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Megha-Tropiques — the India-France monsoon-water satellite

Megha-Tropiques tropical water cycle
atmosphere ISRO/CNES ISRO MOSDAC active
In plain English

What it measures. Rainfall, atmospheric humidity and the radiation balance across the tropics, with frequent passes over the monsoon belt.

How it's made. A joint ISRO-CNES (French) satellite in a low-inclination orbit that revisits the tropics many times a day.

How & where you'd use it. Studying and forecasting the monsoon and tropical rainfall systems. Via ISRO MOSDAC (registration).

What's measured

precipitationtropicalwater cyclemonsoonISROCNESrainfallhumidity

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2011-10-12 → ongoing
  • Spatial extent68, 6, 98, 37

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

India-France mission studying the tropical water cycle and energy budget — rainfall, humidity and radiation in the monsoon belt. Via ISRO MOSDAC (registration).

Get the data

megha-tropiques_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="megha-tropiques",
    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 ISRO MOSDAC
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.