DMSP SSM/I Daily Rainfall Imagery [NOAA/ESRL]
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/15.813

Summary
Gif images of retrieved rainfall (mm/hour) products computed (Ferriday
algorithm) daily at a spatial resolution of 0.25 x 0.25 degrees. Data are from
SSM/I instruments on DMSP, F10, F11, F13, and F14 for complete coverage.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 15.813

Citation
Example citation following ESIP guidelines (http://bit.ly/data_citation):

 NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL). 2007. DMSP SSM/I Daily Rainfall
 Imagery. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/15.813 Accessed 19 Oct 2021.

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 eol-datahelp@ucar.edu
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Acknowledgement
In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements,
please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as:

  Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * EPIC: Eastern Pacific Investigation of Climate
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/EPIC
 * VOCALS: VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/VOCALS
 * NAME: North American Monsoon Experiment
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/NAME
 * RICO: Rain in Cumulus Over the Ocean
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/RICO
 * IHOP_2002: International H2O Project 2002
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/IHOP_2002
 * SALLJEX: South American Low-Level Jet Experiment
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/SALLJEX
 * PACS: Pan American Climate Studies
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/PACS
 * BAMEX: Bow Echo and Mesoscale Convective Vortex Experiment 2003
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/BAMEX

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: raster
 * Frequency: daily
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Satellite

Platforms
 * DMSP F-10
 * DMSP F-11
 * DMSP F-13
 * DMSP F-14

Instruments
 * Special Sensor Microwave/Imager - SSM/I

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT > 24 HOUR PRECIPITATION AMOUNT

Documentation
 * SSMI.txt [7 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/datafile/nph-get/15.813/SSMI.txt

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 1997-05-02 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2002-11-03 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 45.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: -45.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -180.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: 0.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support <eol-datahelp@ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1

Additional contact information
 * author: NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1210
 * originator: Climate Diagnostic Center (CDC), NOAA
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/534

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/15.813?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/15.813?format=isotc211