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lis-global-da-totalprecip·dataset

Global Total Precipitation

Total Precipitation - LIS 10km Global DA
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Maps total precipitation worldwide, the rain and snow falling across the land, on a 10-kilometre grid.

How it's made. Modelled by NASA's Land Information System, which folds satellite measurements into a global land-surface simulation.

How & where you'd use it. Supports weather, drought, and flood monitoring as well as water-cycle studies.

What's measured

lisglobaltotalprecip

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2002-01-02 → 2022-03-01
  • Spatial extent-179.95, -59.982, 179.997, 90
  • FormatsCOG

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

Gridded total precipitation (in kg m-2 s-1) from 10km global LIS with assimilation

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("lis-global-da-totalprecip")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).