into a single, seamless map. The map covers more of the globe than any previous precipitation data set and is updated every half hour, allowing scientists to see how rain and snow storms move around nearly the entire planet. As scientists work to understand all the elements of Earth's climate and weather systems, and how they could change in the future, GPM provides a major step forward in providing the scientific community comprehensive and consistent measurements of precipitation.

Liquid precipitation (rain) colorbar

Liquid precipitation (rain) colorbar

Frozen precipitation (snow) colorbar

Frozen precipitation (snow) colorbar

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Friday, October 2, 2015.
This page was last updated on Thursday, December 19, 2024 at 12:05 AM EST.

Missions

This page is related to the following missions:

Series

This page can be found in the following series:

Datasets used

Note: While we identify the data sets used on this page, we do not store any further details, nor the data sets themselves on our site.