Precipitation

Overview

JAXA has developed and operating the Global Precipitation Measurement/Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (GPM/DPR), the Global Change Observation Mission – Water “SHIZUKU” (GCOM-W), and the Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) utilizing the data of world meteorological satellites. GSMaP offers hourly global precipitation information for more than past 20 years and the information has been widely used for meteorology, disaster preventions, climate monitoring, agricultural monitoring, public health, educations and so on.

By using DPR, it is possible to visualize the structure of rain clouds in three dimensions.

Main Products

Precipitation
Extreme Rainfall

Data Distribution Site:

G-Portal
JAXA GLOBAL RAINFALL WATCH
JAXA Realtime Rainfall Watch
JAXA Climate Rainfall Watch
RIKEN Nowcast
3D RAINFALL WATCH
JAXA Realtime weather watch (NEXRA)
JASMES Portal
AMSR Viewer
JASMIN
JPMAP
JAGMAP
Today’s Earth
Tropical cyclones – JAXA/EORC Real-Time Monitoring
Tropical cyclones -JAXA/EORC Tropical Cyclone Database
TRMM×Google Earth™Lab.

Related satellites

Global Precipitation Measurement/Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (GPM/DPR)
Global Change Observation Mission – Water “SHIZUKU” (GCOM-W)
Global Observing SATellite for Greenhouse gases and Water cycle (GOSAT-GW)
Aqua/AMSR-E