NASA Scientists Research Global Precipitation
The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) is an element of the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) of the World Climate Research program (WCRP). It was established by the WCRP in 1986 with the initial goal of providing monthly mean precipitation data on a 2.5
This animation of global precipitation cycles through the climatology data for the twelve months of the year and then repeats the cycle twice.
Averaged monthly rainfall for February from 1979 through 2006.
Averaged monthly rainfall for March from 1979 through 2006
Averaged monthly rainfall for April from 1979 through 2006.
Averaged monthly rainfall for May from 1979 through 2006.
Averaged monthly rainfall for June from 1979 through 2006.
Averaged monthly rainfall for July from 1979 through 2006.
Averaged monthly rainfall for August from 1979 through 2006.
Averaged monthly rainfall for September from 1979 through 2006.
Averaged monthly rainfall for October from 1979 through 2006.
Averaged monthly rainfall for November from 1979 through 2006.
Averaged monthly rainfall for December from 1979 through 2006.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Hal Pierce, Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) NOAA Satellite and Information Service National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS) National Climatic Data Center http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/wmo/wdcamet-ncdc.html
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Animator
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientists
- Scott Braun (NASA/GSFC)
- David Bolvin (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Sunday, September 30, 2007.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
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3-hour Rainmap (3B4XRT) [TRMM and DMSP: SSM/I and TMI]
ID: 526This dataset can be found at: http://cics.umd.edu/~msapiano/PEHRPP/3b42rt.html
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GPCP Combined Precipitation Data Set
ID: 593
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