
MEaSUREs Precipitation Phase and Rate from Passive Microwave Observations and Earth System Models using Transfer Learning, Version 1
Data set id:
NSIDC-0804
DOI: 10.5067/L4S3PU4C9XU7
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Version Summary
Initial release
Overview
This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Program, contains estimates of precipitation phase (rain, snow, or clear) and total precipitation rate at approximately 5.1 km × 13.2 km resolution along the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager (GMI) S1 swath.
The data are generated from GMI brightness temperatures using the Transfer Learning of global Precipitation from Reanalysis data to Satellite observations (TLP-R2S) framework, a supervised machine learning algorithm that retrieves precipitation phase and rate by transferring prior information from atmospheric reanalysis data to satellite passive microwave observations.
Data files also include the GMI brightness temperatures and ancillary data from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Reanalysis v5 (ERA5) used to train TLP-R2S, plus precipitation rates from ERA5 and the Goddard Profiling Algorithm (GPROF) for comparison.
Parameter(s):
PRECIPITATION PHASE
PRECIPITATION RATE
Platform(s):
CloudSat
ECMWF ERA5
GPM
MODELS
Sensor(s):
CloudSat-CPR
DPR
GMI
NOT APPLICABLE
Data Format(s):
netCDF-4
Temporal Coverage:
- 7 April 2014 to 6 May 2025
Temporal Resolution:
- Varies
Spatial Resolution:
- 13.2 km
- 5.1 km
Spatial Reference System(s):
- WGS 84EPSG:4326
Spatial Coverage:
- N:69.41S:-69.42E:180W:-180
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
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