Late IMERG Monthly GIS-formatted Data

This is a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) landing page for an IMERG GIS product.  For a list of other DOIs associated with the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, please visit the following location:

https://pps.gsfc.nasa.gov/Documents/Master_List_of_PPS_Data_Products.html

 

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25966/ydwe-mn21

Data Type: 3IMERGHH_LATE_GIS_1MON

Data Set Long Name:Late IMERG Monthly GIS-formatted

Version Number: V07

Data Set Description: This near-realtime dataset provides, in a GIS-friendly format, the surface precipitation estimates and precipitation-phase information covering 1-month periods at 0.1-degree resolution from June 2000 to the present.  The parent of this GIS product is the half-hour IMERG HDF5 data product.  This GIS product is a zip file that contains two-byte TIFF files accompanied by ESRI WorldFile metadata.  The TIFF files contain scaled units of precipitation accumulation (millimeters) or the percent likelyhood that 100% of the precipitation in a particular gridbox fell as liquid or mixed phase precipitation (i.e., not 100% solid-phase precipitation). The grid covers the entire Earth, 90S to 90N and 180W to 180E although precipitation is not always estimated near the poles.

Data Access:

  1. PPS Storm Data Ordering System, https://storm.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/ Note: At this URL you may download the GIS file or the parent file, in HDF5 format, as well as geographically subset the HDF5 file.
  2. PPS Production Archive: https://arthurhou.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/
    Note: Prior to using a PPS FTP site for the first time, please register your email address with PPS here: https://registration.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/

Documentation

Associated Landing Pages:

Data Citation: Kelley, O. A., 2022: The IMERG multi -satellite precipitation estimates reformatted as 2 -byte TIFF files for display in a Geographic Information System (GIS). file format specification, Precipitation Processing System (PPS), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Available online at https://pps.gsfc.nasa.gov/Documents/README.GIS.pdf.

Contact: For more information about this data product, contact the Precipitation Processing System (PPS) Helpdesk at helpdesk@mail.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov.