CloudSat
From variable 3.5
Summary of observation-based historical datasets with total precipitation available.
- reference Haynes et al. (2009)
- source
- CIRA/Colorado State University
- data type
- Satellite data
- spatial domain
- Between 80 N-S due to orbit - along track - product disseminated as tiles; retrieval not performed over land
- spatial resolution
- Nominally 2 km along track and 1 km across track. The radar has a native vertical resolution of 480 m.
- temporal coverage
- 2006-2011, 2011-2020 (daytime only operations, interrupted record)
- time step
- Monthly
- data format
- Binary; HDF
- comments
- Remotely sensed using W-band radar profiling. Sensitive to low intensity rain and snowfall events. Good high latitude coverage. Only reports rainfall rate over ocean, but reports snowfall rate and precipitation occurrence everywhere (land and ocean).