TRMM_GPMFormat/PR/KuPR L1B Received Power

Product Summary

TRMM_GPMFormat/PR/KuPR L1B Received Power dataset is the new (GPM-formated) TRMM product and replaces the old TRMM_1B21,1C21. It is obtained from the Precipitation Radar (PR) sensor onboard Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Core Satellite and produced by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
The most innovative of the five TRMM instruments, the PR is the first quantitative rain radar instrument to be flown in space. The major objectives of the PR instrument are as follows:
a. Provides a 3-dimensional rainfall structure
b. Achieves quantitative measurements of the rain rates over both land and ocean
When properly combined with TMI measurements, the Precipitation Radar (PR) data is instrumental in obtaining the height profile of the precipitation content, from which the profile of latent heat release from the Earth can be estimated. The rain rate is estimated from the radar reflectivity factor when the rain rate is small by applying conventional algorithms used for ground-based radar. For large rain rates, a rain attenuation correction is made using the total-path attenuation of land or sea surface echoes.
This dataset calculates the received power at the PR receiver input point from the Level-0 count value which is linearly proportional to the logarithm of the PR receiver output power. To convert the count value to the input power, extensive internal calibrations are applied, which are mainly based upon the system model, temperature dependence of model parameters and many temperature sensors attached at various locations of the PR.
The provided format is HDF5. The Sampling resolution are 5 km (horizontal) and 250 m (vertical). The current version of the product is Version 5A. The generation unit is one orbit.

Platform

TRMM

Sensor

PR

Coverage

Temporal Coverage

1997-12-08 to 2015-04-02

Spatial Coverage

Bounding Rectangle
(38.0°, -180.0°, -38.0°, 180.0°)

Resolution

5 km

Location

• GEOGRAPHIC REGION > TROPICS