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GPM_3DPRD·v07·dataset

Rainfall stacked by altitude, daily (GPM radar, 0.25 deg)

GPM DPR Precipitation Profile 1 Day 0.25 degree x 0.25 degree V07 (GPM_3DPRD) at GES DISC
atmosphere NASA GES_DISC Level 3 active
In plain English

What it measures. Daily maps of precipitation that also describe how rain is distributed by altitude through the atmosphere, on a roughly 0.25-degree grid. It is a smaller subset of the full daily radar product.

How it's made. Comes from the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar on the GPM satellite, with estimates summarized into a daily gridded form.

How & where you'd use it. Lets researchers easily map daily rainfall and compare it with other satellite and ground measurements.

What's measured

ATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPORATMOSPHERE › PRECIPITATIONSPECTRAL/ENGINEERING › RADAR

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2014-03-09 → ongoing
  • Measured byGPM (DPR)
  • Processing levelLevel 3
  • Spatial extent-180, -67, 180, 67
  • StatusCOMPLETE

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

Version 07 is the current version of the data set. Older versions will no longer be available and have been superseded by Version 07. . The precipitation estimates in the 3DPRD product are a subset of those in the full daily 3DPR product; the retrieval estimates are the same. Since this is a subset, the product is smaller, and Level 3 DPR products present the user with summary information over daily and monthly time periods. These gridded products are in a convenient gridded form and can be used easily in comparisons with other satellite and ground data. The Level 3 DPR joint algorithm subsets precipitation estimates from the Level 3 daily products. In addition, it adds time information from Level 2 instantaneous data to give a date/time for the last measurement in each grid box. The product contains one 0.25 x 25 km grid with separate indices for the ascending and descending parts of the GPM orbit.

Get the data

gpm_3dprd_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="GPM_3DPRD",
    version="07",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from GES_DISC
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.